silly poll

Sep. 11th, 2007 02:28 pm
wispfox: (curious)
[personal profile] wispfox
Because I got a really startling answer recently when I asked this question, it's now a poll! (no cheating and checking my user info)

Answers viewable to none, because otherwise I'd have to tell people I'm dating not to answer.

[Poll #1053733]

Hmm. Ignore the 'don't care' piece of the multiple answer one, since it doesn't quite fit with the rest of them.

Date: 2007-09-11 06:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com
What the heck does 'dating' mean, anyway? :-P

Date: 2007-09-11 06:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
I'm not sure it matters in this instance. :)

(and the startling answer was '7')

7 is the magic number...

Date: 2007-09-11 06:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com
You should screen this thread to prevent skewing your data. ;)

Re: 7 is the magic number...

Date: 2007-09-11 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
... Naw. That's just so... startling, I suspect it's unlikely to repeat. :)

Date: 2007-09-11 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
I answered "I have absolutely no idea." I'm sure you're significantly involved with at least two people, and I suspect a few others, but it's not something I pay all that much attention to. I read your journal because I like you, not because I'm trying to keep a score card.

Date: 2007-09-11 06:58 pm (UTC)
randysmith: (Default)
From: [personal profile] randysmith
But you're missing out on the whole poly alternative to football! :-} :-}

Date: 2007-09-11 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
Football? Or cricket?

Date: 2007-09-11 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
Yes. And I don't really tend to post much about who I am and am not dating, unless it's something very clearly established. :)

I was just very startled at '7' being a plausible reply!

Date: 2007-09-11 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
Oh, I can imagine there being seven people who'd like to be on your dance card.

Date: 2007-09-11 07:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
But I don't think my brain can _DEAL_ with dating 7 people!

My poor brain. :)

Date: 2007-09-12 01:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
Yeah, see? And you're way better at keeping people in your head than I am. :)

Date: 2007-09-11 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com
She does have a harem, y'know.

Date: 2007-09-11 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zlana.livejournal.com
*giggles* The only answer no one's tried, as of when I'm posting this anyhow, is one!

Date: 2007-09-11 11:03 pm (UTC)
tablesaw: -- (Default)
From: [personal profile] tablesaw
I picked that one up. Am I the only one too busy to find another partner right now?

Date: 2007-09-12 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
I've not got more than one partner; I do, however, have more than one person I'm dating (yes, I can disambiguate that statement if requested).

Date: 2007-09-11 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dajt.livejournal.com
Alas, I can't think of any meaningful choice I can make on this poll. I thought of several amusing responses, but that's not the same thing.

Date: 2007-09-11 08:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-xtina.livejournal.com
In all seriousness, I can think of four off-hand.  You will be releasing names, yes?

Date: 2007-09-11 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
You've voted already; feel free to go look at my user info. :)

Date: 2007-09-12 03:56 pm (UTC)
rosefox: Green books on library shelves. (Default)
From: [personal profile] rosefox
Your userinfo confuses me more, because a) [livejournal.com profile] the_xtina isn't on the list and b) four does not equal seven!

Date: 2007-09-12 05:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
It'll confuse you _even_ _more_ now (but that's a different story).

[livejournal.com profile] the_xtina and I were not dating very well once she was on the other coast, and it was confusing me to have it in my head that we were. So discussion happened, and we are not.

7 was the number suggested to me that startled me, not the number I am actually dating. Possibly I was confusing in my phrasing.

Date: 2007-09-11 09:33 pm (UTC)
cos: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cos
I'm afraid I have to be cos yet again, and you didn't have the cos option!

I have some idea, but my idea is "probably 2 or more than 2, but no more than 5-ish, depending on how much into the fuzziness of involvement you want to count as 'dating'... but maybe just 2".

If you had a "probably 2 or more" option, that'd be close enough and I'd vote for it. But none of the options you listed is right for me, alas.

Date: 2007-09-12 01:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmolly.livejournal.com
Ah, [livejournal.com profile] cos! I can always rely on you to be [livejournal.com profile] cos. :)

Date: 2007-09-12 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
*laughing* Well, who else would he be? ;)

Date: 2007-09-12 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
I _thought_ about adding an 'I am cos' option, actually. :)

What, 'Mu' didn't work?

Date: 2007-09-12 06:48 pm (UTC)
cos: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cos
Mu says the problem is with the question. I thought the question was fine, and I do have an answer to it. But also, the Mu answer was lumped in with so many others that I thought that answer was inherently misleading :)

Date: 2007-09-11 09:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] australian-joe.livejournal.com
Yay, I got it right! That would have been embarrassing if I hadn't! 8-)

Date: 2007-09-12 05:28 am (UTC)
cos: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cos
It's easy for those of you who get to vote "Me!"

Date: 2007-09-12 10:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] australian-joe.livejournal.com
Not as easy as you might think. There have been both additions and subtractions from the formal list, and there are boundary cases which might not be clear. 8-)

Date: 2007-09-12 01:05 pm (UTC)
jasra: (wispfox and me)
From: [personal profile] jasra
That's why we thought it would be so interesting. :D

Date: 2007-09-12 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] australian-joe.livejournal.com
Mm, and I haven't always agreed with her as to what the answers actually were. 8-)

Date: 2007-09-12 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
Yes. :)

*confuses everyone* Yay!

Date: 2007-09-12 01:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
Except that there's at least one 'Me!' answer who I am _not_ dating! :)

Date: 2007-09-12 06:47 pm (UTC)
cos: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cos
Perhaps you should be? :)

Or, if not, tell us who it is!

Date: 2007-09-12 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
Well, yes. Considering that I used the reply of a 'me!' in order to determine if someone was, in fact, yet dating me yet, the answer was uncertain in _my_ head. :)

Thus checkboxes!

Date: 2007-09-12 12:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marmota.livejournal.com
Aww, no "at least one less than you could be" answer option?

Date: 2007-09-12 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
Cripes! No! Because I am fully aware that there are more people that I could be dating than I am, and my head hurts even trying to envision that particular set of people. :)

Date: 2007-09-12 12:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kar0na.livejournal.com
I totally got this wrong, even knowing you are poly, because the only person I ever ever EVER hear you mention as a mate is australian_joe.

*meww*

Date: 2007-09-12 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
Yep. See, I mostly don't talk about people I'm dating. I don't know why. I've been pretty consistent about this, though! :)

I really didn't expect most people to be able to answer it accurately, _anyway_, since the official list was in the process of changing (indeed, I updated my user info based on one person's reply, as that was in an uncertain state). So even people I _am_ dating might answer more than one way. :)

Date: 2007-09-14 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baratron.livejournal.com
Meh, you knocked me off your "friends" list, so I can't see who you're dating :P

That's the only reason I'd care to be on it, you know :P ;)

Date: 2007-09-15 09:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com
you missed "one more than you think, even taking this option into account" :)

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