No, I am actually shocked about some things that have been happening lately.
A few Senators and the President are more or less openly discouraging citizens from posting in Senate threads even when their contributions are useful. Now we have a Senate Speaker who attacks a private citizen for conducting polls on controversial bills. Both things would have been unheard of in Atlasia just a few months ago
Things are getting worse really quickly, and if there are officeholders who want to stifle participation in this game completely this is exactly what they need to do.
Of course it would have been unheard a few months ago, because the office of Senate speaker has never existed before. And come on, the game before was much worse than now. I mean, don't you remember, for example Wolfentoad who was leading smear PM wars against people?
But more seriously, I have never been fan of polls in the atlas fantasy election board. I have always believed this is a way to make a big issue about something that clearly shouldn't. This is the same problem we have with referendums you know irl. For example, making a poll about a senate race and strangely too many people voted to be realistic (ie: the Southeast senate race recently. Yankee was never going to lose 10-0). Or an another example, the opinion of "xxxxx", so many ways to hijack itin order make the senator look bad.
And this is the same thing I'm reproaching with polls about a bill. This is a way to influence the process or to make people look bad and I don't like at all (and this is the case with 2 polls). If people have something to say, I would prefer them to debate directly in the senate threads.
But people are obviously free to do whatever they want, I just give my opinion, something I have the constitutional right to do so 
. I'm not trying to shutdown his newspaper (like I have never tried to do so by the way) or whatever.
But it wasn't Lumine that brought this issue up. He didn't create the controversy with the polls, he merely created them in reaction to the objections raised by several in publics threads including Simfan and Oakvale as well as many others including PiT and myself.
Now one example where a poll did set off a controversy was me polling the supreme court approvals in May 2013 for Survey Atlasia once they let NC Yankee v. Atlasia sit a mont with no ruling. THat led to impeachement trails, the expectations amendment and finally several attempts at judicialy term limits. Needless to say that raced far beyond my expectations and I ended up an opponent of the "court reform" movement for the most part post June, though I did work with Tyrion his proposal in the fall as a term limit alternative.
These are part of Atlasia though and it would probably be a boring place without them. Imagine how much fun it would have been if I had won, without getting 30% in a single poll the final month.
