Why, my friend, a survey is a thread where you post a question as the main topic and then invite everybody and their mother to answer it for great comedic and conversational effect.
"But Billy, aren't these threads incredibly spammy and a one-sided waste of time for 99% of the people reading the forum?", asks those.
Yes, those, you're exactly right. These threads are indeed a gigantic waste of time for people trying to actually find and post proper content that requires more than 20 seconds of executive thought to contribute to.
So, they have their own subforum now!
That fixes everything! Hooray!
(If your post starts with What or otherwise ends in a very general question, it belongs here. Otherwise, go back to Off-Topic and forget you ever saw this terrible, terrible place.
"But Billy, aren't these threads incredibly spammy and a one-sided waste of time for 99% of the people reading the forum?", asks those.
Yes, those, you're exactly right. These threads are indeed a gigantic waste of time for people trying to actually find and post proper content that requires more than 20 seconds of executive thought to contribute to.
So, they have their own subforum now!
That fixes everything! Hooray!
(If your post starts with What or otherwise ends in a very general question, it belongs here. Otherwise, go back to Off-Topic and forget you ever saw this terrible, terrible place.