JFF: Polls/Topics - how do they come to you, when do you do them?

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I have a .txt document that I make notes on when I have an idea for a suggestion. I started it in July of 2017, Usually when something comes to me I try to make it as soon as I can, but things get left by the wayside. Or it's not the right time. (It's about a title that's not coming out for a year, or it's related to a holiday that is six months ago.) Or I start something and get tired of it or find it's too difficult. Maybe I'll come back and do it eventually.

The list has more than 800 ideas on it. I wonder how many of them I will even build and suggest? And out of those how many will be published.

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So, how to do you to "it"?
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I don't really have a method, when watching something or reading something or simply letting my mind wander I get an idea. If it sticks with me a couple of days I start researching and if I find it possible then I suggest it.

It's not the best as I only make a poll suggestion once or twice a month but I have never worked on making up suggestions I do them by inspiration.
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While going through the data base I'll come across a movie or actor or a quote or........almost anything and my mind runs away and I ponder a thought that sometimes blossoms and sometimes not. Sort of like a maze. You are searching for a way out. If you find the way out you have the basis for a poll. Get trapped......NO POLL!
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Usually after I watch a movie or TV show and remember some similarities with something I watched before.


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It depends. I'm seemingly quite chaotic in that regard: sometimes I do hand-written notes which I then turn in the suggestion and  sometimes I just start it right away in the list. 

Recording ideas somewhere is a good idea (hm). I have a hand-written notebook just for feature film ideas and since I have more then 280 of those... I really need some updates done to it and, maybe, a bigger notebook. 
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I have a hand-written notebook just for feature film ideas and since I have more than 280 of those

Me, too.  :)  I scribble down ideas for movies/shows, which will never come to anything, I just like exercising my imagination.  I come up with some great pitches, though, and it makes me wonder how all these Hollywood writers can come up with are cheesy, predictable, overdone movies.  :/  :)
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Some time ago I used the same method as you but now I'm using Google keep to take notes because it syncs both my phone an pc.
Currently have over 300 notes and have no idea what most of those are about. (I usually take notes about everything that comes to my head, not only poll ideas.)

I get ideas mostly while I'm bathing, I don't know why. But I think water has some effect on me. :D
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The list has more than 800 ideas on it.
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Post your list and have others vote on them ? ?


Look and see what is a popular topic and what isnot ? ?

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/faq-summary-statistics
FAQ: Summary Statistics
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2018-09-23T02:29:10+00:00
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You don't make polls do you? I don't think I have ever seen you make a poll. She want's to know how you think up a poll. You personally. Not statistics. Have you made one, and how did you think it up? Thanks Act1. Cheers...
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I do not do polls - who cares what I think about this and that ?!?

I sometimes offer something for the list - usually wrong - as uno...


There is a category for imdb polls

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/categories/imdb_imdb_poll

But they get mixed up with everything else on the ALL list

Many here only do polls ? ?

IMDb should create

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb_poll

to keep a away from FAQs about IMDb data etc

Ask Dan ? ?

and what's that others guys name Col something ? ?

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All means just that. All Conversations Here's the poll section.
2018-09-23T03:11:37+00:00
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Here is where you need to be...https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/categories/imdb_imdb_contentdata_issues




Hope this helps you. Cheers



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You too have problems reading

Polls should be completely different location

and not mixed in with "How do I add my name and credits  to IMDb ?"

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2018-09-23T03:26:52+00:00
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No, I'm just being helpful like you. I'm doing the exact same thing. Hope that helps you. Cheers
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Please Add Link to Polls FAQ to Community Home // All Categories // Services // IMDb Poll 

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/faq-so-you-want-to-make-an-imdb-poll-heres-how-c1psxy7p2yrat

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Posted Aug 17 2019
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Please Add Link to Polls FAQ to Community Home // All Categories // Services // IMDb Poll 

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/faq-so-you-want-to-make-an-imdb-poll-heres-how-c1psxy7p2yrat

by  Dan Dassow, Champion
Posted Aug 17 2019
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So? How do I (others) formulate polls? 19/20 (being a conservative calculation) of my suggestions, there is at least 1 or more options belonging to "I adore ___________" category. It's rare (and they turn out to be the least favorite of my polls/poll suggestions) when I try to make an opportunist poll based on something popular I have no interest or (worse) even dislike... (unless I found a way to Riff the Hell out of it with a negative slanted poll as opposed to which ___ is your favorite/positive slanted poll).

I prefer finding ways to make lists that aren't shotgun blasted (somewhat random and no parameters) hyperbolic lists of films, actors, etc... that basically ask which of these _____ is the best/favorite...? Though sometimes, my suggestions are (eventually just) that ... but not worded in such obvious manners.

I don't keep ideas around ... if I lose faith in them or lose interest in them. I usually delete them. And only recently decided to go around through my long list of existing lists and now stumbled onto several polls ... that I started but actually forgotten to follow through populating them or just deleting them if I can't remember what the hell they were supposed to be about (as many just have a title and no question) in the first place. You'll likely see some lists I made in 2015 that I'm now pushing forward for the first time here.

Now that I can sign into the getsatisfaction forum at work (whereas I had been shut out IT wise for a span of a couple of years), I am back in full tsarly swing. Of course, my polls are barnburners that can go viral on the IMDb front page... I will keep on dropping these weird ((allegedly)) original suggestions until the inevitable heat death of the universe.
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I can get ideas at any time; out, at home, even at night when I'm almost asleep.  ;)  I don't write them down, because if the idea is good enough, it will stick with me until I have time to get online and start the process.  It may take time, because life happens and that always comes first, but I will finish the list finally and post it on GS.  I find that I push out more in the winter when the weather is nastier, so there's not much else to do but sit inside.  :)  
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