Live Poll: The Best Band Cameos in Movies

P.S.: The problem with writing only "Poll Suggestion" in the title here is, that we have a few thousand ideas around. When they all start with only "Poll Suggestion", we would'nt know which is which. ;) So please also make sure to best always pick a unique title. Greets. :)

Thanks for the advice. Is there anything else I could improve?

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Just for your consideration: I would skip the word "incomplete" in the list. It may read odd for some voters.

In general it's always good to confront one self as a voter when making a poll. I always try to imagine what the poll would look like to other users, keeping them in mind. From older discussion in here I still know that people's minds can be very different. One aspect is too keep it free from swearwords. Insults can be a part of a poll - we had them in past - but then with certain rules about! It has to be clear that we don't want to insult anyone, but insults can be a weightily important subject of e.g. movies or TV series. And it's to keep in mind that also underaged might be around on IMDb and also here in the forum. So if anyone is kidding around, don't be angry. I can be silly, too. Even though I'm grown up. ;)

Thanks, added these movies to the list.

It also is good to pick the most significant 1,2,3,... words to search in the forum if your idea already exists. If there already exists an idea with the same content and close title, it might be that the work you did is not to purpose and another idea will be picked instead. Sometimes you can avoid that with asking another question, pick newer movies which are not appeared in the predecessor's poll. Then it's like a second part. Would be polite if you ask the first writer, if he/she is ok with. But some writers are not active anymore. Some poll board members will know. Your chances to get a poll released rise when you take part in other suggestions. That's what community is about. ;D

It really takes some effort for your poll to get picked.

My first was the most effort, due to my former mountain high lack of English vocabulary, grammar and other things coming off me. But I had good help at the forum, so I'm trained in the circumstances of poll writing now. Only I still do many typos and being not really sure of the use of English language, so I often fail in dictums. English seems to be your mother tongue, is it? At least your English is better than mine when I arrived here. So you will do more easy, I guess.

No, English is not my native language. But it's surprising to me that creating a poll isn't as simple as creating a movie list. Aren’t those two similar processes? I understand that making a poll is a bit more complex, but still.

Essentially it is as easy as you thought. You just have to know a few things. Your list now is in a state it would be able to be released. Maybe the admins or other users can have some points on it. Then they will tell it here. Jessica is one of the admins. Dan_Dassow wrote down some rules for polls you can read in that FAQ: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/faq-so-you-want-to-make-an-imdb-poll-heres-how/5f4a79a68815453dba8499e9

Here you can see the stats of your polls: https://imdbstats.com/ (search my nick breumaster, you can see my stats)

Basically it's a matter of working together, creating, being positive and socially connected in our little community. The users and also the admins come from around the world. We are connected by our hobby. Maybe it's the clearest view on it to see it as a hobby, exercised with the fellows here. You're free in having an idea. As long as it isn't too complicated and when it's really unique, it has best chances to become a poll. It's also a matter of connection to the voters. What would they best like to vote? How can I create my poll in a way I get their attention to vote?

Congrats, Egoruka! :D

Thank you so much, everyone! My poll wouldn’t have been published without your help!

Please feel free to suggest, the community lives from active users. I must admit my first poll did take a little longer before getting released. But my english was perfectly underwhelming. ;) Maybe you got other things you always missed in the polls. You can do with your ideas if you want.

P.S.: It has already caught a good ammount of votes, looks good. I guess it'll have more than 150 votes after a week. Maybe even more than 200.

@Egoruka: Wow, it already has 193 votes by now! That's much.

Is that really a lot of votes? I’ve seen polls with as many as 20,000 votes, although they were posted a long time ago. I guess the community isn’t as active now.

As of today it is. Just compare with other polls the last two month. Considering the fact that it is just six days since it was released, it is a very good result after all. I also saw polls getting 5 digit results, but that was years ago. Way before the re-design of the page. You can see it here on the site: https://imdbstats.com/ There are 15.178 polls listed. 49 got a result of 20.000+ votes. - All of them were released before 2020. 340 got a result of 10.000+ votes - with only one exception they were all still released before 2020. 995 got a vote 5.000+ votes - with only one exception they were released all still before 2020. 4993 got a vote of 1.000+ - Mostly all of them still were released before 2020. The results sank from 2020 until now. 200 votes is (!) a good result now.

Alright, good to know. And what’s the highest number of votes you’ve ever had?

And maybe we should start discussing this in a new comment so we don’t bother Jessica XD.

I don't think we bother Jessica with that. ;D My own best markt was 2.451 votes: https://www.imdb.com/poll/eE9KHKCgSAg/ I guess my lowest with 101 votes was: https://www.imdb.com/poll/eKB_SkHwqIg/

By the way, I also noticed a trend that the first place almost always wins on average, so we could experiment with this and put some super obscure movie in first place.

I can't determine that and confide to the website responsibles picking the poll suggestions for good reason. And also the place they put them in. So we can't experiment that on our own, and for my own it's good that the responsibles take that burden from me. So I can freely develope my ideas as a poll writer and since I'm known on the board for long time, I often can make suggestions for special dates, like the world no tobacco day, when I've had the poll become live. But it's always better to first make oneself more familiar with the conventions. Maybe it's good for you to first get to know other users by joining other poll discussions. You can also suggest options in other user's poll suggestions, if you want. You can always do. I f a suggestion is taken by other users, most often depends on if the option you suggested fits to the user's poll suggestion.