It's actually the result of me trying to make a serious meta post about research and writing, wanting to put a poll at the end of it to ask how people use research for writing, and discovering that the "preview" option doesn't show polls, freaking out about my lack of polling ability, and going nuts with the poll mechanism.

It's kind of addictive, actually. Now I want to do a poll about how come you won't take my poll. ;o)