Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset

[greenoaks]

Send a pm to all voters when a poll is reset


Concise description:

• When a poll is restarted a pm should be automatically generated and sent to every voter informing them of the reset and providing a link to the thread

Specifics/Details:

• as above

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• it will help keep voters informed of changes to topics they have an opinion on
• possibly increase ongoing participation in polls

[blakebowling]

This would actually be fairly complicated to do, as a reset works as a poll being deleted, then re-created. A whole new set of functions would have to be written.

[TheFissk]

sounds difficult... its only a niche option...

so says the ignorant

[wiztow]

What's the point just do a new poll? People can vote on that one if they want then.

[TheForgivenOne]

What's the point just do a new poll? People can vote on that one if they want then.

Because some user's don't know if a new poll has been started. If a poll is restarted, old stat's are lost.

[greenoaks]

What's the point just do a new poll? People can vote on that one if they want then.

Because some user's don't know if a new poll has been started. If a poll is restarted, old stat's are lost.

and as sometimes a poll could have a few hundred votes, informing everyone the options have changed could really speed things up rather than have them drift back in over weeks or months.

[trapyoung]

Don't write a poor poll in the first instance. There are enough pm's sent out that clog inboxes, just update the thread's subject line if a poll is added or reset.

[TheForgivenOne]

Don't write a poor poll in the first instance. There are enough pm's sent out that clog inboxes, just update the thread's subject line if a poll is added or reset.

It isn't a poor poll? Let me ask you, how are we supposed to update a poll in the future, when certain options have either been implemented or suggested?

And we have updated the Subject line, but guess what? There is a significant dropoff in voters after the reset. I remember one case going from 150~ voters to about 20-30. Some users only pop into Suggestions once or twice, and vote if they like the idea, then never return.

[Qwert]

well sound like interesting sugestion, but from now, after few years,you will forget that you even sugest these. I think that everybody need to stop posting sugestions, so that we can give lack time to implement a large number of submited sugestions, who are full in submited forum, who are waiting from 2006-2007-2008 and etc years. When we clear situation in these forum, then we can fill with new sugestions.

[rdsrds2120]

I don't think that the work involved to get this done would be worth the result, but I do agree that it could be useful! Doesn't look like this suggestion is going to make it, good luck otherwise!

-rd

[greenoaks]

I don't think that the work involved to get this done would be worth the result, but I do agree that it could be useful! Doesn't look like this suggestion is going to make it, good luck otherwise!

-rd

it was the reset of the Which medal would you like to see next? poll that got me thinking of this.

i don't know the work involved, just thought i'd throw it out there.