Regarding spam, it's possible but only if someone has an interest in doing it.
Forum have a lot of spam (specially forum phpBB like this one, because they are a giant target. I mean that there are millions of phpBB forums so spambots can target them very easily to create spam content. Which has the goal of referencing some websites.
A poll wouldn't give the possibility to reference bad websites so shouldn't be target of spambots. It could still happen of course, if someone wants to force through his ideas but that feels rather extreme no?
And yes it doesn't mean that the forum doesn't hold the last decision anyway. Just a way to probe general feeling.
sliptonic wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 2:46 am
The understanding that people have about the questions are too disparate. Imagine that 100 random users think something is good and wmayer thinks it's bad. Are you going with the majority?
Yes but if it is something that wmayer think is bad it wouldn't make it to the poll in the first place. It'd be more in good-good situations.