Poll: Favorite bird?

how about an "uhm, i have a favorite bird?" option?

based on the available choices, I'm not sure it's really about birds. just a guess, though. :)

All I can say is there must be a whole lot of lonely ornithologists out there who came up with those names (I'm assuming the people who study birds are the ones that name them when they discover a new one)

Either that or they're all twelve year old boys!

What's next? Favorite writer.... Balzac Favorite plant..... Orchid Favorite civil engineering task.... Erection

Yes, the poll has hit a new low.

ha...bushtit. i can't help but grin like an idiot (moreso than normal, that is)

o/' chestnut brown canaaaryyyyyy, ruby throated spaaaarrow... o/' etc, etc :) *grins*

oh, and (being a bit of an ornithologist myself, hehehe) i don't think we actually have any of those over here. though i did see two black kites in the south of france last week *smirkle*

oh, and my favorite? definitely gouldian finches :)

oh, sorry, yeah we do actually have woodpeckers *slaps forehead*

anybody else earwormed now with the python bookshop sketch? just me, then? right. ok.

OK...what's with half this thread getting modded down below threshold? Can anyone seriously object to a lack of helpful discourse based on a poll like THIS? Gah...if it's a silly poll that people can't seriously respond to, I think it's ridiculous to mod folks down who don't add enough to the discussion. Come ON.

Sorry. Just ticked off when I came and suddenly half the posts were below threshold and I could see no logical reason.

-AK

the problem has been addressed :-)

Sorry I freaked. I just know if it happened to me in a thread as non-serious as this I would probably take it as a personal affront. So I got defensive in their favor. Heeee. :)

-AK

Well, it's been addressed relatively speaking. People still have the ability to mod posts..... and unfortunately, people are still using it to show either agreement or disagreement with said posts.

It appears, as expected, that people are misusing the system.... and moreso, missing the point. But, again, perhaps that would be fixed by having a disclaimer..... or an "are you sure?" sort of window... with an explanation... when you click on thumbs up or down.... so that people are made aware that this is not a way of showing agreement/disagreement?

Just a thought....

Do you have the one without the Gannet?

(ALBATROSS!!!)

alright then, I'll remove it
[page being torn out]
any other birds you don't like?

See, it's stuff like this that makes me favor just droping the system, at least for now. On a big board it's definitly useful, but I don't think we need it here.
Could we maybe try it without mods for a couple of polls and see how things go? If the lack of mods becomes leads to abuse, than my all means put them back, but right now I think they're just causing more problems than they solve.

What Talcott said. In my opinion, the current mod system discourages people from posting -- if our words aren't perfectly chosen, thought-provoking, and meaningful, we run the risk of being modded down and having our ratings slip (correct me if I'm wrong...I still don't get this whole thing). That doesn't exactly cntribute to a feeling of welcome, or an atmosphere of open discussion. And as I and others have pointed out before, there's already been abuse of the system, and as long as the system continues, so will the abuse. I would actually like a return to the old FHDC moderator system, because I think moderating trolls and abuse is more important (and useful) than moderating every single post people make in every single forum. I don't think people should be judged here by whether or not everything they say is "relevant" to everybody else in the community. As long as people are willing to follow the acceptable use policy and treat others as they want to be treated, they're OK by me.

"the one without the gannet"?? they all have the gannet! it's a standard british bird! albatross!!

I agree. I dropped the mod system for now. Let's see how it goes and if we need something in the future, we can go that route.

... closest to "European Swallow" I could find. :-P

"...maybe if it were an African Swallow..."

-- Pauley

I can't buy that. It's torn.

yeah, I'm with ya! where's the "other" button? heh! *tweet tweet* and Big Bird wasn't even there! *gasp*

My post is still modded out. What a bunch of total f***ing losers you people are. Mod that!

s**k my Scolopax rusticola

Well, it's certainly better than the european spit. *nodsnods*

Have you got "Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying?"

Have you got "Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying?"

Come on people... what's better than an ex-parrot?!?