I took part in another web poll today. This one was on the Vancouver Sun website and asked whether I thought the Olympics 2010 organizing committee was playing fair by buying up anti-Olympic domain names.
I find these polls difficult to resist. One click and you've had your say. But do they serve any useful purpose? They're hardly scientific, there's almost never any follow-up (tomorrow, the Sun will have a different poll and no-one will ever know the final results of today's poll - or care) and they're open to manipulation - I've often received "urgent" emails from people telling me to go to a particular site and vote on an issue. But why? Voting will have no impact and the results will disappear into the ether. And every time you submit, you get at least one more cookie, and maybe more, put on your hard drive.
But just like potato chips, you can't resist having just one more...
Posted by wetcoast at July 12, 2003 03:23 PM