DPoll: Get Instant Feedback From An Active User Base | Media DApp Review

DPoll is a decentralized polling platform, a kind of community where opinion seekers create polls and receive votes and feedbacks from the members of the community.

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To make the best decision in business, social or any other environment, there are certain things you need to consider. A good decision is only made when you have taken into account the necessary procedure needed to avoid making a bad decision. It has to do with information gathering about various ways of getting a job done or achieving an objective, thereby carefully evaluating them one after the other, so as to end up settling with only the BEST among the options. Being responsible for decision-making is a very heavy burden because you are held for the outcome of your decisions. That is why you see intelligent decision makers consulting the opinions of several people and evaluating them carefully so as to end up making the best decision.

The thing is you cannot be too intelligent. You cannot know everything about something and to be candid, there is nothing bad in that. Just ensure you know something (no matter how small) about everything around you.

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Introducing DPoll

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There are various ways you can consult people to seek their opinions about something. One of the most effective among these is creating polls. With polls, you get to learn what the majority think about something and you can use this in making a decision. As well, polls can be used for educational research and survey purposes.

DPoll is a blockchain-based platform created to allow people to seek for opinions of the public about something by creating polls. It is built on STEEM blockchain and hence, polls appear as posts on the creators' Steemit blogs. As well, voters’ feedbacks (comments) act as votes and they appear on Steemit as well.

DPoll is currently ranked 51 on StateOnTheDapps.

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Getting Started With DPoll

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Type in dpoll.xyz to visit their homepage.

Click on Login at the top right corner to sign-up using SteemConnect. Now click on Continue.

Provide your Steemit username and Posting key in the required fields. Your Posting key is situated under Permissions in your Steemit Wallet page. Click on Show Posting Key, copy it and paste it in the required field on DPoll page and click on Sign In.

You should be redirected to DPoll homepage and now you are in.

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Creating a Poll on DPoll

Creating polls in DPoll is pretty easy. First, click on Create Poll situated at the top right.

Below is a screen grab of the poll creation page. Type in your Question and provide some Descriptions. Scroll down and put in some Answer options. Include some relevant Tags, set poll Expiry date, set your Reward option and click on Submit.

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Main Components of DPoll

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Built on STEEM

DPoll is one of the most used DApps built on STEEM blockchain. In order to use this platform, you need to have a Steemit user account. DPoll uses SteemConnect to link with user's Steemit account when signing up.

Polls and Votes

Polls appear on the creator's Steemit blog as posts. Voters can use DPoll platform to cast their votes or simply leave comments on the poll posts on Steemit directly. The comments act as votes and the poll creator can easily see his feedback on Replies section on his Steemit blog.

Incentivizes contributors through Steemit's reward-earning mechanism

Both poll creators and voters receive rewards for using the platform through the Steemit upvote-earning reward mechanism. DPoll has an account that upvotes contributors based on the quality of their contributions. These upvotes yield STEEM and SBD tokens which can be exchanged for other cryptocurrencies or fiat.

Open Source

DPoll is an Open Source application which makes it available for open source contributors to freely work or contribute on to increase the application efficiency.

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Why I like DPoll

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• Helps in opinions gathering and decision making: DPoll creates a channel for opinion seekers and a community where educational surveys can be carried out.
• Simple and straightforward UX: DPoll has a very simple and straightforward interface to give users perfect experience.
• Decentralized poll and survey data: Having DPoll built on a blockchain means the data gathered during survey or poll are decentralized, secure and cannot be manipulated.
• Rewards contributors: DPoll provides incentives for its contributors by upvoting their contributions based on the quality. It creates another way of earning coins on Steemit.

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Where I think DPoll Needs Improvement On

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It is my belief that having at least a mobile application will increase the efficiency of this platform. Mobile apps have better function, flexibility and responsiveness. These days, having mobile application defines the integrity of website applications.

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Conclusion and Star Rating

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No doubt, DPoll has significance on Steemit.com and STEEM blockchain. It opens the door for a community of special interest and the project is awesome. I would rate it 4/5.

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• https://github.com/emre/dpoll.xyz

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• @StateOfTheDApps website
• @DPoll on StateOfTheDApps
• DPoll website
• Task link