Reasons this is not a good idea:
No online polling software is 100% safe from abuse, but the best way to create a poll is using gDocs. It's free and simple to create.
Here is the poll I'm currently running in /r/Music, and here is what the results look like.
Hi there! I'm one of the contributors to Slide. Just wanted to say "Hi" and point you in the direction of our GitHub for any issues you might have. I've linked both below so feel free to create an issue if you need some help. I also wanted to point out that we're in the middle of rewriting the entire android version of the app and we're going to include some awesome new features like being able to style how your sub your subreddit within the app, using CSS. Feel free to leave me any questions and I'll do my best to respond to as many as I can.
Android: https://github.com/ccrama/Slide
iOS: https://github.com/ccrama/Slide-iOS
Edit 1: Fixed typos.
Likewise Relay for reddit has some mod tools as well.
Play store link: Relay for reddit
Can't wait to play around with the editor!
I've got an idea: I'm not sure if there'd be any issues with doing things this way, (browser support for this selector seems pretty good) but I've thought about using the ~=
selector in a stylesheet (as in [title~="someWord"]
) in these markdown pseudo-tags.
e.g. this:
> [](#hb-block-transparent)
could be:
> [](#hb-block "transparent")
and could be selected with something like:
> a[href="#hb-block"][title~=transparent]
So you could also make it more extensible without needing to make weird-looking # urls, like in this example:
> [](#hb-block "transparent rounded small-padding collapsible")
basically using it as a really hacky way to have css classes in the markdown
Something that hasn't been mentioned in this thread are the crypto-currency tipping bots that have been fairly successful in providing a way for redditors to exchange funds and also send donations. I know Stripe is testing bitcoins which could be a huge benefit to redditdonate since there's already a partnership in place.
Even donating USD via a reddit bot could be made possible. Let's say I see a thread about cancer and decide I want to donate $100 to the "Fuck Cancer" campaign. I could make a comment such as:
+/u/redditdonate $100 fuckcancer
The /u/redditdonate bot would send me a PM with a link to a fuck cancer campaign page where I'd complete the donation payment. Once completed the bot could reply to my comment that my donation was verified (or not depending on the moderators of the subreddit this occurs in). If Stripe does end up processing bitcoin payments then that could easily be integrated as well.
I think this approach could be successful because it is more interactive and allows donations to given in threads organically as people converse. It puts the ability to donate on the ground floor of what could potentially become one of the many viral altruistic campaigns the reddit community has incubated in the past.
It's been a while since I've made a new survey/form (and certainly not since they regrouped Docs under "Google Drive" and whatnot), but last time I made one the permanent link that they give you to the spreadsheet should be easy enough to share. And once you create the spreadsheet you can go back and put the spreadsheet URL in the confirmation dialogue so that users can immediately see the results.
Also I don't remember there being anything about requiring the people being surveyed to sign up, but I'll look into it. Perhaps as a "business user" that doesn't affect me. If necessary I can give you an account on my account so you can create a better form.
I went ahead and made a form under my account, here's a link and it goes through and describes how everything works and what options I selected or left un-selected when actually creating the form. Any of the "require sign-in" stuff should be left unchecked.
I'll make a more elaborate explanation about how this all works and offer more guidance on /r/ChingShih. Edit: In the process of elaborating in this tutorial.
Sass is a CSS preprocessor, HyperBlocks are initially written in Sass and then compiled to CSS. If you're not familiar with these things I guess it'll be easier for you to tweak the CSS itself.