FAQ: Poll Authors - Re-Push Requests

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At least for the time being, please do not ask for a re-push to change the link to Get Satisfaction. There are over 5,000 polls; there is not enough time right now to make such a substantial change.

Polls that are accurate, up to date
and complete are more fun and satisfying. It's hard to make a perfect poll and the quality has been tremendous, but errors do slip in.

What we are describing below is a process for supporting post launch poll revisions.

Note: if you are looking to close a no longer relevant poll, check this thread: FAQ: Poll Close Requests

If you're a poll author, I would encourage you to revisit your thread anddecide whether the post-launch suggestions (or any new ideas you have) are worth incorporating. Some things to look for.

At least for the time being, please do not ask for a re-push to change the link to Get Satisfaction. There are over 5,000 polls; there is not enough time right now to make such a substantial change.

Always OK Revisions
* Missing discussion board links
* Typos in descriptive text.
* Missing an obvious choice (an obvious option was overlooked at the time of poll publish)
These are usually ok to add, as long as it is to the END of the list. It is good form to add the date you added this choice to the description field forthat choice. That way someone looking at the results will not be surprised this obvious choice has so few votes compared to the original entries.

Sometimes OK Revisions
* Missing/weak descriptive text.
Important! Do not change the feel of the poll. If your poll was for favorites,it must stay that. If it's a worst poll it must stay that. Does this make sense? Otherwise you're changing historic votes. That is bad karma. Adding alittle color or description that keeps the feel of the poll is ok.
* Changing A Poll Title
Mostly discouraged, except for adding a question-mark if appropriate.
* Updating a Poll Due to New Information.
A new creditable entry, not due to an oversight comes up (e.g. a new release).We would generally discourage this if the poll has more than a few hundred votes. You maybe should consider a new poll?
* Fixing a image for character polls

Very Rarely OK Revisions
* Deleting a Choice
* Re-Arranging and Order of A Choice
* Re-pushing to Replace Valid Options Without Votes
These used to be impossible, but they are rarely OK. It is allowable in the case they do NOT affect any live votes and the duplicate choice and ALL items following it in the list have ZERO votes. If you have any doubt, please post to your original thread before making this change; if you do it incorrectly, you will never be able to update your poll again!

How to Proceed

If you are the author and want your poll re-pushed, make the changes to your original list in accordance to the instructions above, then reply to this post with the URL of the poll. This gives us (and other users) a chance to see these in a consolidated place and not hunt through threads. If you are not the poll author, you must contact the author by private message or the poll thread (or one our poll admins may be able to help you make a case).

A re-push request on this thread will be considered if formatted as follows

Ensure your reply incorporates the Poll title in the title of the post.

    Poll Title: O',brother,sister, who art thou

    Poll URL: http://www.imdb.com/poll/wvdPChk96q8/

    List URL: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls059040806/

    Reason: Fixing capitalization in title (add much detail as you like)

Poll board members, please feel free to comment on the proposed revision and offer your support or rejection of the change.

It would be reasonable to cross post to the original poll suggestion thread, but this is optional.

Note 1: here's a useful trick. Can't guarantee this will work forever but it works now. If you want to find the list from a poll, substitute the word"list" for "poll" in the URL and the list id will come up.
e.g. http://www.imdb.com/poll/wvdPChk96q8/ -> http://www.imdb.com/list/wvdPChk96q8/ will 'automagically' transform to http://www.imdb.com/list/ls059040806/

-hb

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Transitioning to Get Satisfaction presents a number ofissues, not the least of which is that all legacy polls no longer have validlink backs. Fortunately, the link backs which go to the IMDb message boards arere-directed to: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/categories/imdb_imdb_poll

At least for the time being, please do not ask for a re-push solely to change the link to a thread on Get Satisfaction. Please do not ask to correct minor formatting problems to justify updating the link back.There are close to 5,000 polls which went live when the IMDb message boards were available; there is not enough time right now to make such a substantial change. The poll administrators do not have the capacity to update the link backs on the majority of these legacy polls. Exceptions will be made on a case by case basis. These exceptions include but are not limited to:

  • Specific requests to update a poll from the IMDb Editors
  • Updating polls to add new relevant options
  • Updating polls to better reflect current information
  • Correcting typos in descriptive text
  • Replacing missing images or character pages
If there's still any confusion as to which polls will be re-pushed, please ask so that we can clarify this for everyone as soon as practical.
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Hi, Dudes. :D
I'm missing images in my poll:
Title: Scores That Instantly Bring Movies to Your Mind
List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls095906709/
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/UnAsM_Xbr_k/
Options missing images replaced: 1, 12, 29

Thank you! :D
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Done.
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Title: Dog Days of Summer

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls080721036/

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/20bsgaBCryw/

Reason: Added a new entry - Midsommar (2019) | Don't know how I missed it. :(

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Done.
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Dan, you keep beating me by about an hour. I'm so sorry. 
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Ruby,

I'm just making up for all the times that you and the other admins re-pushed polls.
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You're too generous, Dan, and I think the only one who needs to make up for anything is me, as I've had awful timing with re-push requests over the last few months. If only I could rig something to let me know about new requests when I'm not online... : )
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Done.
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2nd Annual Multi-verse eating competition
https://www.imdb.com/poll/4jUw2ASScXE/
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls080938927/

Fixed an options name
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Done. 
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Most Beautiful Wedding Dress on Television (Part 2)
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls041998873/
https://www.imdb.com/poll/DUae35mwvM4/
Replaced a missing image (#22)
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Done.
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Title: Top Rated Movies on IMDb TV

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls080133803/

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/RQXdetkEA-c/

Reason: Fixed an unsupported Unicode character. Sorry :(

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BONAFIDE BOSS ⭐️,

Done.

Out of curiosity, what Unicode character is not supported by the poll software?
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Dan Dassow,

Actually, the Unicode character I just removed was supported in the poll.

There is some issue with the featured poll in the IMDb poll page(s).

This is the Unicode character I removed from this poll: [ ❖ ]

If you visit one of my other polls, IMDb Poll Board: Top 10 International Films, you'd see, I've used the same Unicode character in there, and it looks perfectly fine.



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Sorry, I'm editing this reply a little bit.

At first, I thought there's something wrong with the IMDb polls page but no, there's some issue with the featured poll in the IMDb polls page.



As you can see here, the Unicode character works on IMDb polls page.

(I never noticed it before because no poll of mine with that Unicode character was ever featured in the poll page.)
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BONAFIDE BOSS ⭐️,

The poll software pre-dates some updates to list software. It doesn't always handle Unicode and other extended character sets properly. I've been tempted to create a test poll that exercises the extended character set so that IMDb's technical team can update the poll software to properly handle extended character sets.
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Oh, that'd be very helpful.

Btw, this is a different topic, but I'd like to bring it up anyway.

If you remember, there was a problem with IMDb lists not accepting some Get Satisfaction URLs in the link markup.

That is because the system gives priority to the default markup "codes."

Meaning:

- As you already know some of the shortcuts to mention IMDb titles, names, companies, etc., by using their const code/ID, which looks something like [link=tt0068646].

So when a URL has a few specific letters like "tt", "nm", and the most common "co" (which is used for companies), the system tries to detect the company const-ID instead of the actual URL.

And the only way to escape it is if the URL has "/" (slash) before the const.



I knew the reason of this problem when y'all were discussing it on that thread but didn't reply there 'cause the author doesn't want me to comment on their posts.

Anyway, I discovered this problem when I started using the color markup on my IMDb lists.



Out of all these color markups, the only one that does not work is Black. This is what happens if you try to use it:



Seems like "bla" is used for something else.

It's not much and maybe you already know about them but I thought I should let you know.

Oh and one last thing about the Unicodes, IMDb lists and polls (not the poll page) support all the non-colored Unicode characters.

A few examples:


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I should split this discussion into a separate thread.
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FROM ED:

Jessica asked for a repush here to replace a duplicate.

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls099775753/
Poll: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-best-escapee

Replace option #15 with Ilsa from Cassablanca. It is dated.

Sorry about the inconvenience.

Thanks
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Ed also contacted me via my blog.

Done.
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Title: Sushant Singh Rajput - A Rising Star

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/3HNHBfHUhlw/

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls080546583/

Reason: Added a new entry - Dil Bechara (2020) | New release

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Title: Face-Off: Charlie Chaplin vs. Rowan Atkinson

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/biIYsvS4lu4/

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls092504184/

Reason: Fixed a missing image [ #2 ]
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Done.
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Peter,

Very sorry I forgot to remove the "Vote here" link.



Could you please re-push it again? Thank you and really sorry.
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Done.
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DC,

Done.
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Title: Indian Films With Most Votes

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/AtwGNM0ifSo/

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls092650393/

Reason: New entry - Dil Bechara (2020) | New release