rbiss Posted October 25, 2012 Posted October 25, 2012 I lost a corporate client in part to our inadequate polling feature. I could see it coming, having asked for this off and on for 7 years. Please please improve it. 1) Allow guest polling - please provide the option of allowing guests to vote. No reputable website expects people to register just to vote in a poll. When you limit to members-only you get the same members voting, in limited fashion. 2) Ability to hide results - allowing people to see the results skews the polling. There should be an option available to hide the results until a specific date( and/or other parameters). It's crazy that we have to use "survey monkey" to do something that should be slam dunk easy to do right on this board.
Cyrem Posted October 25, 2012 Posted October 25, 2012 No reputable website expects people to register just to vote in a poll. I can list many. But I agree, it is annoying.
Alfa1 Posted October 25, 2012 Posted October 25, 2012 Polls were nice ten years ago. But now we have google charts, fusioncharts, surveymonkey, etc. I would like to suggest: multiple questions in a poll. different question types.See: http://www.surveymonkey.com/QuestionBuilder_Examples.aspx There are various pretty ways to show poll results and make them look more exiting and interesting. Add some Google charts, or tabbed results, a Pie Chart with hovering descriptions. There are various better html5 / jquery examples out there. An overview of all polls could be added, so that users can go from poll to poll.
rbiss Posted October 26, 2012 Author Posted October 26, 2012 Yes, there is a lot of untapped expansion. The ability to correlate answers would be a huge improvement. Most importantly for me though is guest polling. Polls are more accurate with #s. And when used for research the results shouldn't be viewable to those who haven't taken the poll. Both of those poll options would mean a lot. When setting up a poll, 1) Allow Guest Polling yes/no. 2) Hide results until answered yes/no (or by date, or when admin/poll creator allows display). If guest polling allowed, the IP address with a flood control should (and no option to view by member) should be the working code.
RObiN-HoOD Posted October 26, 2012 Posted October 26, 2012 I believe that the next big mod should be an Advanced Poll System. That would make some serious money around here!
Lase Posted November 2, 2012 Posted November 2, 2012 ... and it needs more likes this. How come only 2 or 3 people are on for this?
Andy Badwool Posted December 31, 2012 Posted December 31, 2012 I'm in! I would really like the option to allow the creator of the poll to be the only one to see results.
erosion Posted February 3, 2013 Posted February 3, 2013 This has been requested for so long, it's getting hard to understand why nothing is done. Honestly, the option to hide poll results (until a given date or admin action) and guest voting cannot be that hard to implement. Polling improvements, please!
RObiN-HoOD Posted February 3, 2013 Posted February 3, 2013 It seems that, we, the ones who are interested in that, are few. What a pity. What is weird is that no modder has done anything too, like most people don't vote or something.
TJP7291 Posted March 11, 2013 Posted March 11, 2013 Yeah, the hide poll results after voting is really important. I'm shocked it hasn't been done either. Make it so only the admin can see them.
# AleX Posted March 26, 2013 Posted March 26, 2013 Well I'm shocked that SMF 1.1.18 as a better poll system that IPB. I'm building a new home for my SMF forum and I when I got to the polls my jaw dropped! Its so basic. Until now everything else in IPS was way better than SMF but not this. I need at least these options in every poll. - Maximum votes per user - Run the poll for X days - Only show the results after the poll has expired - Reset Vote Count It's all improvement and if SMF can do it since +10y ago, so can IPS.. please? Tx
Soniceffect Posted March 27, 2013 Posted March 27, 2013 I agree the polling could be better and something I would like to see in the next major version. Multiple polls in a topic would be a very nice addition
Samourai Posted March 27, 2013 Posted March 27, 2013 I didn't see if it has already been suggested, but please, add the ability to close a poll without closing a topic... (Unless you already did it on 3.4)
RObiN-HoOD Posted March 27, 2013 Posted March 27, 2013 Let's all hope that our prayers will be heard for a better and improved polling system! :)
media Posted May 30, 2013 Posted May 30, 2013 1) Allow guest polling - please provide the option of allowing guests to vote. No reputable website expects people to register just to vote in a poll. When you limit to members-only you get the same members voting, in limited fashion. This is so important ... I hope IPB add this feature to the IP Board.... Thanks http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/386962-polling-question-help/
Adriano Faria Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 I didn't see if it has already been suggested, but please, add the ability to close a poll without closing a topic... (Unless you already did it on 3.4) Hook: '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>
Telemacus2 Posted February 7, 2014 Posted February 7, 2014 I know this is a little old, but guest votes are still not possible in ipb, are they? I'd be interested in a mod that allowed this (and recorded the guest's ip so that he couldn' vote again) on the same poll.
Ticaga Posted November 1, 2015 Posted November 1, 2015 Any updates on this thread, a cool way to give a 1 - 10 rating per poll row would be nice e.g: What do you think about the features in IPB? Forum 1[] 2[] 3[] 4[] 5[] 6[] 7[] 8[] 9[] 10[x] Pages 1[] 2[] 3[] 4[] 5[] 6[] 7[x] 8[] 9[] 10[] Store 1[] 2[] 3[] 4[] 5[] 6[] 7[] 8[x] 9[] 10[]
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