someone on the Feature Discussions board asked me to elaborate on how my idea for polls in the fellowships and discussion boards might work, and this is what came of that:

i'm thinking polls would appear on a separate page that was a sort of subpage of a fellowship's main page or its discussion board pages. in each fellowship there would be a link to the polls section, which would take the user to another page dedicated to polls and on which any polls that have been created for the fellowship appear. people would go there to vote in the polls and to create them or close them (provided they have sufficient privileges, of course).

polls could be a help to the big boss in choosing directions in which to take Her fellowship. finding out what the members want in there and stuff.

as regards privileges for the creation, editing, and closing of polls, my thought was that it would be for the big boss of the fellowship or the moderator of the discussion board to decide whether everyone could create, edit, and close polls, or only managers and the big boss/mod, or just the big boss/mod.

and i'm thinking that voting in the polls would work like it does in yahoo groups (and most other places that feature polls) in that you see the current poll results only after you've voted on that poll yourself.

a given poll might also be editable and closeable only by its creator...but then that raises the question of what happens if someone who created a poll leaves BK without closing the poll. we'd need a way for Those Left Behind to rid themselves of the thing if they wanted to...