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How Many Polls Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?

How Many Polls Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?

2002-10-24 by Adrian Gill

I wrote:
> > >    If you mean the poll entitled - "Should we just keep on having
> > > polls until the moderators get the result they want?" at
> > >       http://groups.yahoo.com/group/logic-ot/surveys?id=993533
> > >    Well, since posting, it also has been moderated! LOL. And
> > > evidently taken seriously enough by someone to warrant being
> > > tampered with...

Jeremy Martin wrote:
> What you implied with your poll was silly...

   Ah, "silly" is moderated now, is it? Yet it was sensible
enough for you to append your own option, without consultation
or notification. Was it not patently obvious that _your_ silliness was
being lampooned? No, silly me, spoof polls are also moderated. 

> ...and you gave no option for people to disagree.

   Hmm, "No" is the customary way to refute a proposal. It was
offered. And it was my poll. Or can I add my own option to yours?  
Maybe we should have a poll to decide. And then another if we think
some of us might not have appreciated the irony.

> Any time a poll is edited all the votes are reset, but since no one
> had voted yet there was no harm in adding a fourth, fair option. I
> did not edit your (loaded) question at all.

   You altered the poll! An inoffensive little tease of a thing, doing
no harm to anyone (and unless you went to the L-OT Yahoo page,
no one knew it was even there anyway). For god's sake's, man,
Give It Up! Do you not have a day job? Have you really the time
manipulating this list to your idea of what isn't "silly/loaded" or
not "fair"?
___
Ade

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