# Making polls ‘Show who voted’ by default

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-polls-show-who-voted-by-default/220022>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** polls, completed\
**Created:** [March 4, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-polls-show-who-voted-by-default/220022 "2022-03-04T02:48:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tris20](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tris20/32/264639_2.png) [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-polls-show-who-voted-by-default/220022/6 "2022-03-04T18:17:33Z")

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> [@JammyDodger](#):
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> I do like to have the guides though, so I can link to them when it crops up rather than re-type the instructions.

From a similar experience, any time I need to give instructions in Discourse I either request they ask in the Discourse Category we have, or I immediately write a guide. Linking the guide is faaaar better – not just on the effort front. It encourages your users to be a bit more self resourceful, shows them a refined version of the information they need, and the best part? Yeah, it gets them back on your Discourse site 🥳 Likewise it provides them with a link they can share with other people, consequently achieving these goals on your behalf 🙂

> [@JammyDodger](#):
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> I think the change in poll UI a while back made them a little less intuitive when it comes to the ‘single choice’ versus ‘multiple choice’, as people seem to think that ‘single choice’ means single option. So they pick ‘multiple’, and adjust the min/max to make it a single choice poll. 🙂
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> The ‘show who voted’ button is also a little tucked away at the bottom of the advanced options, when almost all of our polls would normally use it (apart from an occasional few admin ones).

I’ve also experienced this. Similarly, it wasn’t 100% clear to me or the participants if polls were anonymous or not.

For the naming of Single versus Multiple you can modify this manually. I think this is the text:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/b/2b3c0c881ed6733947e0f589ff1b68ad3c82637c.png)

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