But you need to still have an account to do both the Player Poll's and access the Forums so it is still the exact same people completing the official poll and any posted on the forum. I am not seriously suggesting that the dev team see a poll on the forum look at the result and then act on it from just that single poll. The problem with the forum atm is so many people are posting so much crap about the same things in topics. With a poll anyone would be able to look at the options and see which turn out to be favourite very quickly without trawling though the entire thread. Also with the like system then they could go into the thread and find the post people liked a lot and go into it further.

I really can't see the harm in adding a poll system to the forum, how is it any worse than all the "petition this" threads at the minute. It would just allow you to see which was the favoured outcome more quickly.