For me, the first are "quizzes". All the "What Major Arcana/Heinlein novel/nasal hygiene product/etc. are you?" crap that people post in their journals fall into this category.
The second are the "surveys" I'm talking about--lists of personal questions. They seem to be getting longer and longer, with more and more cutesy variations (e.g. numerical or alphabetical themes) appearing.
"Polls", either produced using the LJ poll tool or like your Monday Mini-Poll, are different. They strike me as more targeted: The poller has a particular question in mind they'd like to hear various people's responses to. It's not so much a scattershot, shotgun attempt to get people to talk about themselves.
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Date: 2003-06-25 08:32 am (UTC)For me, the first are "quizzes". All the "What Major Arcana/Heinlein novel/nasal hygiene product/etc. are you?" crap that people post in their journals fall into this category.
The second are the "surveys" I'm talking about--lists of personal questions. They seem to be getting longer and longer, with more and more cutesy variations (e.g. numerical or alphabetical themes) appearing.
"Polls", either produced using the LJ poll tool or like your Monday Mini-Poll, are different. They strike me as more targeted: The poller has a particular question in mind they'd like to hear various people's responses to. It's not so much a scattershot, shotgun attempt to get people to talk about themselves.