There is a great opportunity to improve the Poll oneboxing. It would be ideal if it oneboxed the entire poll so people could easily vote and see results.
My users really like the poll feature and use it often - and it has some really good information in it sometimes that we’d like to share with many other users via linking/referrals - but the current oneboxing really doesn’t do it justice, or make it easy.
Please add the entire poll format to the onebox so it has the voting options. (I’m assumign this is possible without too much trouble).
But there is some really good information in some our polls that I can anticipate using for a long time - i.e. years (e.g. how effective a given medication is for people) - and it helps a lot to be able to direct people to these polls in a way that is visually appealing. Right now we can’t do that - and it really limits the value of the polls.
The current Poll oneboxing is not very visually appealing - so we can’t use it as much as we would like.
The thing I want is just to be able to link or quote polls in a visually appealing way. I don’t think users necessarily should be able to vote in oneboxed polls, unlike the OP.
We are currently running weekly polls with discussions, and have a topic where users can find links to past and present polls. If the oneboxes were better we could use the links to give people a glance at the results before they enter the topic.
It would also be useful when we get around to designing our next big thing, and we could keep a topic where we could have all the relevant polls linked so that we don’t have to open multiple topics to get the results.
The current onebox shows there being 0 voters and shows no results, regardless of what the results were when the quote was created or what it is at the time of viewing.
This is currently my main issue. I would like it to show the latest results. Considering that an expanded quote will show any updates to the quoted post I would assume this to be possible.
With my first post, the thing I wanted was that the “I am a poll 0 voters Show results” that the quote shows when not expanded be replaced with something “more visually appealing”, be it the oneboxed poll or something else entirely. I now see that I phrased this really poorly.
I kinda agree with @sam here. Polls might contain lots of items and that will be really hard to display correctly in a onebox. I think the easiest way would be to replace the poll with a link.
