# Poll in restricted topic where users can’t reply
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-in-restricted-topic-where-users-can-t-reply/88175
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** polls
**Created:** [May 22, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-in-restricted-topic-where-users-can-t-reply/88175 "2018-05-22T18:53:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-in-restricted-topic-where-users-can-t-reply/88175/1 "2018-05-22T18:53:49Z")
An user of my community sent me a message saying he can’t vote on the category we have for community announcements
We use that category to post updates of our community, and yesterday we made a poll asking users what did they think about a change, and an user sent me this
> Hi Diego,
> I get this error when trying to vote on the poll:
>
> **You can’t vote because you can’t post in this topic.**
Surfing through Discourse code I found that the [message ID](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/plugins/poll/config/locales/server.en.yml#L58) was `user_cant_post_in_topic`, and it’s triggered when an user tries to vote on a poll but he can’t post any reply to it
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So, my question is:
**Is possible to create a setting to enable or disable that check?**
I mean a way to allow users who can’t reply to vote on polls
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### Author:  [@Nichalas\_Petranek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nichalas_Petranek)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-in-restricted-topic-where-users-can-t-reply/88175/2 "2018-05-22T19:59:26Z")
i found a workaround for this until something better can be implemented.
you can go into the category settings and edit the permissions to where everyone (or whicever group you decide) is able to reply/see for the category. then if you dont want people to reply to the topic but you still want them to be able to vote on the poll, just close the topic.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-in-restricted-topic-where-users-can-t-reply/88175/3 "2018-05-22T20:18:16Z")
Just checking, are you referring to polls (like the one I included below) or the [Discourse Topic Voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-voting/40121) plugin?
_Poll ([view on site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-in-restricted-topic-where-users-can-t-reply/88175/3))_
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### Author:  [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-in-restricted-topic-where-users-can-t-reply/88175/4 "2018-05-22T20:22:46Z")
To polls, Discourse Polls that is integrated in Core
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-in-restricted-topic-where-users-can-t-reply/88175/5 "2018-05-22T23:33:35Z")
I take it the category the poll is in is restricted. Users can only read?
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### Author:  [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2018, 6:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-in-restricted-topic-where-users-can-t-reply/88175/6 "2018-05-23T06:53:50Z")
Yep, if users cannot reply then they can’t vote on polls