I've noticed this too. Some Premiers just make a poll after reading the first post, but if there's actually discussion going on, I think that means it's worth keeping the GD topic open.

Oh no, I'm not guilty of that, never...

Yeah, this is a problem with no answer. *sigh*

Learned that when I made this poll, unfortunately.

Yes. I agree. Me personally though, I rarely comment in polls for much of anything. Generally they're not that great of polls and no post count is a bit meh. And it seems like every time I try to be a good Premier member and poll a topic I do it wrong somehow.

Xidash

I think this should be a poll.

I can see it now...

"Do you think that too many polls are being made for topics that actually merit mature discussion?"

That's hardly the predicament. The problem lies in deciding what can be polled, and what would be better off left in it's own topic. I've seen this discussion - about having discussions in a Poll's topic - many times. Post count or not, if a topic is better off as a poll, it will be polled, and discussion can continue in the poll topic.

Someone can make a poll, but the decision to close the topic is ultimately left in the hands of my staff in GD.

I've kept this issue in the back of my mind for a while, occasionally thinking about it when it manages to surface amongst the financial management and principles of marketing material and Java I'm shoving into my head this semester.

One thing you can probably count on though - I've been thinking about adding a rule to stop premiers from popping into a topic, deciding it's better in a poll, and linking to it. This is borderline acting like a staff because what can and should not be polled is up to the staff.