If Yahoo is so concerned with chatting in the community, why is there a Polls & Surveys category?

Isn't every question in the Polls %26amp; Surveys category "chatting"? Why does Yahoo have this category? It has never made sense to me. Can someone explain it to me?

If Yahoo is so concerned with chatting in the community, why is there a Polls %26amp; Surveys category?
They set that up especially to give the 'chatters' somewhere reasonably safe to hang out. Even there, chatting violations have been known to happen, which is why questions there have to at least seem to taking a poll. Check out the "Seniors" area as well -- seems to be a place where they are more lax about reporting chatting, also.
Reply:Polls %26amp; Surveys is among the top 4 areas of Q%26amp;A known for abuse, primarily because of lack of understanding of the Guidelines. Many users see other members post content that violates the guidelines and gets a false sence of security thinking "if they done it, so can I" mentality until the violation report comes in.





Chatting is probably the biggest issue because members think their way is ok and the Yahoo way is too restrictive and totally two seperate notions of what Q%26amp;A is to be used for.





If you stop and think before hitting the submit button, is my question going to ask for a specific reason which everyone can be seen as a truly knowledge seeking %26amp; worthy question; or is my answer going to directly answer the question to help the member asking, then the violations will stop.





And to make matters worse, if a question is clearly chat, so are the answers and they too can be reported as such. Not my rules, but we all have to follow them.
Reply:Legitimate Polls and Surveys are sometimes asked in P/S, but over time, chatting just took over. There is considerable debate on whether or not to do away with this category. They've already removed TC badges.
Reply:that should be the most hits for violations.





polls and surveys are not chatting, when used properly.





a survey would be like multiple choice questions.





polls would be pre-set selections a little different than multiple choice. but allowing the answerer to share their view points to their answers.





so almost ALL that are entered under that category fail the criteria.