# Something falsely triggering poll creation error following Discobot tutorial

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-falsely-triggering-poll-creation-error-following-discobot-tutorial/75638>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 7, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-falsely-triggering-poll-creation-error-following-discobot-tutorial/75638 "2017-12-07T19:08:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-falsely-triggering-poll-creation-error-following-discobot-tutorial/75638/1 "2017-12-07T19:08:47Z")

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I have a client who has several users who are being told that they cannot create polls when following the Discobot tutorial, even though they are not creating a poll. ~~I can’t replicate it, but it sounds like they are getting to some point in the tutorial as level 0 and their response is triggering the “you can’t create a poll” message.~~ Replying to Discobot with a URL in the first line gives the error “You are not allowed to create polls.”  
It sounds like if the user is TL1 then the problem goes away. I tried to replicate on try and failed. They’re running Discourse 1.9.0.beta15 - [GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse) version 995bf3c84eecc89919cc2efc95537259a3a75b7b.

The Trust Level settings are all at default values.

Here’s what the user said:

> [@](#):
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> When replying to reply to Discobot a message always appears “You are not allowed to create polls”, even though the user is not actually posting a poll.
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> I tried disabling polls at instance level, which didn’t work. Upping the trust level to 1 did work but it’s something we manually need to do.

EDIT: I really should have upgraded before trying to replicate this. . .

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