ADMIN: The Polls Do NOT show email addresses (except Location Poll)

[borg3892000 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26429

The "Do you read any Harry Potter-inspired fanfiction?" poll also 
shows the individual votes.  But examining it shows that it was from 
January.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce <pennylin at s...> wrote:
> Hi all --
> 
> I nearly had a heart attack when Heidi called me to say people were 
> complaining that the polls showed individual votes, because of 
course, 
> they were not doing so yesterday when I last checked them last 
night & I 
> had definitely not set them up in that manner.  I wondered if Yahoo 
had 
> suddenly flipped out.
> 
> I am relieved to report that only the Location Poll is showing 
> individual votes.  The Location poll, as I said yesterday, is an 
*OLDER* 
> poll set up by Ebony back in January.  She did set it up to show 
emails 
> because at that time we were encouraging the formation of regional 
HP4GU 
> groups, so it clearly made sense for people to know who else from 
HP4GU 
> was in their individual region of the world.
> 
> So, just to recap, none of the other polls that I set up yesterday 
are 
> showing emails or identities in any way.
> 
> Thanks to Neil and Cassie for clarifying what I thought was obvious 
> yesterday: if you don't like the idea of revealing this information 
> about yourself, even in a blind poll, and/or don't care about our 
> group's diversity, then just don't participate.
> 
> Penny