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In my eyes polls should be subject to contingent moderation and appropriation. Any poll, if it is to be held responsible for decision-empowering en-par the community desire and reflect accurately in its best interest should account for:

- 65/70% majority vote.
- The results should be kept private until the poll reaches its deadline.
- The options given should be accompanied with crucial information in the OP to help reflect assertiveness in the voting choice of the user-base.

An example would be:
- I open up a Poll.
- Provided information is to be found on the OP (Original Post).
- I set up a date after which the poll shall be closed and votes shut down.
- As this date is reached, the poll results are made public.
- An accurate (or the most accurate one can get) is reached.

Notes: Why keeping the poll results private? Simple. It will force users to opt for themselves as opposed to following the trend and/or letting the current polls (i.e:. Let's consider there's 10 Yesses and 2 Noes on an on-going poll) dictate what their decision should be inclined towards. If a user is met with the aforementioned scenario, he will hardly vote No due to its lack of momentum and votes. Instead, he may either choose to vote a different option and/or go with a Yes as long as new terms are introduced throughout the debate. Whichever way, the effect of "knowing in advance" will have played a substantial role in deflecting his/her vote decision making and will in turn reflect poorly on the poll's accuracy.



/Dan

Try to change important fundamentals of an organisation, for example the constitution. I can assure you that even if they can change it, they need at least 2/3d of the votes. A lot of associations got the same with their statutes (Not sure if this is the right English word)