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2022-04-26, 11:18
Taking a poll on an issue is a better way to indicate user support for (or resistance to) it than a disordered array of +1's and likes down the thread. Compare XDA Developers. Or Telegram channels.
If it is possible, I ask how to do it because it is not explained in the Help section.
If not, I submit a feature request.
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If you need special permissions to post polls then I guess my question why even developers don't use them is answered. Nobody likes to beg.
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I checked the groups and settings, and it is indeed currently only team members and moderators who can start polls (although general users can post in them).
We can maybe take some internal team discussions as to whether this is something to widen or not to allow trusted users to also start polls.
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Before going into session consider the following: Anything can be overdone, any privilege granted is certain to result in abused. However, from the point of view of management of your forum it is better to be faced with an abuse of polling than with an abuse of posting. A polling thread shall by definition contain just one post. A posting thread? A clutter.
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Enabling/disabling polling is just a tick-box for the user groups here. At the moment it's enabled for mods and team members, but not for regular users. To change that is simply adding in a tick to the regular user group (same way that regular users gain the privs for PMs etc).
If it is switched on, polls would be available to add to any thread, there isn't a way to make it just for single post threads only.
Give us a little while to have an internal team discussion as to whether it should be enabled or not - it's more an admin question than a technical one from this point.
