Happy spring and fall forum users (depending on where you are)!
Today, I feel like I really need to stress the importance of polls and they can be extremely helpful to you in your posts. First off though, the basics (then later, we’ll talk about where you can incorporate polls)!
Basics
#1 Build a poll:
#2 Options (a LOT):
TYPE
Single Choice:
Note: Single choice has CIRCLE bubbles.
Multiple Choice:
Note: Multiple choice has SQUARE bubbles.
Number Rating:
RESULTS
Always Visible — even if someone doesn’t vote, they can see the results of the poll
On Vote — only after voting can a person view the results (but they can go back and change it)
When Closed — after the poll closes (no longer accepting new votes), only then can everyone see the results
ALLOWED GROUPS
In the drop-down, choose up to ONE group to have the poll open to (i.e. choose builders and only people who are in the @Builders group can vote).
CHART TYPE
Note: It’s a little better to use a pie chart because it’s all in one place and you can visually see the proportion better than the bar. Plus, if you have a lot of options, the bar chart will go off-screen and you’ll have to scroll to view all the results, whereas the results are all in one place in pie charts.
SHOW WHO VOTED and AUTOMATICALLY CLOSE POLL
Show who voted — it will display the people who voted what choice (how we usually see them elsewhere in the forum); please only set this if absolutely necessary because polls are for honest answers, and you won’t gather them if people afraid of others seeing their choice(s)
Automatically close poll — if you check this, a calendar will appear and you can choose a date at which the poll will automatically close and no one can vote anymore
Alternatives
After you insert your poll, you will see something like this (it will be different and be based on how you configured your poll):
You can edit the words here (i.e. change “regular” to “multiple” to get a multiple-choice poll)
Number of Voters and Votes
“Vote Now!”, “Show Vote”, and “Close” Buttons
Note: the “Vote now!” button will be blue when on the choices screen, it’s gray right now because I was on the results screen
Application
Great, we know what polls are, but where and when do we use them?
Categories
You can use polls in almost any category. What I like to do with any tutorials I create is put a rating poll and a did-you-learn-anything-new poll to gather data and evaluate my topics (trust me, just scroll down, you’ll see one 
). I also like to have polls in discussion threads to see what others’ viewpoints are on a particular topic. If you love statistics (like I do), you will love polls!
The only place where it’s best not to add them are feature requests and bug report threads. Basically, if your post is in any sub-category of #platform-feedback, do not add a poll. The sub-categories include (click to expand):
Hashtag Galore!
#platform-feedback:engine-features
#platform-feedback:engine-bugs
#platform-feedback:studio-features
#platform-feedback:studio-bugs
#platform-feedback:website-features
#platform-feedback:website-bugs
#platform-feedback:mobile-features
#platform-feedback:mobile-bugs
#platform-feedback:xbox-features
#platform-feedback:xbox-bugs
#platform-feedback:developer-hub
The reason being that this category is viewed by Roblox engineers, and polls are quite distracting when time is of utter essence to them (currently, about 80 topics are created in this category in a week and there only so many Roblox staff members). So, it’s best to keep your posts as terse as possible and one way to do that is NOT adding polls.
If you have anything to add, please feel free to reply!
I told you above, I love polls, so of course, here is one:
Rate this tutorial.
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Did you learn anything new?
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Thank you very much for your time and feedback,
Have a great spring / autumn!