I think polls are a good thing. They are actually one of the most sharable formats off-site. This site has an advantage in that its polls differ from most sites'. Most sites typically use the most basic poll possible. These typically only let you pick one option. And downvoting isn't an option. So this site is uniquely good for ranking things.

When sharing something on a Reddit clone, a few may ask, "Why didn't you just post it here?" With the polls, there is the excuse, "I can do something on that site that I can't do here." So if someone makes a poll, there is a good chance that I'll end up sharing it on other sites.

So basically, we can't have too many polls. Also, they are good in general and make the site more interesting.

Obviously, I can make a post encouraging them. But it would also be good to have a UI/UX solution to encourage it, because a post only encourages something for a week or so. Polls are very easy to make, but they aren't that obvious because most people aren't in the habit of using Matrix Commands. I did add a link to a formatting guide in the comments section. But very few people are going to read that.

And rather than think about this too deeply, I think it would be fun to open up the floor to a community brainstorming session. How do we make a design that encourages more people to make polls? Let's say our top metric was unique poll-creating users a month. How would we make that number as large as possible?