HN Poll Feature
Comments primarily suggest or remind users to use Hacker News's built-in poll feature (newpoll) for opinion gathering instead of regular posts or questions, including links and mentions of karma thresholds.
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Is there a poll you can link to?
Seems we got a little poll going here.
Isn't there a poll function on HN?
Why don't you create a poll using some web tool so people can answer? That'd be interesting.
This is not how you do polls on HN.
HN has built in polls, please use those: http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
You should make a poll about that.
Post a strawpoll, see the data, otherwise nobody will believe you.
Is there a link to the actual poll or its content?
This should be a poll.https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll