Voting in polls directly by email

[tobiaseigen]

Wow, this is an old topic!

I don’t create polls much anymore in my new role here at Discourse.org, so am not even sure how the feature has evolved. But I am fairly certain the ability to answer polls by email was never added. We lean toward giving people who log in the best experience.

At the Legal Empowerment Network where we were looking into doing polls we rely more on email to reach our members so we moved to a mailchimp/wordpress gravity forms solution to ask them to come to the website to fill out a longish survey. We also set up a gravity forms to do a net promoter score survey periodically when people log in, both in discourse and wordpress. That worked fairly well.

@gassim

I also tried to edit the text of staff post such as the ‘pinned topic’ or ‘closed topic’ and add the poll there but unfortunately there too it appears as ‘text’

I’m not sure what you mean here - can you share a screenshot? I think pinned topics should still show correctly. But you can’t edit the post containing the poll once you’ve saved it, as explained in Create a poll that others can vote on.

Bannerizing a poll doesn’t work. It displays the questions and number of answers, but doesn’t let you actually answer the poll. This is a known issue.

Polls in banner topics not functional & no linking?

This may be ‘working as intended’ but I thought I would raise it. Just noted that a topic with a poll in it shows up but without the ability to vote or showing the number of voting responses. I see this was raised in 2017 with the response by Jeff as ‘not supported’ so that is likely why, however, there is no default link to navigate to the topic unless you manually insert a link in the text. For topics that are relying on feedback or discussion this seems a bit odd. Perhaps making the banner f…