[Keith Collantine]

We like a good poll here on F1 Fanatic but some readers have previously suggested that if I include my take on a subject next to a poll it leads people to vote a certain way.

I’ve always had my doubts about that view – many of you seem to have opinions no less trenchant than mine! But it seemed to me only a small technical tweak would be necessary to allow people the choice of whether they read my take on a subject before voting on it.

So for forthcoming polls there is now a button which allows you to see the ‘I say’ text, which is hidden by default. Take a look at this recent poll here for an example:

WEC grid girl ban: Should F1 do the same?

[VMaxMuffin]

@keithcollantine This is what I see:

The buttons don’t do anything.

EDIT: This is in Google Chrome. I just tried it in Internet Explorer and it was fine.

[Keith Collantine]

@vmaxmuffin Sometimes Chrome can be a bit slow to ‘see’ the new stylesheet code – if you refresh the page I suspect it will work. It looks fine in Chrome here.

[matt90]

Perhaps a simpler way to do it would be to just change the order and have your say below the poll, or link to a more thorough opinion piece without presenting a summary on the same page as the poll. Seeing as people can just skip your paragraph if they really want to, I’m not sure hiding it adds much. It looks odd to me that a poll driven by yourself and appearing on your own blog would censor your own opinions. Also, curiosity means that I don’t think I’d ever resist any ‘reveal’ button, no matter what it was hiding!

[VMaxMuffin]

@keithcollantine yes refreshing the page was the trick. I had “reloaded” it several times but when I actually hit refresh it fixed it.

[Girts]

@KeithCollantine If only governments cared about their people as much as you do ;)

Anyway, this is a nice feature but I will never use it because I always love to read experts’ views before forming my own opinion!

[Iestyn Davies]

Same, but it will assuage those who don’t want to read it before deciding their vote. I guess most of those would click it afterwards?

[Neel Jani]

@KeithCollantine I see why you did it but it’s funny to what extent you’ve to go to stop some daft critics :D

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