K, I'm gonna go do other things, be back in a few hours, I'll respond to any comments pointed towards me when I get back.

Yes, it is possible to sway public opinion but I don't think this particular poll was written in a way to do so and I don't think most of the polls on here do. I don't think it is acceptable to advocate pedophillia on a public forum, but I don't think that's what this poll in question did. If you want to say it advocated anything it would be the relationships portrayed in 'Iskeai' anime, but I don't think while the material in them may be questionable they are intended to promote pedophillia either. I also don't think this poll advocated any position at all. Their is no technical legal precedent for what the poll asked about and it is commonly portrayed in media meaning a poll on it which itself is neutral shouldn't be a problem. If you don't think this fandom can acknowledge that then you have to remove characters from your users section of various powers otherwise it's the same thing. As you said this fandom stands by rules and if 95% of users wanted racist content the fandom isn't going to change to incorporate that however 95% of the users would still hold such beliefs, but simple beliefs aren't advocating or helping the inclusion of it on this fandom. People are going to hold their beliefs regardless of what you represent and already hold opinions when they come here. 44% of people expressed their opinions and I'm sure the majority of them wouldn't have changed them regardless of the poll. This is not news and I believe the majority of polls here are used to gauge public opinion not to influence it. I was speaking of admins in general when I said the 'too much time online' part and while you may not be as active your support of things like this and status as an admin make you just as much part of it. If you feel polls influence opinions and you don't like that get rid of polls. If 95% of people advocated for racist content and you didn't like them shut down the forum and if 44% supported something you were against use your powers to get ban those users. If you see doing that as overdoing it maybe you get my point. There is obviously treacherous content like posting "Hey, I like messed up things." and then there is middle ground taking action to oppress the middle ground like the first option is signs of exerting way too much control and if that is what you want to do simply make the site a highly regulated site where such content can't happen in the first place otherwise try to withhold from using your authority to suppress stuff that you may not like personally but isn't going out of its way to break rules.

@Nicholas8293 the point is that it should not have been a poll period. At most a text post, because pedophilic behavior is never a valid acceptable answer. It's like asking to have a genuine conversation about people's opinions on genocide - it's not acceptable to be pro-genocide. There is not room for pro-genocide in this discussion, so it should not be a poll because that invites people to say they are pro-genocide and thus legitimizes that talking point.

Does this make sense?

@Necrotifice I recommend locking this thread, any further discussion of this topic would be redundant. Everyone's said their piece.

@Jayroo please learn to use a line break. This wall of text is impossible to read.

You think that people's opinions are just set before the come to a poll. This is provable false. You can change the outcomes of asking if climate change is real by changing the temperature of the room you poll them in. You can write the question in such a way to get the answer you want. There are entire fields of science that would fall apart if what you said is true.

A lot of stuff I see that huge wall of text is just provably wrong. Your gut-feeling and intuition is not truth, please go read about bias in polling, the bandwagon effect, or just kind of anything you've tried to talk about in that last post. I don't usually tell people to go read a book, but these takes are so far off base that its like reading a bot on twitter.

Got a few minutes. i could have probably worded the poll better, but the word limits screwed me over, it was already a double line poll, I noticed the problem a little in, but polls are impossible to edit, you can see the first comment and many comments after clarifying it and giving context. i don't do text posts anymore since they get barely any interactions and answers, you think i could have gotten 100 comments on a text post?

Lard butt out of this, stop trying to get posts you dislike locked, you're not a admin/mod.

@LardWad420 I can understand wanting to lock the thread, but I try not to lock threads when they are critical of staff actions because that genuinely could be seen as trying to quash dissent.

@Nicholas8293 If your goal is chasing clout and interactions with your posts, maybe don't do it in a way where you invite people to vote yes to pedophilia. I hope you can see how gross that is. Like, you're anti-pedophilia... but not so much so that you won't exploit the topic to get more likes on your post. Even if done in a way the explicitly allows people to vote pro-pedo opinions.

You got over 100 interactions, but remember that 44% of those were people who said yes to pedo-bait. That's a thing that wouldn't have happened if you weren't out here just chasing the clicks.

I'm done with this topic. I don't think I can say anything more on this, and I've already wasted far too much of my own time on this. If you post another controversial poll where you let people vote yes to some obscene shit I'm just gonna ban you. If you can't see how that's wrong you don't need to be here.

@Necrotifice can stop responding to me whenever they wants there is no reason to lock it.

I know about bias. I'm just saying if a poll wanted to ask about a character in an anime who killed the demon lord's army is that not acceptable? Is it influencing behavior? It could be looked at through a lens as genocide, but this fandom is going to have a high correlation with anime and such a theme is common.