Congress should reinstate Assault Weapon Ban?

[melensdad]

There is a poll on one of the NBC news websites asking if we think that congress should reinstate the AWB that expired in 2004.

When I voted it was 50% - YES and 50% - NO

You have to scroll down and look on the right side of the page for the poll:
Local News, Weather, TV Schedules, Entertainment - WCAU | Philadelphia - NBC Channel 10

 

[abnk]

Can you make the link cold?

 

[melensdad]

Can you make the link cold?

WTF does make the link 'cold' mean? I'm old and not a computer geek so I don't know all the terms some people use. Click on the link I provided, scroll down and vote. The vote takes place on the page I provided, all you have to do is scroll down and vote right on that page.

 

[Mini-14]

I voted..Still 50/50 even tho more votes for no than yes.

 

[NateIU10]

cold means not clickable (not hotlinked) so the site doesnt get a bunch of referrals from a gun forum and pull the poll

 

[abnk]

WTF does make the link 'cold' mean? I'm old and not a computer geek so I don't know all the terms some people use. Click on the link I provided, scroll down and vote. The vote takes place on the page I provided, all you have to do is scroll down and vote right on that page.

So much anger.

What you have is a hotlink, which can be traced. If too many votes come from such link, the pollsters could suspect spaming and discount votes coming from that certain hotlink.

Making it cold is making so that it's not clickable.

For example:

Google and google.com (the former is hot and the latter cold)

Edited to add: Nate beat me to it. Thanks.

 

[melensdad]

cold means not clickable (not hotlinked) so the site doesnt get a bunch of referrals from a gun forum and pull the poll

Seems to me if someone knows how to do that they can add a post with that as an option?

I tried pasting the link again, clicking on the Non-Linking icon and that didn't make the link 'cold' so I don't know how the heck to do it.

FWIW, I posted this on 4 different gun forums so its going to get inundated from all over the place. I'm sure it is now copied and pasted on several other gun forums by now too.

 

[abnk]

I tried pasting the link again, clicking on the Non-Linking icon and that didn't make the link 'cold' so I don't know how the heck to do it.

This forum does not appear to allow the option of pasting an "unclickable" link. Just remove the www from the link and you should be good.

It's 51% in our favor now.

 

[SilentWarrior1]

Yes/No was at 49/51% respectively at 1:51p when I voted.

 

[melensdad]

This forum does not appear to allow the option of pasting an "unclickable" link. Just remove the www from the link and you should be good.

It's 51% in our favor now.

w.nbc10.com/index.html

OK that is it above, just add the http://ww as a prefix. But I don't think it will make a hill of beans. This is a very small internet forum. There won't be that many click-thru votes from here. Now the guys at AR15.com will eat something like this poll alive.

 

[Disposable Heart]

Funny thing is that its for Philadelphia. Watched their news once when I visited on a business trip. Most hostile towards guns environment Ive been in. However, after traveling around the art museum, you start to see why. Wall to wall murder rates in that town. Anything that seems to diminish crime is voted for automatically.

 

[abnk]

I think this poll is related to a police officer being killed in Philadelphia a few days ago. I think the killer had an AR or AK.

 

[melensdad]

Well the voting has turned in our favor.

Currently 57% favor keeping "Assault Weapons" legal while 43% want the ban reinstated.

 

[jimbo-indy]

When I voted, a minute ago it was 58/42, in our favor.

 

[quicksdraw]

It's still 58% to 42% in our favor.

 

[Lars]

60/40

 

[hunter480]

If only whatever the poll said was going to make any difference at all anyway.

 

[Barry in IN]

62/38 in our favor now

 

[Finna]

64 No to 36 Yes everyone must vote

 

[esrice]

66/34 our favor