Polls are regularly run in the busy cooler thread
Locking down an informal poll that carries no prizes with many rules and writing in the first person as if this is sanctioned by Jude is, off putting. That is meant constructively. If it is a fun poll then make it (appear) fun, please and remove all the unnecessary ring fencing
Thank you for the constructive comments.
As you are aware, the word "official" does not appear on the thread, as this poll has not been officially commisioned by Head-Fi, and if it were, members of Head-Fi staff would be responsible for it. In any event the phrase used on this thread is, Head-Fi Members' Poll (to denote individuals who are members of Head-Fi.Org) as they are the only ones elegible to vote. My understanding is that copyright on Head-Fi remains with the writer of a post, not the owners of Head-Fi.Org. Thus until such time that Head-Fi choses to organise a poll, we are individually responsible for what we write.
On the question of "fences", you may be aware that fairness is percieved, not necessarily only that which transpires (the facts may appear diffrent depending on where you stand). In a situation where people feel (rightly or wrongly) others are not being fair, they react. Hence the rules, which are intended to ensure that no one feels that another person is, for example, writing a list of IEMs they have not heard or that they have been enticed to list those IEMs for some benefit, whatever that might be. I have not even touched on simple respect for one another, which can go out the window without a "fence" (forgive my mixed metaphors).
Your words: "
If it is a fun poll then make it (appear) fun, please and remove all the unnecessary ring fencing". The question of whether a "fence" is necessary can only be determined if there were no "fence". That would also be after the unwanted event. If that hapened, my honest view is that someone else, if not you, would tell us, "you should have had rules". The extent of the sanction, should someone beak the rules, is that that individual's vote will not counted. In my view that sanction is not life or death, so let us see it in that context.
Yes, the intention is fun, so I hope you have fun, irrespective of the "fence. I appreciate the polite manner in which you make your point and I hope I have reciprocated in like manner.
On behalf of the Poll Team.
Will revise
