I haven't liked the past two polls, for different reasons, but it seems that the polls in the past served to better understand players interests. The previous poll was simply a trivia poll. I could have looked up the answers, but without doing that it wasn't as if I could find them out otherwise. It also doesn't tell me or Jagex much about other players. The current poll is better on that front, but is very uninformative, and the answers seem a bit one-sided.
Some useful poll questions have been things like "what do you do when you first log on?" and the like. It might also be good if the content team suggested more polls to get a vague reading on players' interests and reactions-- this might bring about better ideas, or at least help to minimise the inevitable complaints seen on the forums with any update.
But, if they can do nothing else, the polls should at least be more interesting. Trivia and impossible hypotheticals aren't really.
06-Jul-2010 23:35:22