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Create new threads and post polls at the same time

  • 12-06-2012 1:44am
    #1
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭


    Why is it that when you're starting a new thread and adding a poll that you have to wait until the OP is posted before adding the poll?

    Why can't you just create an OP, add a poll and then post the two together?

    It can be particularly frustrating as readers can access the thread before the poll has been posted and it can create some amount of confusion.

    I realise that this wouldn't particular matter if you intended the poll to only have one or two option or if you were posting in a low traffic forum.

    However, if you were posting in a high traffic forum (like AH) and had a lot of options to type in, it could take a few minutes before the poll appears and a few people would have already read the OP by then.

    An example is a thread I created here (it was locked before I had time to finish the poll). You see that one or two users complained that they couldn't view the poll yet, this was because I was in the middle of writing it and there were a lot of options.

    (Apologies if this is in the wrong forum)


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  • #2
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Yep this has bugged me on those occasions when I post a poll, by the time you've done the work half a dozen people have posted.


  • #3
    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    Pedant wrote: »
    Why is it that when you're starting a new thread and adding a poll that you have to wait until the OP is posted before adding the poll?

    Because that's how vBulletin (the forum software we use) does it.

    I'm going to move this thread into Site Development as a Feature Suggestion


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