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Please Bring Back Poll Section in IMDb Home Page

​Dear IMDb Editors,​ ​Please bring back the separate poll section in the IMDb Home Page like we used to have at least couple of years ago.​ ​🔰Example​​:​ ​ ​ ​ ​ From last two years the polls are getting featured under "Editor's Picks" section and that too at #3 slide. 🔰Slide#1​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​🔰Slide#2​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​🔰Slide#3​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 🔰Problems We Are Facing:​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ✅1. Poor engagement. After 4-5 days being featured in the home page a poll gets hardly 500 votes. ​ ✅2. Huge drop in the number of regular poll voters as a result of poor engagement. ​ ✅3. Huge drop in the average number of votes per poll. ​ ✅4. New poll authors facing extreme difficulty to earn Poll Maker badge because earning 1,000 votes under this new system is so difficult that 100,000 votes seems like a dream to them, which has no guarantee of fulfillment in near future. ​ I have been a part of this community since 2014. I have seen new users getting Poll Author badge (100,000 votes) in 3-4 months after started making polls. ​ I think it will be interesting if IMDb Editors bring back the separate section for polls in the home page like we used to have or at least put the poll section at #1 slide on the "Editor's Choice" column. ​ It will be interesting for users, poll authors, voters. Poll authors at least deserve to get some good amount engagement after days of hard work put into making that poll which is ultimately selected by Editors from a wide number of published polls. ​ Thank you. ​

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Vote up this post if you would like to see more user polls featured in the IMDb.com home page. This would drive more votes and interaction to the polls and help keep them interesting. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Feature more polls in the home page

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? ? How many UP Votes will it take to add more Polls https://www.imdb.com/ More to explore Editor's picks Poll: The Best Martial Arts TV Series https://www.imdb.com/poll/kNyAA0OgrA8/ Results of 560 votes = Menu https://www.imdb.com/poll/ Featured Poll: NC-17 Directors A poll by thenolanfan. https://www.imdb.com/poll/3TmMJerqQQs/ Results of 53 votes Pick A Poll Showing 2 to 25 https://www.imdb.com/poll/?start=9810 Showing 9,810 to 9,820 - - - No link to IMDb Community Forums | IMDb | IMDb Poll https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/topics/imdb-poll/5f4951c662e5fc53cfeb955a .

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Cool, first poll ever created by muzzle August 14, 2013???

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@mariojacobs muzzle IMDb member since January 1994 https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0000005/ <---<< Quick Links Ratings | Lists Watchlist | Checkins Reviews | Poll Responses Add: Polls Created - - - https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0000005/lists List - No Poll MyMovies: à voir english created - 03 Sep 2010 | updated - 18 Jul 2011 https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000000005/ <---<< 16 titles The Best Directors by muzzle created - 03 Sep 2010 | updated - 20 Sep 2010 https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000000007/ <---<< 6 names - - - My All-Time Top 10 Movies by Col Needham https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/Col_Needham created - 03 Sep 2010 | updated - 15 Aug 2019 https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000000003/ <---<< 10 titles - - - mariojacobs Fri, Aug 27, 2021 Poll Suggestion: Mad Mad by mariojacobs created - 27 Aug 2021 https://www.imdb.com/list/ls501503438/ <---<< 21 titles .

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The homepage poll should have a space of it's own like the old days. Polls used to gather 15.000 votes and now 1.300 most. Someone's got to do something about it.

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What Amazon is missing here is that it is an excellent marketing tool. Some folks will be exposed to a title they are not familiar with, and actually rent that title making them money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@Paok_Kilkis Indeed. It was terrible for the polls visibility to remove them from the homepage, it is a decission I'll hope to see corrected everyday.

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@K_PAXTON Indeed, each poll could be a treasure of marketing data about movie preferences and the more visibility the better.

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@Pencho15 Some folks can't see an opportunity staring them straight in the face!

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I'll give people in the Poll section a chance to vote, then I'll probably move this to the IMDb.com section so it may be seen by other eyes.

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2 years ago

I see the post was changed to Idea, and it may need votes.

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@Peter_pbn​ Yes, I posted it as a 'Problem' related post. It has been changed.

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@Peter_pbn​ Pibby I posted it under IMDb.com subcategory, should I change the subcategory to IMDb Poll? My other post related to Mobile Version Poll Page is posted under IMDb.com subcategory.

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@Dibyayan_Chakravorty​ It's probably best to keep it in the IMDb.com category so it isn't mixed with the poll suggestions.

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2 years ago

Damn bro you looking fresh af

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@BonaFideBOSS​ Thanks! It's from my wedding reception last November ☺️

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@Dibyayan_Chakravorty​ Congratulations!

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@BonaFideBOSS​ Thank you 😊

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2 years ago

Strong support for this idea.

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@Pencho15​ 🫂

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2 years ago

Any update on this?

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@Col_Needham​ Thank you 😊 That sounds great 😃

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@Col_Needham​ Since your last reply on April 22, 2023, it has been 11 months and still no updates or improvements regarding the same. Polls that are getting featured on home pages under "Editors' Picks" column get at an average of 500-700 votes and that too in 5-7 days. Which means just a 100 votes a day. During the old times polls used to get 3k-5k votes daily because those used to get featured under a separate independent section at the botton portion of the home page.

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@Col_Needham Since the redesign is completed , can we expect the home page features to make a comeback ?

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7 months ago

I just found out that the Poll Section under Editors' Choice column has been disappeared. Did that happen recently?

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@Dibyayan_Chakravorty​ Yes, it just happened a few days ago. We haven't got any news of the polls being moved to the new technology yet.

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@Pencho15​ Speaking of new technology, I am seeing a new version of my IMDb profile page since last week and I don't like it at all. Still there is an option to view older version of the page but the profile bio section is now having a character limitation. I have to think some different way to keep a record of my poll statistics and records. This was really really not needed. There shouldn't be a character limitation in the bio. Let the users write their thoughts in their bio.

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24 days ago

Dear IMDb Editors, Any update on this?