Why all these polls?

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I'm sure many of you have seen my various posts questioning what compels someone to start some of the threads with polls. I'm really curious about this. Some of the topics are so ridiculous, posing choices that people are extraordinarily unlikely to ever encounter in real life (not to mention the endless worry polls about whether liking transgurls makes you gay!).

Does anyone want to venture a guess as to what drives people to start such threads?