Just get in two full sentences of your own opinions on your topic. Usually people use the first post to accomplish it (reply to your own post).

That rule is stupid anyways

Unless there's a better way to prevent polls from flooding....

As long as someone isn’t spamming, it’s not like there are a ton of posts here anyways.

Ya it's more like a balance between moderators' workload and extent of restrictions. Different for every wiki (assuming they would all like to keep their wiki's under order).

It's a good rule, It opens up the debate for people to argue against/for

If you cant talk about the topic yourself, its not a discussion is it