<i>"1 Mar: Polls<p>Since polls are so common on News.YC, we just added explicit support for them. To prevent the site being swamped by polls for the next few days, we'd appreciate it if you'd only use this feature because there was something you already wanted to ask. There isn't currently any link to it, so you have to go to <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll</a> to make a poll, and for the time being only users with over 200 karma can make them. Once people get used to this we'll open it up to everyone."</i><p>Seems that has now been reduced to 20 karma - but I believe the logic of not linking to it to prevent polls taking over the site still stands.