# Creating and managing polls

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-and-managing-polls/77548>\
**Category:** Using Discourse\
**Tags:** polls, how-to\
**Created:** [January 9, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-and-managing-polls/77548 "2018-01-09T03:49:23Z")\
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> [@Moin](#):
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> Though if I remember correctly, when you edit the poll, all votes are deleted, but at least you don’t have to recreate it.

This is indeed the case.

It would make more sense to me if there was an _option_ to reset the poll, rather than it being ‘forced’ - especially for a minor tweaks like this.

I’ve hacked the database for these type of changes in the past (to avoid an edit triggering a reset), but that is a bit fragile.

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