Snowflake Challenge #8: Poll the Delegates

[silveradept]

Challenge #8 asks us to engage with the journal and forum games of yesteryear.

In your own space, create a quiz or a poll (or tell us your thoughts about answering quizzes/polls).

In this specific case, "quiz" is being used in the "What [Z] are you?" kind of quiz that you might find in a magazine, or on Buzzfeed, or on various sites that want to sort you into various fictional factions or houses or figure out which character or role you would take on in the narrative. The ones that work by asking you about seemingly arbitrary things and produce a result that is supposedly insightful to you.

I did a couple of them back when they were in their most popular phase, but a rumor went about that the quiz sites were using the results for data mining and advertising and that seemed to stop a lot of the possible fun they could be if there was a less wholesome purpose behind all of it. (Stop ruining my fandom, money.) This was the time before I really got into fandom and really understood the purpose of the things as a way of bonding and showing off your fandom to others who might be interested and strike up a conversation with you. (In a forum, possibly, or in the guestbook of your own site or their site.)

Dreamwidth, like LiveJournal, has the option for paid and premium tier accounts to create polls, so if you're a supporter of have been gifted paid amount time, you can solicit the opinions of others on all sorts of things! One of the interesting uses of the poll I've seen is for an account to create a sort of ersatz kudos button with a one option poll that can be clicked and submitted. So, for your enjoyment, and to do the challenge bit, have a poll about arbitrary things.

Poll #28208 An Arbitrary List of Fandom Pairs

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31

View Respondents

Which of these arbitrary human-nonhuman pairings is the best?

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Calvin and Hobbes
13 (41.9%)

Phoebe and Marigold Heavenly Nostrils
1 (3.2%)

Menolly and her fire-lizard fair
4 (12.9%)

Link and Navi
1 (3.2%)

Lilo and Stitch
12 (38.7%)

Kudos?

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Kudos!
23 (74.2%)

Tickybox!
17 (54.8%)

They're checkboxes.
7 (22.6%)

Give me the tickies!
12 (38.7%)

No, they're too perilous.
9 (29.0%)

Comments

[goddess47]

I know Calvin and Hobbes the best, but those are fun choices!

And tickyboxes for the win! Fun!

Thanks for participating in Snowflake!

[silveradept]

Tickyboxes are very important to polls.

[pronker]

Short and sweet, I like it.

[silveradept]

Thanks. I didn't want it to go on very long.

[seleneheart]

Some day I will get the Calvin and Hobbes all grown up fic out of my brain and onto (digital) paper . . .

[silveradept]

Please do. There's so many adventures still awaiting them.

[linky]

Link and Navi have been a favorite of mine since I was a kid! I always wondered just where Navi went off too after the end of OOT. (The Calvin and Hobbes comics are so much fun too!)

[silveradept]

It's a good question about Link and Navi. Maybe back to the Deku Tree?

Calvin and Hobbes are a great comic. I'm very glad to have the complete collection.

[tsuki_no_bara]

that first question was hard! i went with calvin and hobbes mostly because i'm way more familiar with them than phoebe and her unicorn. an excellent bunch of choices, tho.

[silveradept]

Thanks. Phoebe and her Unicorn is a great strip as well.

[svgurl]

I went with the one I was most familiar with so Lilo and Stitch (and realized I had a Stitch icon on LJ but not here - sad)! I liked this poll. :D

[silveradept]

Glad you liked the poll! Lilo and Stitch is a good combination.