# 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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**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-and-managing-polls/77548/115 "2024-09-18T13:17:06Z")

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That helps a lot.

What do both of you would infer if I tell you that when the admin who created the poll, edited the topic, that is used for the poll, the topic edits go down, instead of going up?

My inference is this, that the poll was deleted and then a fresh poll was started. That will explain the topic edits going down, to a user who his casting their vote.

Example :  
The user first came to the poll, which had the votes setting set to, always visible. The topic edits to that poll were 4.

On being pointed out to the admin that the votes setting were set to always visible, the user then sees the poll with the votes setting set to, visible after voting. However, the topic edits went to 3. So, the topic edits, instead of going up, go down.

My thinking is this, that the admin deleted the previous poll and then started a new one.

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