Poll: Creating Polls Should Cost Karma

I'd extend this to posting any stories at all -- if posting a story cost a few points of karma, it would discourage the 'submit dozens of links and hope that one or two of them get voted up' approach which seems to be becoming increasingly common lately.

No, ideally people just wouldn't submit or vote up crappy submissions.

I think the problem is that it's easy to vote up quick amusing little things, but longer submissions that take effort to read, understand and evaluate have a bias against them, so crap tends to float on top.

Users who obsess about karma should lose karma :)

I don't think there is anything intrinsically wrong with polls, except when they push other submissions off the new page before enough people get a chance to vote on them. Maybe polls should cost karma only if the main thread doesn't get above a certain number of votes.

Creating polls should not cost Karma.

For me a poll may be a replacement for some of the Ask YC threads.

I like the way it is now but for those who are worried about karma ¿? maybe the best solution is not getting karma for submitting a Poll, of course that would need a better place to search for polls, should YC add a poll link to the navigation menu?

Now this was a good use of "let's go shopping!"

I think this might be a good idea but I'd say that it's too early to implement something like this. Let's wait and see if the poll submissions subside or if we realize that we're being overly conservative.

Then there is the danger of people creating pseudo-polls using the old "vote up if..." trick. Not sure how YC deals with those -- maybe the editors nip them in the bud?

I propose a form of "Instant Karma." Then we can all shine on.

But beware the posters with many accounts, for these "Karma Chameleons" just come and go.

4) Who really cares about karma, it's not a currency

That way, we can eliminate a lot of junk polls.

Number of front page items should expand to keep the number of non-poll items on the front page constant.

Imagine a world without Karma.

creating polls should allow you to vote only once

The comments so far are a mix of negative and positive about making this change now, but the voting is 20-3 in favor of the change.

I guess this is another case of the general issue that the people who write comments have different characteristics than those who hit the vote arrows.

How about an instant kill option with polls? People can send your karma to zero if they don't like it. That should solve the problem, of polls existing that is.