That feels like something that shouldn’t be decided with a straight poll. Or, at least, not with the current polls that Discourse has today.
Ideally, something to do that would be something like:
- you have a list of ‘candidates’
- each person can choose, for each candidate, Elect or Don’t Elect or nothing.
- votes are secret until the ending date
- (obviously) you can’t vote after the ending date
- Maybe you can change your vote? or just say it “isn’t final”
What prevents the current Discourse polls from being used for that?
- Closing a poll is awkward (changing the title)
- The only way to automatically close a poll also closes the topic.
- Would require either
2^$CANDIDATESoptions (confusing users/“voters”) or$CANDIDATEStopics
It feels like those two use cases need different, but related, solutions.