Poll:How do they work?

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Intro Text

  • Item one is what you really want.
  • Item two

Here are your choices:

  • Option 1
  • Option 2

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Its going to use the first block of listed options as a poll. The rest stay text.

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copied and pasted straight from discourse/plugins/poll at main Ā· discourse/discourse Ā· GitHub and it didnt work like it should haveā€¦

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I was just able to change the text as well for the buttons.

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thats for the plugin, it looks like the site has it enabled now so you dont need as much crap

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@AlexRhodes found a legit bug, the plugin is ignoring the [poll] tag. Iā€™ve submitted a bug report.

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weird thing, you can change your vote after seeing the results. not sure if that is great for an accurate poll, as follower bias may be an issue.

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i was just thinking about that, you can edit the options too. and you dont have to be a member.

we might want to try the plugin for polls and see if we like it better. i know it has a lockout on edits and revoting

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Thereā€™s another polls plugin? I only found the one thatā€™s built-in.

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ill have to find it again, i abandoned it when this one looked good.

someone wrote one when they had it disabled for testing and it had some good features

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Cool, Its nice having these options and Iā€™m enjoying the flexibility so far.

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I need a multiselection poll, so voters could vote for more than one option. Do we have the capability of doing that?

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I donā€™t think it has the ability. One option would be to start a topic and have a reply for each ā€œoptionā€. Then have people ā€œlikeā€ the replies they are voting for.

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Thanks. I guess that could work, but Iā€™ve compiled a list of about forty topics that people have asked for in previous discussions. That would be a lot of replies!

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Another idea would be to create a google form for it.