Polls and Surveys

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The Polls/Surveys system built into vBulletin is absolutely abysmal. It was actually one of the very few downgrades we suffered when we moved from UbbThreads.

One of the key gripes I had was that there was no way to have the option to prevent someone from seeing the results without voting first. There were other problems with the system which I won't even begin to get into. It's been mostly unused it recent years.

Today we begin testing an upgraded polling system.

- People will be able to view results AFTER they vote (poll creators can view polls and threads without voting).
- Only an initial post in a poll thread will be viewable without voting.
- Polls can be created by Admins, Mods, and Donors at the $100 level to date, and then only in 2 sections: Polls/Surveys, and the New Products/Mods/Services section. Depending how that works out we may or may not expand access to the poll features.

Again, the upgrades have had only (literally) a few minutes of testing. Please, if anyone (post creator or other viewer) sees anything off base, please let me know.
 
As mentioned, it's a new code base and if there are any problems that arise, technical or otherwise, I'd prefer to ease into them. It's not the first time a test or new feature has started out with select active users and/or library donors. I like gentle roll-outs in case of surprises (ie: iTrader... but that's another story).

So no more(or very few) poll's,gotcha

No more? Quite the opposite. The entire poll system has been turned off for something like 3 years now. We already had a new one today. So far the system is behaving.

Bend over!

- M1A

Kind of an odd things to say. Aren't you in the group that can post a poll already?
 
The first message in this thread said the feature is being tested in the Polls section and in Trading Products. Krajkerjac posted a poll in the later, currently 4th thread from the top. It has a bar graph icon in the second column.
 
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