# Moderators cannot remove polls from posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-remove-polls-from-posts/81804
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [February 28, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-remove-polls-from-posts/81804 "2018-02-28T17:41:03Z")
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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-remove-polls-from-posts/81804/11 "2018-03-08T22:29:37Z")

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> [@tgxworld](#):
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> we had specific guards in place to prevent this

Mostly because of the way it was designed in its initial version. More details in

> [@Polls can't be altered (even by Moderators) after 5 minutes?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-cant-be-altered-even-by-moderators-after-5-minutes/13393):
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> Is this a setting somewhere? As I think moderators/staff should be able to alter a poll regardless of the time limit. What if a regular user creates a poll that is “unfitting” or one of the options isn’t permitted by forum rules?

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