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How do I make suggestions for Yahoo Answers and what do you think of my suggestion?

I have a legitimate suggestion that I feel can greatly improve a certain aspect of Yahoo Answers and would like to know where I can post the suggestion. As for what do you think about my suggestion I am looking for positive commentary on what I managed to do right and constructive criticism on what clearly needs work or is hard to understand. Feel free to quote when commenting on something in particular. My suggestion is the following, it is about how the site handles polls. #1 way to improve polls: First of all for some reason with the current setup polls have their own little category in the corner out of site. This is disastrous because it means that all of the polls are out of sight and are less likely to be answered. Yes, it sounds like it makes sense to put polls in a category called polls but it really doesn't. The reason it doesn't is because all polls are polls but each poll can be about a different subject. For example: As you can see I am top contributor in Nintendo Wii. It is the section that I go to to answer questions. Let's say somebody makes a poll called: Do you call it the Wii Remote or Wiimote? It would go into the poll category and not the Nintendo Wii category so it wouldn't be getting the attention from the people it should get the attention from. Letting polls go into other categories is the first way to improve the system. You might say that some people only answer the polls so they stick to the poll section and would answer less if there were none but as I will explain in my next tip you can keep the poll category while putting every poll in the category they belong to. #2 Way to improve polls: Right now if you make a poll on Yahoo answers it is no different from a regular question, it is formatted the same way, it looks the same, it acts the same, it can be answered the same way, etc. but it should not be the same as other kinds of questions, a poll should be a poll. When you first click ask it should send you to a regular template for your question but next to where it says "What's your question" it would say something like "Would you like to make a poll?" and when you click the poll option it would send you to a slightly different template for making your poll and it would allow the poll to act differently. First of all polls would be automatically tagged by the system by writing POLL in big bold letters at the beginning of the title of the question or the title would be in a different colour or even something I haven't even thought of that clearly shows at first glance that it is a poll. Not only that but since it would be tagged as a poll all the polls could be easily grouped up into the polls category automatically for those who want to see the polls all together but remain in their own categories. Now, back to the template. The one thing that would be the same about the template is the title. You write the title the same way it is for every other question so that part is simple. What would be different is that instead of one big box that you can use to add details to your question there would be a few boxes a little bit smaller than the title box where you could write the various options for the poll. So back to my poll about Wiimotes. First I would fill in the title which would be "Do you call it a Wiimote or Wii Remote?". Then under that there would be the boxes that I described. In one I would write Wiimote and in another I would write Wii Remote and if I wanted I could write "other" in a third box. After all that the asker would chose a category as usual and press submit to post his question. When answering the poll the way I imagine it is that after you click to open the poll answer you see the poll laid out in the question field just like or similar to the daily poll on http://www.gamefaqs.com where you see the options and after you choose one you get a see a pretty graph comparing the various options. Polls should also be either completely anonymous or have an option to vote anonymously. #3 Way to improve polls: If it is a poll there should be no best answer. Polls by nature don't ever have best answers and they shouldn't here either. Best answers are non existent in polls and think about it. Let's say that I had my poll and 14 people voted Wiimote and 6 people voted Wii Remote what could there possibly be that would make one stand out more than the others? Best answers are a great reward for the other questions but are poison in polls especially to those who like to keep a high percentage of best answers. There,I'm done. I might have forgotten a point or two but that about sums up how I want the polls to be changed. I think that it could greatly improve the site. Thank you in advance to those who actually read the whole thing and thank you in advance for your helpful comments.

Public Comments

1. As to Suggestion #1, the polls need to stay or be eliminated altogether, not moved to the categories. The categories are for the asking of questions that require factual answers. If you moved the polls, you might as well call it Yahoo Polls, because all the real questions would go to another site, leaving nothing but the polls. Yahoo has them separated for a very good reason and if your suggestion was carried out, the site would end up closing altogether. Go to the YA home page, scroll down the right side menu and find the link for the suggestion board. Try your suggestion there.