Comments on: Doing a poll on a blog post

By: Michael Kelsey

Michael Kelsey — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:19:51 +0000

I didn’t like the way that the [Vote] button on the pollcode.com version (first) redirected you to their site. It makes the “View” button both redundant, and slightly misleading, since the existence of a “choice” whether to view results implies that the user can choose not to do so, which they cannot.

Both radio buttons (exclusive choices) and check boxes (multiple choices) have their place in polls. In your second example, since each of the four pairs consists of mutually exclusive choices, I would have coded it up as four pairs of radio buttons, one pair for each of the hypothetical photos.

In any event, I definitely like the idea of polls like this being embedded in the blog, rather than sending the reader off somewhere else (as Doodle and SurveyMonkey require).

By: Eric Lund

Eric Lund — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:46:44 +0000

Chad Orzel has had numerous polls on his blog in the past, using both radio button polls like the first example and some check box polls like the second, some quite serious and some even sillier than your obvious test. He uses a different provider (PollDaddy IIRC, but you’d have to check his archives to be sure). You might ask him about his experiences.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:46:20 +0000

How bad is that, though. I mean, it’s free. Are there other better alternatives you know of off hand? I’ll look around over the next few days.

By: NewEnglandBob

NewEnglandBob — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:09:38 +0000

After leaving a comment in the poll, one get this silly screen:

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