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Originally Posted by Catlady
In all this verbiage, I seen nothing at all to suggest a reason for the names of the voters in the poll to be public. Nothing at all.
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Over quite a number of non-MR forums I have never seen any good reason advanced as to why a forum poll should be public and in my experience they are generally not public (and the demand is that they be non-public). I have to wonder why there is a desire for publicity.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
And, once again, I will not vote in a public poll.
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I also never vote in forum public polls. In my case it is nothing to do with wider internet privacy issues but all to do with managing the extent of one's exposure to the locally disaffected.
If I were to vote in a non-public poll, then if someone wished to know if and how I voted they could always ask me; whether they got told or not would depend on my knowledge of the demeanor of the person asking. However, I would be surprised if even one or two ever did ask, if indeed anyone did at all (I have never been asked after private polls in non MR forums in which I have been more active than these ones); which then gets back to what is it that is driving the desire of some for publicity?
So Catlady I hope you feel you are not so alone now. I will not be voting either.