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Inactive polls

When/Why are the polls made inactive? And should they be remade or not?

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Polls that are inactive may be old polls based on character lists. They can possibly be remade in another form. If there are specific polls you are not sure about, you can ask about them.

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I was thinking of birthday polls for Elizabeth Taylor and Chloe Grace Moretz. They both have inactive polls.

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I think you can make those.

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The Elizabeth Taylor poll was made by urbanemovies. Might be best to ask him first since he is still active.

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"The Elizabeth Taylor poll was made by urbanemovies. Might be best to ask him first since he is still active." Then we can tag @urbanemovies But just because you make another birthday poll for someone, it doesn't make it the same poll. Urbane asked for "favorite character", Brijesh can just ask something else.

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? ? urbanemovies IMDb member since December 2011 https://www.imdb.com/user/ur29755297/ https://www.imdb.com/user/ur29755297/lists - 528 lists Most recent ?? Best Official Winter Olympic Documentary? 24 titles | Public Modified 3 August 2021 | Created 28 July 2021 Best Official Summer Olympic Documentary? 34 titles | Public Modified 3 August 2021 | Created 28 July 2021 Most Thrilling Winter Olympic Telecast? 18 titles | Public Modified 7 August 2021 | Created 26 July 2021 .

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I will see if urbanemovies responds, otherwise make it somewhat different.

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It is fine, plus the question is different amyways.

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Yes, I ended up creating title poll. Thanks for responding though!

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dan_dassow has Lists of Polls FAQ: Updating Threads After Poll Goes Live ● FAQ: Key Threads - IMDb Poll FAQs Index ● FAQ: Summary Statistics and Poll Index .

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Some polls are exclusively time based with built in expiration dates. EG. Which movie is the most likely to be nominated for a something something award? You can't really keep the poll open once those nominations have been announced. That would just be silly.

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True. But, I have hardly seen old polls expiring.

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I think Tsar may have been referring to polls being closed by the Staff, which is not necessarily the same as inactive polls. There were over 800 polls based on character lists which became inactive after IMDb discontinued character lists in 2017.

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Could you explain why staff close a poll and what it means when a poll is closed? Thank you in advance.

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Some recent polls from after the poll redesign were closed by error, but IMDb intend to reopen them.

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Would you be kind enough to explain me why this poll was closed? https://www.imdb.com/poll/kM4cwxpwL0JgP-vaeNrpDw/ The poll was created 2 months ago, it started as a live poll 1 month ago but was recently closed.

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I think it is an error. Many different polls were closed after a month. As Tsarstepan argues above, it might make sense to close polls such as this one where the winner has already been announced.

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About two month ago I also had the problem, that polls which have run good were closed instantly after a month. They are not opened again. I'm sad about that. Can't they re-open these polls which were accidentaly closed? I hope the problem does not exist anymore. How about re-pushing them? Might that solve the problem?

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The IMDb staff is supposed to be looking into it as it was an error, but we don't know when will it be solved definitively.