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I just added the names that were put forward in the original Ask HN post. I've added Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer to the poll options.

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I can understand that you were excited to be the one to create the poll, but I think you did a very poor job of it.

By the time you added the most recent names to the poll (22 minutes after creating it) at least one name already had 100+ votes.

You've also inexplicably put Narendra Modi on there (misspelled) even though he's not in tech.

It's not inexplicable including Narendra Modi, he just put all the names down that were in the original thread. The original thread didn't specify tech as being important.

Adding additional names because somebody else asked for it is hardly a major issue, it's just the nature of HN polls - there's no time to do a nomination phase then voting because if you don't act straight away, you're not going to get on the front page and nobody will vote.

(Although this seems to have been flagged off anyway...)

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