It’s not possible to create polls when the last poll option starts with a #.
@Adrian_D_Atri_Guiran discovered this bug.
This works:
[poll]
- #1
- 2
[/poll]
This doesn’t work:
[poll]
- 1
- #2
[/poll]
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Ok but… why should this matter? I agree it is a bug, but … don’t do that? 
It came from an import from an old phpbb3 forum. I had no idea what was crashing the importer script until i started editing files and printing stuff all over the place. I’m fine with the importer just skipping the poll, but hard crashing isn’t a super great solution, especially for people who are new to discourse and are migrating from phpbb and have absolutely no clue where to start looking for the problem.
I agree, the importer shouldn’t crash and I’ll fix that.
But the real issue is that the poll plugin has problems with certain text that looks like markdown.
This has problems too:
[poll]
- 24. November
- 26. November
[/poll]
There’s no problem when the last option doesn’t look like a numbered list:
[poll]
- 24. November
- 26. November
- some other date
[/poll]
Of course, that’s an option. But I guess documenting the issues is a better solution.
In case someone else stumbles upon the same problems, here’s an easy workaround: Escape the problematic symbols in the poll options by prepending \ to it. The following examples work:
[poll]
- 1
- \#2
[/poll]
[poll]
- 24. November
- 26\. November
[/poll]
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Would you mind tagging this topic with poll ?
This is triggering a JavaScript error @tgxworld so it is worth fixing, if possible (at least stop console from filling with errors)
If too hard we can defer on #markdown-it-review
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Let’s defer it to #markdown-it-review, this is a bug in better-markdown.js where the following is generated incorrectly.
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Yay this works now:
- 1
- #2
0 voters
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