Hi everyone. The New Forum Poll was temporarily closed down until we could review who voted on the poll and take action when we discovered that people who hadn’t posted here in a very long time came back to vote for one of the Requests featured in the polls. We’ve completed our review and the poll will be reopened, but we’re closing it early and we’ll be adding one forum that had enough legitimate votes from active posters to be added here.
As we state in the
New Requests Guidelines here, we don’t want people voting for boards unless they actually intend to post on those boards, because it would be pointless to add boards that hardly anyone posts on. As it is, we’ve relaxed many of the requirements to add boards here because people don’t seem to want to make the effort to vote for the boards they want added here, but contacting people who haven’t posted here in years and asking them to come back just to vote for a board that they most likely will never post on is wrong and it won’t be allowed.
We can and do check who’s voted to make sure that the people who vote to add boards here are active posters here and that they’ve participated in the campaign to add the board that they’ve voted for, and it’s very easy to check to see if someone who’s voted to add a board has posted here recently, and if they haven’t then their vote will be disqualified.
We understand that people want to see new boards added here so they can discuss a topic that interests them, but having people that haven’t posted here in years come back just to vote to add a board that they most likely will never post on defeats the purpose of what we’re trying to do here, which is add boards that people want to post on.
Please feel free to contact me or Johnnie if you have any questions about this.
Thank you.
Lindsay and Johnnie
