It's item #22 on Erik's latest (unprioritised) Wishlist ...
User-generated polls (and embeddable in forums)
Chess.com Feature Request and Wishlist #4
It's #6 on the (unordered) list of Forum Annoyances ...
Lack of a good survey tool (tally-forum-annoyances-ii)
xMenace cited a diabetes site as an example of more colourful survey presentation ...
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/tally-forum-annoyances?page=2
Baseballfan's discussion about surveys (Help make Chess.com even better! - Trophys and Surveys!, post #99) contained this observation about the limitations of current surveys ...
Regarding surveys, the only option currently available is a discrete, multiple-choice variable (radio buttons). Could support for numbers be added? This would be much more natural for surveys such as: How many chess.com groups do you belong to?
A further refinement would be to collect TWO items of information e.g.
In how many games have you RESIGNED?
- None
- Less than 5
- Between 6 and 15
- More than 15
WHAT is your rating?
- less than 1000
- 1001 - 1300
- 1301 - 1600
- 1601 - 1900
- greater than 1900
This would enable some interesting correlations to be made.
Erik wrote (in June 2007) :
We have just launched a new feature: chess surveys!
We'll soon be adding the ability for anyone to insert a survey into an article, blog, forum post, etc!
Let us know if you like it! :)
New Chess.com Feature: SURVEYS!
It would be great to have the ability post polls for threads that you create. What do you think?
I would like to create a small survey for one of my teams but I can't, why? There are surveys on the main page of chess.com but why can't premium members create their own polls or surveys?
I think it would be a useful addition to an already wonderful website.