It’s not possible to create polls when the last poll option starts with a #.
@Adrian_D_Atri_Guiran discovered this bug.
This works:
[poll]
- #1
- 2
[/poll]
This doesn’t work:
[poll]
- 1
- #2
[/poll]
Unable to create poll when the last poll option starts with hashtag
gerhard
(Gerhard Schlager)
#1
codinghorror
(Jeff Atwood)
#2
Ok but… why should this matter? I agree it is a bug, but … don’t do that? 
Adrian_D_Atri_Guiran
(Adrian D'atri Guiran)
#3
It came from an import from an old phpbb3 forum. I had no idea what was crashing the importer script until i started editing files and printing stuff all over the place. I’m fine with the importer just skipping the poll, but hard crashing isn’t a super great solution, especially for people who are new to discourse and are migrating from phpbb and have absolutely no clue where to start looking for the problem.
gerhard
(Gerhard Schlager)
#4
I agree, the importer shouldn’t crash and I’ll fix that.
But the real issue is that the poll plugin has problems with certain text that looks like markdown.
This has problems too:
[poll]
- 24. November
- 26. November
[/poll]
There’s no problem when the last option doesn’t look like a numbered list:
[poll]
- 24. November
- 26. November
- some other date
[/poll]
Of course, that’s an option. But I guess documenting the issues is a better solution.
In case someone else stumbles upon the same problems, here’s an easy workaround: Escape the problematic symbols in the poll options by prepending \ to it. The following examples work:
[poll]
- 1
- \#2
[/poll]
[poll]
- 24. November
- 26\. November
[/poll]
sam
(Sam Saffron)
#6
This is triggering a JavaScript error @tgxworld so it is worth fixing, if possible (at least stop console from filling with errors)
If too hard we can defer on #markdown-it-review
tgxworld
(Alan Tan)
#8
Let’s defer it to #markdown-it-review, this is a bug in better-markdown.js where the following is generated incorrectly.
