We get many e-mails from readers every week, but after over 8 years of telling you what we think, and only occasionally launching campaigns to gather your views, we have decided that Webb-site.com should become much more interactive. So during the Chinese New Year break, your editor relaxed with some VBscript coding and produced a customised, database-driven and web-managed polling system for the site. Now, within a few minutes, we can launch an opinion poll on any issue we want. If you are on our mailing list, then at the top of today's newsletter you will have received a 4-digit PIN. If you want, you can change your PIN to something more memorable. This, together with the corresponding e-mail address, will allow you to vote on our polling system. To join our list, or to receive a PIN reminder, just click here. We will not publish your e-mail address or individual votes, just the aggregate results. You will be able to retrieve any previous votes you have cast, and if the poll has not closed, then you can change or remove your vote. The PIN system is not intended to be bullet-proof, but we think it will make for more reliable polling. It ensures that your e-mail address was valid when we sent the PIN, and you can only vote once, unless you go to the trouble of multiple e-mail addresses. We consider that to be a higher barrier to multiple voting than the common system of cookies and/or IP numbers, which allows you to vote multiple times from different PCs or browsers. Cookies would also make it difficult for two people to vote from the same PC. We will kick off by testing the system with 2 Polls. The first relates to our recent articles on the MPF system. The second, which might run for quite a long time, relates to the bigger picture - are we, as a civilisation, alone in the Universe, and if not, then when will we, or they, know for sure? We'll be adding more Polls after we check that the system is working well. If you have a policy area, preferably affecting Hong Kong directly or indirectly, and would like us to run an opinion poll on it, then contact us and we will try to help. Now without further ado, go and vote! Copyright Webb-site.com, 2007 Sign up for our free newsletter Recommend Webb-site.com to a friend Important notice: All material on this site, except where otherwise accredited, is copyright to Webb-site.com. Media and researchers are welcome to quote from articles on this site, provided that such quotation is attributed to Webb-site.com. The information in this site should not be relied upon by any person in making any investment decision. No responsibility or liability is accepted by Webb-site.com or any person related to it for any loss arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this site. Persons who are in any doubt about an investment or potential investment should take professional investment advice. From time to time parties associated with Webb-site.com may own long or short positions in securities issued by or related to companies or governments on which we comment. |