Who here would like to see a seperate forum catagory for polls?
Now this is just my personal opinion of course, but I would rather see all these polls in an area of their own, that way those people who like taking part can do so, and those of us that wish to discuss modeling can do that without having to wade through all the 'mines better than yours' polls. Unfortuntaley these polls often seem to encourage what turn into a certain kind of contest that can't be mentioned on this forum but which uses certain body fluids.
Now don't get me wrong, I will usually add my 2 cents worth to a poll, but they are starting to get a little prolific.
In The aircraft MODELING forum, we have:
'Greatest Fighter Pilot Poll'.
'Spitfire Versus Mustang: which was better' Better in what
terms? To model, or 1v1, or to work on?
'Greatest figher pilot' again....
'Bomber'.
And the one that really takes the cake for question with the least thought applied: 'Old planes versus New Planes: which is better' . Again - better to model, fly, work on, fight in? After all there would be no need to develop new AIRCRAFT, if the old ones were as 'good'.
'Which plane would you choose' Based on what? what you've read about them? As probably 90% of us aren't combat pilots.
'Everyone look a Poll' Which at least isn't a'mines better than your's..' variety and asks an interesting question about how many of us share an interest in Flightsims to go along with our hobby of modeling.
Now these are the polls that appear on the first 3 pages of this forum, I didn't go any further back, but I expect there will be others.
Polls are a valid type of discussion, but many of the polls posted on this forum are of the rather vague and rather pointless variety (the Spit v. Stang for instance, and the Modern v. Old).
So are there others out there who would like to see a polls section on this site, and to keep the modeling areas free for modeling discussions rather than pseudo-historical comparisons?