Can a poll be pinned as a banner?

[communitygal (Emma Furtado)]

I added this poll to my instance, but the question doesn’t appear. How can I create a poll that looks more intuitive to users?
People had voted but it displayed zero voters.

[dax (Daniela)]

You must write the question outside the poll:

What is your favorite animal?

• cat
• dog
• capybara

@communitygal

People had voted but it displayed zero voters.

Are you on the very latest version of Discourse?
There were bugs on polls that have already been fixed some time ago.

[communitygal (Emma Furtado)]

oh ok maybe the issue was just when it was pinned the banner

[dax (Daniela)]

@communitygal

oh ok maybe the issue was just when it was pinned the banner

Yep, for reference:

Poll not working on a banner topic

Hi Team Discourse ! I’m here to report on a little bug, when I create a topic with a poll and pin it to banner topic two things are broken : it is impossible to vote If we go inside the topic and vote, the result is not visible on the banner. I run in a fairly recent version (updated 2 or 3 days ago), but it doesn’t seem that it was fixed since then. There is nothing urgent, I noticed it on a little forum under construction, and I doubt these kinds of ideas are often used.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Polls don’t support being pinned in a banner at the moment.

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

It would be very handy if they did!

[JammyDodger]

There’s the GitHub - discourse/discourse-poll-banner: Display a poll from a topic as a banner for all logged-in users. theme component that works off a numerical poll. I don’t know if someone could adapt it to handle ‘word-based’ ones in some way?

There does seem to be a scattering of topics about having polls in banners, but I think a lot of them were initially bug reports that have been reclassified rather than a proper feature request. It may be good to try and collate something to give it a better hearing and allow people to add their voice to the conversation.