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Introducing Topix Polls

Posted by emily at 2:17 PM

I've got an opinion and I mean to use it. How about you? How about your readers?

Late last night, Topix launched an awesome new feature. POLLS!

Creating your own poll is easy as pie. (Apple or Cherry? See, it¹s fun!).

1. On the right side of each Topix News page, you will see a Featured Poll box. Click the Create a Poll link at the bottom.

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2. Click Create a Poll on the Forum & Polls page associated with your newspage.

Next, fill in the form with your question and up to 10 choices, then click Create Poll. That¹s it!

Topix users have gone bananas voting and creating their own polls, making over 600 polls and voting more than 43 thousand times in the first 20 hours. While anyone on Topix can create a Poll, we've given Editors a little extra power.

You have the ability promote any poll from the forum to the Featured Poll box on your Newspage. See that Feature this Poll link in the voting box? Click that link to send the poll to your News page. Once a poll is featured, you can choose to stop featuring it at any time.

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We've been having a lot of fun with polls at Topix Headquarters and we're excited to watch you guys run with this.

Now, go forth and poll!

Comments (4)

On October 6, 2007 1:44 PM, Ranjith Wijewardene said:

Zong;-) full marks to Topix… you have done an excellent job explaining the poll. Thanks and Bravo! Bravo! ... to all!

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On October 6, 2007 4:31 PM, jolsen said:

Polls quickly drop out of sight on the popular forums. Any chance the polls could be split from "Forum & polls"?

On November 16, 2007 12:12 AM, Canada Editor said:

Yes it's that Pain in the @ss Canada Guy as We were noted by 1 of Your Good Ship Lolly Pop Crew email's , Yes We Digress

any How, here's an example Going on 1 level from where You Graciously got Us to Go already Thank You

If a Reader starts a Good Pool idea in the Forum

Can We Pull it into a Poll without Too much trouble to you

Like We Already Do by way of Posting a Forum Topic to New ?

We've provided the Link for a Direct Example by Clicking on Our Name above

Cheers

On November 19, 2007 3:21 AM, Redoubt said:

The poll feature is really great but the character space for the poll title (or question) is kind of restrictive. Any way we can stretch this out a bit so poll questions can be made a little more descriptive?

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