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Title: ATTENTION: How to properly post 2012 polls, a.k.a Board Rules Post by: Tender Branson on March 23, 2011, 01:27:38 AM I hereby announce the following rules for this board:
SUPREME RULE: Only post scientific polls from legitimate pollsters, such as pollsters for News Organisations (CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CBS, NYT etc.) or public pollsters such as Mason-Dixon, SurveyUSA, PPP, Rasmussen or University polls. If someone posts a personal poll, I will either move it to another section, or delete it. MINOR RULES: * If you post a poll, please indicate in the heading which state it is for, normally with a shortening of the state's name like "CA" for California, or just write the whole state name. * Please also state the pollsters name in the heading and it it is not a regular pollster like the ones mentioned above, but a partsian one, please insert a (D) or a (R) after the pollsters name. * Please indicate internal polls if you are quite sure that it is one. Internal polls are conducted by partisan pollsters and normally have something like "to interested parties" or the campaign name of their client in the press release. * In the main text space, please then post the topline results of the poll, either in text form or numbers and - very importantly - post the link of the source. * When 2012 rolls around, Dave will also provide the 2012 Poll Database again, but rules about how to enter polls to this database will follow when this database is set up. * UPDATE September 1, 2011 When entering a poll, there is an option in the matrix called: Forum Thread? New: [...] None: [...] Link Existing: [...] Topic ID: [...] First go here https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?board=90.0 and check if this poll has already a thread. If it does, click to LINK EXISTING and put in the topic ID. Because if you click "New", we have it twice in there. ... When entering a poll, please also check carefully if you can find the source in the source list. If you don't find the source, you can PM me, because Dave has given me the rights to put in a source name. Also: Before you enter the poll, make sure that every data you put in is the same like in the original poll. ... So, please follow these basic rules because I have other stuff to do as well, not only correct stupid mistakes, especially if 2012 rolls around and 20-30 polls are posted here each day. Also: If you have other questions about how to post polls here or in the case you are not sure what to do, feel free to post here and the 3 moderators (Nym, Mr. Morden and me) will help you out. So, enjoy the postings and discussions any may you find many polls. ;) Title: Re: ATTENTION: How to properly post 2012 polls, a.k.a Board Rules Post by: Queen Mum Inks.LWC on January 04, 2012, 01:16:52 PM When you guys enter polls, please include the information on the poll. And link to a link that will remain valid for the poll for sometime (i.e. don't link to the realclearpolitics page for New Hampshire polls for one poll). At least include the poll question and the breakdown for who got what, since Roemer and Karger aren't listed in the database, and include the basic poll info.
There's no rush to get these into the database. It's better to have quality data 2 hours later than incomplete data right when it's released on the aggregator websites. Plus, it's less stuff that the poll editors have to do to go back and add info. Thanks! Title: Re: ATTENTION: How to properly post 2012 polls, a.k.a Board Rules Post by: Queen Mum Inks.LWC on March 05, 2012, 04:10:04 AM Please stop entering polls based on Twitter. There's no rush to enter polls, and it just creates more work when people (like me) have to go back and edit the poll to fill in the missing information. Also, if you create a poll and the thread's already created, please link to the thread in the poll form.
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