# Poll creator should be able to see poll results, even when shown "on vote"
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-creator-should-be-able-to-see-poll-results-even-when-shown-on-vote/138108
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** polls, completed
**Created:** [January 8, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-creator-should-be-able-to-see-poll-results-even-when-shown-on-vote/138108 "2020-01-08T23:50:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-creator-should-be-able-to-see-poll-results-even-when-shown-on-vote/138108/1 "2020-01-08T23:50:20Z")
When a poll is set to only show results “on vote”, no one is allowed to see the results before voting, including the poll creator. (I’m ignoring staff because I have no insight into that.) I rarely use this option, but when I do it’s usually to minimize the chance of bias in a poll (though people can always change their vote after seeing the results anyway). In those cases though, I generally don’t want to vote myself as I’m polling others. For that reason, wouldn’t it make sense for me to still be able to see the results without voting since I created the poll?
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### Author:  [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-creator-should-be-able-to-see-poll-results-even-when-shown-on-vote/138108/3 "2020-01-09T02:28:19Z")
I agree. It is frustrating not being able to see the poll results because you don’t want to bias the results e.g. if the poll were about how good my site is.
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### Author:  [@Anton\_Akhmerov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anton_Akhmerov)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-creator-should-be-able-to-see-poll-results-even-when-shown-on-vote/138108/4 "2020-02-11T21:10:44Z")
1. I totally agree!
2. On v2.3.9 I’m able to view the results anyway by selecting something, but not submitting and then clicking on the “view results” button 😃
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-creator-should-be-able-to-see-poll-results-even-when-shown-on-vote/138108/5 "2020-03-07T20:32:43Z")
Just wanted to check in on this one since another user on [https://community.wanikani.com/](https://community.wanikani.com/) just got caught by this.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-creator-should-be-able-to-see-poll-results-even-when-shown-on-vote/138108/6 "2020-03-08T02:19:14Z")
I do think the poll creator should always be able to view results @eviltrout, perhaps we can schedule this for work on Monday?
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-creator-should-be-able-to-see-poll-results-even-when-shown-on-vote/138108/9 "2020-03-24T23:40:47Z")
Done:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/9248](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/9248)
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-creator-should-be-able-to-see-poll-results-even-when-shown-on-vote/138108/10 "2020-03-24T23:40:54Z")