Polls are worth a try though the quality will depend even more on the creator/submitter than in case of a regular submission.

Feature request for polls: a simple bar graph (esp useful for polls with a ton of options like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=127203) so that someone doesn't need to do this each time: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p3ZpyEuzg1jyMSQxC-NBM... for http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126923