# How should we implement polls?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-we-implement-polls/11911>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 13, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-we-implement-polls/11911 "2014-01-13T02:48:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-we-implement-polls/11911/40 "2014-02-24T01:50:10Z")

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Make your topic **title** start with "Poll: " and include **a list** in your post. The first list will be used. If you don’t want it to be the first list, do this:

```
Intro Text

 - Some list
 - Some list con't

Here are your choices:

[poll]
 - Option 1
 - Option 2
[/poll]

```

Currently, the options bug out if you do any markdown other than a list, escaping the `<b>` and `<a>` tags and such, so try to avoid formatting in the choices for now until that’s fixed.

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