I can edit poll answers? Cool. Not a feature I think I'd ever use, but neat anyway.
Anyhow, regarding polls encouraging or discouraging discussion, I think it depends very much on the content of the poll. A fairly simple poll (One question with 3 or 4 possible answers) I don't think is likely to encourage discussion of any kind. A longer one, especially one with a text box, is more likely, in my opinion, to get people wanting to explain their answers. (This poll is case in point.) I, myself, am neither more nor less likely to comment on an entry with a poll, considering I comment a rather ridiculous amount as is.
S for clicking on LJ cuts, it very much depends on the promised subject matter. In your journal, I click on most, because the promised articles catch my eye, or I want to read the latest "Ana is cute!" story. On other journals, I may avoid it because I know the only thing under that cut is 30 quiz results, and I really don't care to see those. Links are the same way. (Yep, I click on the majority of your posted links - you really do find the best articles!)
Crossposting can be annoying, but sometimes the only way to ensure a post that needs to be seen is seen. I'll tolerate it when it's to related communities with dissimilar readership. Por posting it in a wide range of communities (such as ones where there is great reader overlap and/or completely unrelated subject matter), that post had better have pretty high importance (warning of danger to come, things like that.).
And as a note, I always love seeing what you put as the last poll question. X3
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Anyhow, regarding polls encouraging or discouraging discussion, I think it depends very much on the content of the poll. A fairly simple poll (One question with 3 or 4 possible answers) I don't think is likely to encourage discussion of any kind. A longer one, especially one with a text box, is more likely, in my opinion, to get people wanting to explain their answers. (This poll is case in point.) I, myself, am neither more nor less likely to comment on an entry with a poll, considering I comment a rather ridiculous amount as is.
S for clicking on LJ cuts, it very much depends on the promised subject matter. In your journal, I click on most, because the promised articles catch my eye, or I want to read the latest "Ana is cute!" story. On other journals, I may avoid it because I know the only thing under that cut is 30 quiz results, and I really don't care to see those. Links are the same way. (Yep, I click on the majority of your posted links - you really do find the best articles!)
Crossposting can be annoying, but sometimes the only way to ensure a post that needs to be seen is seen. I'll tolerate it when it's to related communities with dissimilar readership. Por posting it in a wide range of communities (such as ones where there is great reader overlap and/or completely unrelated subject matter), that post had better have pretty high importance (warning of danger to come, things like that.).
And as a note, I always love seeing what you put as the last poll question. X3
That was long! :D;