FAQs
Can anyone vote in a poll?
Even with no group voting restrictions on the poll itself, users must be able to reply to the topic where the poll is created in order to participate. Users with see only permissions will not be able to vote.
Can polls be edited?
All votes are cleared when a poll is edited, to ensure the poll creator can’t change the choices a user voted for. As such, by default polls can only be edited for a grace period of 5 minutes after being created.
Votes cannot be recovered once a poll is edited and the votes are cleared
Can I export poll data for further analysis?
Staff can use the Discourse Data Explorer - Plugin - Discourse Meta to export poll data as a csv, which can be imported into the data analysis program of their choice.