Do polls work?

[Heraclea]

Wondering about this.  Do they look different to thread creators?

[Oubliette_Red]

As in functionality-wise, they appear to work.

If someone submits a vote, then the poll updates to show.

 

 

Never having created a poll, not sure how they appear to the creator.

[Heraclea]

They appear essentially the same to me.  But I looked at a post with an attached poll that said it had 49 votes, but none registered in the bars above.  This one seems to work for all. 

[Widower]

4 minutes ago, Heraclea said:

They appear essentially the same to me.  But I looked at a post with an attached poll that said it had 49 votes, but none registered in the bars above.  This one seems to work for all. 

When we switched from SMF to IPB, all the votes in preexisting polls got lost. I imagine that's the issue here.

[Williwaw]

Looks like it works, but it also looks like you chose the wrong type of poll for this question, since I could choose all three options instead of just one.

[MetaVileTerror]

I'm still noticing that several Polls have no results for me, despite plenty of votes having been registered.  Is this something that is likely to be repaired?

[Alty]

14 hours ago, MetaVileTerror said:

I'm still noticing that several Polls have no results for me, despite plenty of votes having been registered.  Is this something that is likely to be repaired?

Old polls from before the forum change or new polls post change? 

 

If it's old polls, see GM Widower's post above. 

 

New polls can show the results via the 'Show Results' button. Also the results show automatically when the poll is closed. The OP of the poll has to close it if a close time/date hasn't been set. 

Edited August 27, 2019 by Alty

[Rylas]

So, if the vote ended up being mostly "No", and polls don't work, then we'd have to assume the poll was wrong and therefore conclude that polls do work. Is Heraclea just trolling us with an elaborate "Heads I win, Tails you lose"?