[Tools-discuss] polls "show of hands": can we include a "i don't understand" or "not enough information" option

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[e-mail]>]

Currently, when there's a show of hands in meetecho, there are two
actions any participant can take:

 - raise my hand
 - do not raise my hand

in my experience, if a meeting has 100 participants, you're lucky to get
50 that select either of the above options.  At least half tend to give
no response at all.

There are two reasons to give neither response though:

 - the question is confusing, invalid, wrong, i didn't understand it, or
   i'm not sure of the answer

 - i am asleep/bored/not paying attention

It'd be nice to be able to to distinguish between these two large
classes of non-responding participants.  This is akin to including an
"N/A" or "Don't know" answer in a multiple choice survey.

Could such a option be added?  I don't want clutter with a dozen extra
options, but it would be useful to know how many people are paying
attention but object to the binary framing for whatever reason.

       --dkg