7+ options for a poll is a bad idea unless asking about something like a favorite psychedelic. The results would be too spreaded and it would take an unreasonable amount of answers to give good results. I'd rather not go over 5 options.
On the matter of erowid-style edits, that will probably be a new policy for us. Not sure if posts can be reported for it, probably not the best idea.
I worry that if we poll for 'cutoff doses' people will consider it a good idea to start off with that because they want to trip as hard as possible right away. Polling for starting doses seems to me to give a much more healthy suggestion. What is dangerous? Starting at a fair threshold and then carefully working your way up to your own cutoff, or starting with a consensus cutoff and not going higher? I think it would be bad if people would start too high. Titrating with every batch from an acceptable dose is the way to go isn't it?
Yes I would agree that even when titrating it is good to stop at a certain point that is considered risky to pass, unfortunately we can do only 1 poll per thread and I am not convinced we should change it. I am open to other opinions (*We are).
I don't know if I'm not communicating myself to you correctly, but you still seem to be missing the very crucial point that
the editing of posts to apply public warnings will be in response to the reportage of an unacceptably high dose. How can we know what is an unacceptably high dose unless we have some public consensus about it? Knowing what people consider to be a good starting dose to titrate up from tells us
utterly nothing about what people consider to be a dangerous dose.
There seems to be some breakdown in logic here. We already know people should be titrating their doses up from threshold; that is an entirely separate issue from the one we're trying to address here. We need to know how to screen the posts to be edited, (not how to make recommendations for the best starting dose), and to do that we need to get a feel for the lowest common denominator of dosage that people have found to be scary/dangerous/too much.
Making a poll about what people have found to be an overwhelming dose doesn't mean that people are going to start going out and dosing at that dose. I'm sure people on here can read the poll title.
EDIT
I'd just like to add this, to further illustrate my point: Currently, 72% of people think that 500-1000ug is a good STARTING DOSE. Does that mean that everyone should go out and start titrating from 1mg upwards. Of course not, because that dose may already be way too much for some people to handle. In fact, the way the poll is at the moment, it may actually be more harmful, because you will have lots of people thinking that it is safe to start at a particular dose, when it may very well not be. People should be starting low regardless of what other people say.
This tells us nothing about what we need to know. Please scrap this poll and start again.