About
Opinion, counted in the open.
NPolls is a public polling site. We ask one clear question at a time, count one vote per person, and show the running result the moment you cast yours — no waiting, no hidden totals, no editor deciding what the answer should have been.
Why we built it
Most places that ask what you think do something else with the answer. A social feed rewards the loudest reply. A comment section rewards the first one. A news site runs a poll, then writes the headline it was always going to write. In all three the number is decoration.
NPolls treats the number as the point. A poll here is a single question with a fixed set of answers, open to anyone, with the tally visible to everyone at the same time. That constraint is what makes the result worth anything — and it is why we would rather run one honest question than twenty engagement traps.
Around each poll there is a discussion, because a percentage on its own rarely explains itself. Fifty-fifty can mean a country genuinely split, or a question badly worded. The comments are where that gets sorted out, so we give them real space: threaded replies, reactions, and a public profile behind every opinion.
How it works
Five steps, in order. You can stop after the first one — voting never requires an account.
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Find a question worth answering
Polls are grouped by subject: Geopolitics, Anime, Celebrities, Gaming and Tech. Each one is a single question with between two and ten possible answers.
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Vote, and see the result immediately
The tally appears as soon as your vote lands — you never have to hand over an email address to find out what everyone else said. One vote per person per poll, and votes are final: allowing changes would let a result be walked back once it stopped being the one somebody wanted.
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Say why
Comments sit under every poll and every article, with threaded replies and six reactions. Signing in takes a username, an email address and a password, and nothing else — we do not ask for your real name, your age, or your phone number.
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Read the longer version
Some questions need more than a percentage. Those become articles in the blog — background, numbers, and usually the poll itself embedded in the page so you can vote without leaving the piece.
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Build a record
Your votes, comments and reactions collect on your profile, which you can keep private or make public. Members can follow each other, and each month we highlight the most constructive contributors through Monthly Gifts.
What we hold to
Four commitments. They are the reason several obvious growth tactics are not available to us.
Results stay visible
Totals are public from the first vote. We do not gate them behind a signup, and we do not close a poll because the result went somewhere we did not expect.
One person, one vote
Duplicate voting is blocked per account and per device. It is not perfect — nothing on the open web is — but the checks are real, and we would rather have a smaller honest number than a large decorative one.
The minimum data
We ask for a username, an email address and a password. We do not sell data, we do not run third-party advertising trackers, and results are only ever published in aggregate. The privacy policy lists every field.
Argument, not abuse
Disagreement is the whole point; harassment is not. Comments can be reported, moderators act on them, and removed content earns nothing — including toward Monthly Gifts.
Who runs it
A small team. If you email us, one of these people reads it.
Tarik Orabai
Founder
Maria Garcia
Engineering
David Chen
Design
Sarah Manari
EditorialGetting in touch
Corrections, poll suggestions, a question that should be on the site, or a problem with something we published — all of it goes to the same place. Use the contact form, or write to contact@npolls.com.
If you think a poll is worded to steer the answer, tell us. That is the single most useful message we get, and we have rewritten questions because of it.