busy like a fox! (seriously, I bet they're pretty busy what with the rodent-hunting and all. But I'm too busy to research that, which in turn disappoints me a bit).

Anyway, yes, I can see a decent reason to rearrange that rule set a bit, but I'm not confident that polls are a good driver of discussion. I mean ... if someone asks you a question with three choices, there's only maybe 8 or 9 posts that can reasonably follow that before the thread contents get absurdly redundant. "Well, I like Horo better because she's a freaky wolf-chick!" "Well, I like Kallen better because she's Kallen goddammit!".

Poll structure is also pretty limiting. You've basically got a short list of questions, when a lot of things you'd want to ask are pretty open-ended. Like, the horo/kallen topic could be better expressed in terms of favorite voice actors and their ranges.... for example talking about how some voice actors end up typecast as exactly the same damned character across 15 different series (eg: secondary love interest in a romantic comedy) where others get cast as different roles and different characters. Or how some voice actors are so easily-identifiable that they can't help but be typecast (eg: Norio Wakamoto), where others have dozens of voices and make up a new persona for every role they play. But asking "Which voice is better: Cell or Onsokomaru" in a poll leaves no real room for anything but a stilted discussion, where "Who's the most versatile voice actor" or "who's the most recognizable voice actor" or any of a dozen other similar questions leave the whole question open.

So yeah... I think that asking cross-series questions doesn't really fall into the "one thread per series" rule, but I'm not really in favor of the constraints that the "poll and thread" format place on the discussion.