bad admining

[MrShine]

Poll makers need to be smart about it.  Whenever I see a poll come up randomly mid battle I press 2 and ignore immediately.

-make a poll at the beginning of the next round when people are actually going to have time to pay attention
-type something in chat about what happened
-having multiple people (probably not just from the same clan) confirm in chat

When that happens I tend to type '1' more often.

But I do agree when admins aren't around polls should be activated.

[_GTX_]

-having multiple people (probably not just from the same clan) confirm in chat

When that happens I tend to type '1' more often.

Proves my first point.

[Teeth]

Admins who leave a server and do not turn polls back on should not be admins at all. That's just annoying and stupid.

More than a couple of times I've seen a teammate intentionaly go around teamkilling or teamhitting because they know there is no admin and no polls on server. Especialy bad on siege servers.

Loads of times those teammates make the team lose all the time and people start raging. Pretty soon 1/3 of the team is just standing in the spawn area waiting for the teammattacker to respawn so they can kill him due to rage.

Admins. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY, stop turning off polls if you're just gonna forget to put them back on after you leave.

Get your CTRL-INSERT, or even better Fraps, ready, and be the rat.

[dodnet]

I dunno, polls never seem to work anyway, they usually always fail, and they just get spammed for no reason at all...

They work quite well. The main problem are all these ragepolls, esp. during combat when the poll window is really annoying and you have better things to do than that. I was ban (!) polled because I accidently tk'ed one of my teammates and didn't even noticed that during battle heat - luckily it was refused.

Second problem are polls without a stated reason. How should I know why someone should be kicked, if I dont even see what he did esp. if he is on the other team? I press 2 on these kind of polls always.

[Tears of Destiny]

More often then not, polls are turned back on. You mainly notice when you want to submit a poll but can't and take note because it irritates you.

As Xant said, Admins are human, but as cmpxchg8b said "Admins are human too, so mistakes can happen. We are terribly sorry for not being perfect and are working on replacing all players and admins with computers for optimal performance." Be patient, and in the mean time stop making mountains out of molehills... We have to put up with your shenanigans too...

[Tennenoth]

Quit your nonesense, polls are damned annoying and you wouldn't believe the "I" chat we recieve when polls are on and someone makes a poll mid round. It ranges from the friendly players with "Awww hell naw, polls still on, admin gettin' mad" - direct quote, thank you to whomever sent that one in, to people just being downright rude and ignorant with things too explicable to post back.

Xant, Tears and cmp quite happily sum things up, specifically Tears' first comment;

More often than not, polls are turned back on. You mainly notice when you want to submit a poll but can't and take note because it irritates you.

[Lichen]

Poll makers need to be smart about it. 

hahaha, not likely.  Turn them off.

Whenever I see a poll come up randomly mid battle I press 2 and ignore immediately.

Same.

[Teeth]

If polls are off and no admins are on, just revenge teamkill, believe me, such griefers will stop at least bothering you when you do that. Oh well, that, of course, I heard from a friend, I would NEVER do such things 

Exactly, be a ruthless bastard, anyone pulls tricks on me and I can whine to an admin about it, I take matters in my own hand. Really devoted trolls will nag you until you do something against them and then screen it and post on forum, still worth it.

[Gisbert_of_Thuringia]

Just to support OP's post, no polls on on EU1 and there have been several admins online today.

What happens? Lots of pricks teamattacking and leeching...


+1 to our admins

[Dan lol]

pollspam is worse than tking

just alt tab and whine on irc you big vaginas

[Joker86]

It would be nice if every initiated poll would open a chat window, so that you can write down the reason for this poll.

And if someone starts spamming polls I bet people would be annoyed enough to banpoll him off the server 

[Gisbert_of_Thuringia]

pollspam is worse than tking

just alt tab and whine on irc you big vaginas

Try it when there is no admin on or most of them are ignoring it

[Christo]

Try it when there is no admin on or most of them are ignoring it

IRC at it's best. 

[Kafein]

pollspam is worse than tking

just alt tab and whine on irc you big vaginas

I never understood why people are so obsessed with polls "distracting" them.

Personally, when it's a kick and I don't know, I just hit 1 so the argument stops for a round.

"Pollspam" is very rare... when it happens it's usually because a big part of the server is fed up with someone in particular and various people from that group initiate polls until the person is kicked/temp banned.

Polls are a quite useful channel of communication in some circumstances, being straightforward in all languages and very noticeable.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

I never understood why people are so obsessed with polls "distracting" them.

Personally, when it's a kick and I don't know, I just hit 1 so the argument stops for a round.

"Pollspam" is very rare... when it happens it's usually because a big part of the server is fed up with someone in particular and various people from that group initiate polls until the person is kicked/temp banned.

Polls are a quite useful channel of communication in some circumstances, being straightforward in all languages and very noticeable.

hitting 1 in mid of melee is a pain in the ass, though.

also pollspam is only rare in crpg thanks to good admin work/regular presence.