# Append a standard poll to new topics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/append-a-standard-poll-to-new-topics/255365
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 16, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/append-a-standard-poll-to-new-topics/255365 "2023-02-16T15:55:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Fred\_Koehler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fred_koehler/32/293835_2.png) [@Fred\_Koehler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fred_Koehler)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/append-a-standard-poll-to-new-topics/255365/1 "2023-02-16T15:55:06Z")

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Hello all!

New to Discourse but loving it so far. Great product. Great community.

Use case for this scenario is that we’re doing a community feedback forum for writers. I figured out how to use the poll feature to create a standardized list of questions so that every new ‘topic’ is being reviewed on the same 5-question rubric. I’m concerned, however, that an 80-yr-old retired dentist who wants to post chapter 1 of their life story is going to either get scared by that big chunk of code or accidentally edit / paste over it.

So the question is how we might either automatically append that section of code to every new post or even somehow hide it or lock it in the topic template so that it can’t be edited. Thoughts?

 ![bug-2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/7/e/b7e5d95df2d296fcca44dc27b4d654f537c6f9d7.png)

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### Author: ![renato](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/renato/32/383632_2.png) [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/append-a-standard-poll-to-new-topics/255365/2 "2023-02-16T17:24:16Z")

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If you haven’t seen this plugin before, it might be just what you need:

> [@Topic Ratings Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-ratings-plugin/39578):
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> A Discourse plugin that lets you use topics to rate things! Features Rate topics by a star rating system in the composer. Enable different rating types on a per-category or per-tag basis. Toggle rating count and average rating per rating type. Toggle visibility of ratings, counts and averages based on user roles. Bulk actions including rating type migration [page_facing_up Get the code](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-ratings)[bug Report a bug](https://discourse.pluginmanager.org/w/bug-report)Lost? Not sure how to install a plugin? [Follow the steps here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157). Mak…

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### Author: ![Fred\_Koehler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fred_koehler/32/293835_2.png) [@Fred\_Koehler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fred_Koehler)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/append-a-standard-poll-to-new-topics/255365/3 "2023-02-16T18:29:46Z")

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Whoah! Thank you Renato. That looks like it might accomplish exactly what I would like it to do. Cheers, -fk

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/append-a-standard-poll-to-new-topics/255365/4 "2023-04-29T20:20:43Z")

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