I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.
If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.
The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!'
There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.
On red carpets, as people throw questions at you, you try and answer as quickly as possible.
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