I didn't know about stats but if that's the thing where you have to let everyone see where you've been as well as how many leave footprints, I'm not keen.
You can set that feature off, and stats will still tell you how many LJ users or how many hits you've gotten on your LJ, or particular entries, etc., going back to September or so. I believe it's only available to paid account users, though.

I know that leaving a poll would probably be useful but I'd feel a little like I was fishing for compliments...
This isn't an uncommon sentiment, going by others' responses.

Primarily because I'm lazy and I love ticky boxes.
I think I owe any poll success to these two factors in general. :P