I don't see the point of the debate yet. What's the importance of polls?
The historical importance
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What is the importance of having fun? They're just a method of expression, you can assign them any sort of meaning you want.
Ok. In essence, polling is just a sort of voting system with its pros and cons. It's good enough
it can also be quite secure because it's based on cryptographic signatures, and you can constrain the set you look at by the white list of a relay. i mentioned the idea of adding a feature to polls where you could specify a limited set of users that would be valid for voting on it as well, this could be a basis for organisational decisions, but you could just use the relay whitelist for this, a specialised relay that only accepts poll events, for example