What's the best way to create a Poll on the STEEM Network...?

Good afternoon, everyone!

Introduction: What do I need a Poll for...?

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2 Days ago I've started an initiative to support undervalued artistic works on this platform. The post is here: Art Curation Initiative #1 - Help Me Select 3 Artists to Reward With SBI Shares

My initial idea was to feature a few artists and use the earnings of the post to buy SBI shares for them. I had to be realistic and assume I'd get enough for 3 shares... but there were more than 10 works I pre-selected to include in my post. Then I've narrowed it down to 8 choices.

Obviously I couldn't guarantee that all 8 would earn a SBI share, so I've decided to create a Poll to reward 3 of them, based on the choices of the community.

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The Problem

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This is where I stumbled. How could I create a Poll in the STEEM Network, without using an external website?

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For the kind of Poll I wish to create, I only see two options and here are my thoughts about them:

1) Make several comments on my post with the names of the artists and ask people to upvote those comments;

• Pros
  -- Easier to validate the results;
  -- The comment section will not turn into a mess of comments;
  -- Artists won't be bothered with a notification every time someone votes for them;

• Cons
  -- Users need to waste a bit of their Voting Power to cast their votes;
  -- Most users with low SP don't know how to cast a vote using only 1% of their Voting Power;
  -- Users with very little Resource Credits aren't able to vote 4 times in a row;

2) Ask people to post a comment with the names of their favourite artists;

• Pros
  -- Users can cast votes without losing any of their Voting Power;
  -- More users with low SP and low RC will be able to participate;

• Cons
  -- Validating the results will take more time and effort;
  -- The comment section will become a terrible spaghetti accident;
  -- Artists will be bothered with a notification every time someone votes for them;

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Waiting for a Solution

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I know about DPoll but it doesn't allow for multiple choices.

I'd really like to have a simple way of creating a Poll directly in the STEEM Network.

This could be easily achieved. Instead of merely having the options of Voting or Flagging, posts could be created with more Upvoting Options and users would simply upvote the posts using the right option (or multiple options.)

Of course this could create the possibility of not so honest people upvoting their own posts multiple times, thus leeching the Reward Pool even more... so that's easier said than done.

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Well, I'll leave that for the STEEM Developers to figure out. Meanwhile...

For my first post, I went with the first option:

I'm conflicted. I really like this option... but I hate to see that newbies are wasting full votes to make their choices:

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Let Me Hear Your Opinions

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• Which option should I use for this initiative, which I intend to run weekly...? And why?

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@trincowski signing out.