Multiple Choice Poll questions

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In a Support discussion titled “Multiple Choice Poll questions” tagged with polls, Loki asks two questions: whether options can be added to an existing poll without losing prior votes, and whether poll font size can be reduced to save space. zogstrip replies that adding options without resetting votes isn’t possible — the poll must be closed and recreated — and while font size can be adjusted, the default is intended to be visually appropriate. Loki requests guidance on reducing font size without HTML knowledge, and shares a screenshot showing the poll’s large footprint image. zogstrip tests a sample poll format. Loki clarifies the use case: a dynamic list of sub-features where users vote over time, and adding new options shouldn’t erase existing votes. The current workaround — appending new polls — looks awkward. zogstrip suggests using the Discourse Voting plugin, and JammyDodger adds that the Post Voting plugin may also help. The discussion highlights limitations of native polls and points toward plugin-based solutions for dynamic voting needs.

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  1. Is it possible to add options to a multiple choice poll but not lose all the previous votes when doing so?

  2. Is it possible to reduce the font size of a multiple choice poll so that it doesn’t take up so much space (currently the font is significantly larger than the surrounding text).

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No. Close the poll and do another one.

Sure but that seems weird, the default should look :ok:.

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Okay, so then, how do you reduce the font size of the poll? (I’m not knowledgeable in HTML.)

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BTW, here is what it looks like. It seems the poll section could be much more compressed. It gets quite big for a long list of multiple choice options.

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Let’s try here

  • Option 1
  • Option 2
  • Option 3
0 voters
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I should have provided more info… this is a situation where we have a running list of features that that we want to allow users to express their interest in. These are actually “sub-features” of one particular area, so we don’t want to create a whole bunch of separate topics for them to vote on. However, occasionally new sub-features are added to the list. We want users to be able to express their interest in the new ones without having everybody’s votes deleted when we add them to the poll.

The only workaround I’ve found for this is to add a new poll right after the first one each time new features are added to the list. But it ends up looking pretty awkward.

Ideas?

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Maybe use the voting plugin?

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We also have the Post Voting plugin now which may also be of some use: