# What is the gear button under the poll for?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-gear-button-under-the-poll-for/315477
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** polls, fixed
**Created:** [July 8, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-gear-button-under-the-poll-for/315477 "2024-07-08T21:00:29Z")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-gear-button-under-the-poll-for/315477/2 "2024-07-08T21:37:52Z")

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The gear button should appear for those with sufficient privilege and is intended to show a poll admin a list of possible actions, e.g. to close the Poll.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/9/7/d9793860509e7175b29994ec624f1d8a24a0da15.png)

It should not show for those who have no possible actions.

Virtually the entire poll plugin was migrated to Glimmer last week.

This looks like a minor regression.

I’ve raised a PR and will look to complete it tomorrow. (it works but missing unit tests)

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/27775](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/27775)

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