Ministry of Culture
Regional Poll Suggestion Thread
One of the main parts of the Ministry of Culture’s duties gameside is to provide polls for the engagement and general enjoyment of the residency. While coming up with polls seems simple enough, it can actually be difficult to think of ideas. That’s where you come in.
How to Submit
To submit your poll, you can post in the https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_east_pacific/suggest-a-poll-2-0-t17372.html, you can send a telegram gameside to the nation “Technocratic Tagalog”, or you can direct message me on the forums (username “Technocratic Tagalog”) or on discord (username “TechTag#5066”). You don’t have to use it, but there is a simple preset to fill in for a standard poll suggestion, included at the end of this post.
Standard Polls
Whether it is about NationStates, Real Life, or anything in between, as long as your poll is appropriate and creative, there is a good chance it will be featured. With all due credit, of course.
You can go into as much detail for your poll as you want. It can be just a simple suggestion for a topic we could cover in a poll, or it could be a full poll with a title, a description, and 12 pre-set answer choices to choose from. We will handle the rest. Post your suggestion in the thread below.
Standard Poll Submission Rules
You may not submit a poll with more than 12 answer choices.
You may not submit a poll with binary answer choices. These are questions with simple yes/no, true/false, 0/1 answers.
If the poll is about a category with more than 12 possible answers, please try to pick the 11 most likely answers and add an “Other” option so people can talk about their answer in the RMB.
Try to keep the answer choices short and simple. No paragraphs of information or incredibly complex choices. We want to engage the community, not bore them half to death. It is a good idea to keep the length of the answer proportional to how captivating the choice is. Keep it in the goldilocks zone of short and boring ----> long and crazy.
Choose Your Own Adventure Polls
Choose Your Own Adventure Polls are an NS event that uses the regional poll function to engage the whole region in a Choose Your Own Adventure story, a type of interactive storytelling where each decision progresses the story in a new and unique way. You can use the Suggest-a-Poll function to submit your own ideas for CYOA storylines.
This is done using the standard methods of submission, but with altered guidelines. There can not be any “Other” options, the poll options must go into sufficient detail, potentially at the cost of brevity, and while the answer choice limit is the same, we recommend no more than five options. Descriptions on these are mandatory, and should explain what kind of situation the person is in. Sometimes, the poll may be altered by the Ministry to better fit the CYOA format. The preset may be used for this too.
Preset
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Note, you do not have to use all 12 slots
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