Hi, Elon.

We’ve been following your Mars colony news with all the wonder and curiosity our parents probably felt at the moon landing.

Then we watched this perfectly good Q&A get derailed by a few (drunk?) audience members…

Yeah. As someone who could be building rockets instead of answering questions about space poop, you handled that incredibly well. But we owe you a bit of an apology, because, frankly, we could have prevented this.

How the Q&A could have gone…

Rather than allowing the most uninhibited audience members to dominate the mic, we have a Q&A poll that quickly and silently collects everyone’s questions at once: both the bold and brash essayists, and the real knowledge-seekers. Then, just as instantly, everyone in the audience votes those questions up or down the ranking. Within a minute or two, you have an audience-ranked list of the best-of-the-best questions to answer.

And there’s more: If you, as the speaker, see a question that deserves attention, you can pin it to the top yourself. You can dismiss unwanted questions. You can highlight a question for focused discussion. It’s all up to you.

Here’s that same Q&A, ranked by the audience

From the most-loved questions down…

The least salient questions have been democratically relegated the bottom of the list, where you can choose to ignore or address them.

Q&A polling is designed to steer the discussion where it’s supposed to go. Equal opportunity, but focused.

This is what we want for you, and SpaceX, and Mars travel. Good, space-age conversations, less crazy-crazy.

Your loyal fans,
The Poll Everywhere Team

P.S. Please, let us streamline your next Q&A, free of charge. It’s our humble contribution to the cause.

 

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