# Restricting poll creation to Trust Levels

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/restricting-poll-creation-to-trust-levels/46379>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [June 24, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restricting-poll-creation-to-trust-levels/46379 "2016-06-24T01:51:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restricting-poll-creation-to-trust-levels/46379/16 "2016-07-01T05:38:14Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Possibly, how hard would this be @tgxworld? Only poll creation could be enforced, participation must be available to all users.

Opps not sure how I missed this. Server side it should be pretty easy but we’ll have to disable the dialect somehow for normal users.

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Can we confirm that the setting works this way @tgxworld? If staff manually enter a poll in a post, even with polls “disabled”, I think it should work. Sort of the same way that PMs being “disabled” works.

Disabling polls disables it for everyone right now. Will have to add the feature in.

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