Continuing the discussion from How to Create Polls:
What is it that triggers the clearing of a poll?
Is it just editing the [poll] tags and anything between them?
Or would editing any other part of a post that contains a poll also clear the poll?
AI-generated summary
Consequences of editing post containing poll: The discussion revolves around the behavior of polls in Discourse when edited. According to Jonathan5, all votes are cleared when a poll is edited to prevent the poll creator from changing the choices a user voted for. darkpixlz expresses dissatisfaction with this behavior, suggesting that votes should not be wiped when the poll is edited. However, JammyDodger clarifies that only editing the poll itself resets the votes. Editing text above or below the poll has no effect on the votes. Additionally, there is a 5-minute window to edit the poll without triggering a reset. After this window, renaming the poll is required to make changes, which also resets the votes.
I think that it’s pretty dumb that all votes get completely wiped every time I edit a post. I get that it’s dangerous to let people edit options and keep it, but if I add, remove, or edit the poll it shouldn’t completely wipe it.
Do you mean that editing the post (even without editing the poll) clears the poll?
If so, I suppose the answer is to have nothing but the poll in the original post and have any further comments in a second post.
It’s only editing the poll itself that resets the votes. You also only have a 5 minute window to edit without it telling you you can’t any more. After that time you’d need to rename it to put a ‘new’ one in (which would also reset the votes).
You can edit any text above/below and it will have no effect on the votes. 