> Most subreddits doing polls have people voting to remain open, so it really isn't in the interests of the communities to keep the subs closed.

I've seen this oft repeated, but never backed up. The only poll I've seen results from[0] was overwhelmingly to stay shutdown indefinitely.

On top of that, you're probably going to be getting into sampling bias with larger subs, since most users that care are purposefully avoiding the site trying to "starve" them and wouldn't even know about the polls.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/149o61f/should_rho...