Polls for voting at boing boing

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I’d like the option to add poll questions to posts that others can vote on. It’d be nice if the polls could have options to be either public or anonymous and a way to restrict brand new accounts from voting to rig results. Or maybe also a way to break down poll results to show what percentage are from single-purpose accounts on different sides of the voting pool would also be fun.

I’d like options for multiple choice, etc. - I know some don’t like polls, but they can just ignore them or perhaps there can be an option to hide all polls from view.

Polls. It’ll be interesting.

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You can already do this, give it a shot in the sandbox at http://try.discourse.org – there is a permanent demo poll topic there as well.

Probably a few ways they could be improved with your suggestions, but try the simple way out first.

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Wow, thank you for showing me that! I had no idea. I should RTFM or something.

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Well polls are relatively new and were only in testing mode for a while prior to this. So there was no way to know unless you were following Discourse development on http://meta.discourse.org – which is very Inside Baseball, not everyone’s cup of tea.

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I’m not able to sign in over there, do I have to set up a new account to test the polls over there?

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Yes, it is an independent site – so log in there and create an account however you like.

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