# Add "how to create a poll"
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-how-to-create-a-poll/32014
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 12, 2015, 5:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-how-to-create-a-poll/32014 "2015-08-12T05:46:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2015, 5:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-how-to-create-a-poll/32014/1 "2015-08-12T05:46:21Z")
We have about 2600 regular users on our forums and polls are popular - but lots of our non-technical users have problems with creating polls.
It would be really great if everytime someone created a poll, that Discourse recognized that it was a Poll - and appended a small link at the bottom of the poll that said something like “How to create a poll” - with a link to some simple instructions and code to copy and paste.
This would help educate people on how to create a poll (the interest on creating polls is most likely to be triggered when someone is looking at a poll).
This would greatly increase the use of, and reduce the problem our users have with, polls.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2015, 9:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-how-to-create-a-poll/32014/2 "2015-08-12T09:55:23Z")
When dealing with non-technical users, I think it’s much better to go the pure UX route. Maybe you could entice someone to make a simple graphical wizard for polls, which would open on the click of a Poll-button added to the editor. After creating your poll in a graphical interface, you hit Done and it inserts the whole thing into your post.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2015, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-how-to-create-a-poll/32014/3 "2015-08-12T10:21:38Z")
Yeah the longer term plan is to have a “gear” icon in the toolbar which lets you do obscure editor stuff like add polls, etc.
I think we might suppress more of the toolbar by default though, as @jesselperry has suggested, so this kind of thing would be rolled up into that change.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-how-to-create-a-poll/32014/4 "2015-08-12T12:28:17Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Yeah the longer term plan is to have a “gear” icon in the toolbar which lets you do obscure editor stuff like add polls, etc.
Maybe just use the hamburger icon?
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### Author:  [@jesselperry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jesselperry)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2015, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-how-to-create-a-poll/32014/5 "2015-08-12T12:41:25Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-how-to-create-a-poll/32014/6 "2016-07-16T00:25:45Z")
The gear icon to build polls is in 1.6.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-how-to-create-a-poll/32014/7 "2016-07-16T00:25:58Z")