# Poll with staff only results creatable by non-staff members

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-with-staff-only-results-creatable-by-non-staff-members/136046
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [15 december 2019 om 23:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-with-staff-only-results-creatable-by-non-staff-members/136046 "2019-12-15T23:43:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![seanblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [15 december 2019 om 23:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-with-staff-only-results-creatable-by-non-staff-members/136046/1 "2019-12-15T23:43:30Z")

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Right now, as a non-staff member, I can create a poll where the results are only visible to staff members. What is the use case for that? As it is, I’m concerned someone will click that and lock themselves and everyone out of seeing results by mistake.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [16 december 2019 om 00:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-with-staff-only-results-creatable-by-non-staff-members/136046/2 "2019-12-16T00:48:48Z")

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That does seem like an odd option to offer regular users @eviltrout.

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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [16 december 2019 om 07:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-with-staff-only-results-creatable-by-non-staff-members/136046/3 "2019-12-16T07:44:34Z")

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Not happened to anyone I know. This is odd. Couldn’t you ask a staff to share results with screenshot? That would be my first action.

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### Author: ![markvanlan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/markvanlan/32/160087_2.png) [@markvanlan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markvanlan)
#### Post date: [17 december 2019 om 21:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-with-staff-only-results-creatable-by-non-staff-members/136046/6 "2019-12-17T21:44:51Z")

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I just merged a [PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8565) that removes the `staff only` option for non-staff members.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [18 december 2019 om 01:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-with-staff-only-results-creatable-by-non-staff-members/136046/7 "2019-12-18T01:33:27Z")

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