I’ve been at events with spectrograms and they are super fun and informative, and a quick shortcut to gauging where people are at and how their opinions change as arguments are made during the course of the exercise.
What I’d like to see in polls is the ability to allow a comment each time a vote is cast and each time a vote is changed, and the ability to see the transformation visually as time passes until a deadline is reached and a decision is taken or the exercise is ended.
This is what loomio does quite well, though not (I don’t think) with a nifty spectrogram visual interface. It’s been a while since I’ve looked at the project.
I’ve talked about this before. Ah. Here it is..
https://meta.discourse.org/t/loomio-integration/7661/3?u=tobiaseigen