Public Poll Results

A-M at 10h51

Dec

2008

Would it be possible to make the poll results public? so that you can see who voted for what? because as it stands now it's a bit difficult to guess who voted for what, and sometimes you need to know who voted for what.

So would it be possible to have a choice of making poll results public or private when making the poll? (like vbulletin has)

1 Sanket, on 05/12/2008 at 10h59

I think, while getting an opinion you don't need to know who has voted what.
I say No. Users, should get privacy on this.

2 -=BleSsEd_GuY=-, on 05/12/2008 at 14h47

i also voted no....
users must have privacy....
and 4 polls
you have to give ur own opinion....
regards...

3 Demonspike, on 05/12/2008 at 18h46

Sanket wrote:I think, while getting an opinion you don't need to know who has voted what.
I say No. Users, should get privacy on this.

This I back 100% Sanket.. well said.

Big "NO" from me this time.

4 Tarogasini, on 05/12/2008 at 20h32

Sanket wrote:I think, while getting an opinion you don't need to know who has voted what.
I say No. Users, should get privacy on this.

-=BleSsEd_GuY=- wrote:i also voted no....
users must have privacy....

Demonspike wrote:Big "NO" from me this time.

I voted NO. And people above me already said what had to be said here.

5 A-M, on 07/12/2008 at 14h46

That's why i said to have an option of having the results private or public, so if you want it private then you choose that, or if not then you choose public.

6 iathen, on 07/12/2008 at 15h18

If you want to know who vote for what then don't make a poll.
Make a topik and ask to vote by writting the vote.
If the members want to public their vote, they will answer.
Otherwise they won't write anything.
Polls must be private so I vote "no".

7 phpbbuser, on 16/12/2008 at 19h51

But if it's possible to make the votes public you can use the polls in a terrific way as

RSVPD:s

I think it's called in English. To sign up for activities and you can easily get a quick overview of the interest to attend an activity. You could for example have three different alternatives in the poll:

1. I will attend
2. Undecided
3. I cannot attend this time

Wouldn't that be great to have the option to choose whether the poll is public or private (and that is clear when the poll is public in some way - on the other hand you can always cancel the poll).

8 Rammstein, on 16/12/2008 at 22h54

Yes

9 Darren1, on 16/12/2008 at 22h59

Tarogasini wrote:
Sanket wrote:I think, while getting an opinion you don't need to know who has voted what.
I say No. Users, should get privacy on this.

-=BleSsEd_GuY=- wrote:i also voted no....
users must have privacy....

Demonspike wrote:Big "NO" from me this time.

I voted NO. And people above me already said what had to be said here.

And I copy theese guys for the exact same reason...User privacy (its law too)

Voted No.

10 phpbbuser, on 17/12/2008 at 08h54

But the users do have privacy if it is clear when the poll is public or private before they vote. I suppose that clearness can be accomplished in different ways. Perhaps it is possible to reuse the functionality from polls but to call them RSVP when it is a "public poll"?

From the beginning the question here is to have the _option_ to make a poll public and of course that should be clear before people vote. All the arguments from people voting no make me feel that they haven't really read the actual question here? No one wants to prohibit you from having private polls.

No one wants to trick people into believing their voting is private when it's not. There is no law against that!

11 Guest, on 17/12/2008 at 09h24

Hello,

I vote No on this suggested. It will only cause flamewars and provoke attacks on member's who don't agree, by showing who voted for who.

Sorry, it gets a bit confusing.

Daijiro

12 poker123admin, on 18/12/2008 at 02h10

yes from me.

13 babaganoosh, on 18/12/2008 at 08h00

phpbbuser wrote:But the users do have privacy if it is clear when the poll is public or private before they vote.

Well if a user wants to vote no, but they know that their name will come up, they probably won't vote anymore. It just leads to biased voting now.

14 MrMario, on 18/12/2008 at 19h08

Would you like someone to see your vote. I wouldn't But if you vote for a president then they just add the count.

15 Horus91, on 18/12/2008 at 19h30

it's optional what kind of poll it is, you can still add anonymous polls or the one suggested. soyeah, /yes from me since it's optional and ppl can avoid voting for public ones

16 Base, on 18/12/2008 at 19h45

Hello A-M,

I voted no because this is unnecessary. Polls are a way of getting members to make a decision between choices. These should be "private" as stated by many members. If the user who voted wishes to tell the public what they voted for, then they will post a message saying they voted for so and so. For example, this post itself.

Regards,

Base

17 brij, on 18/12/2008 at 19h59

Base wrote:Hello A-M,

I voted no because this is unnecessary. Polls are a way of getting members to make a decision between choices. These should be "private" as stated by many members. If the user who voted wishes to tell the public what they voted for, then they will post a message saying they voted for so and so. For example, this post itself.

Regards,

Base

I to voted no and i totally agree with Base.

18 13gentj, on 19/12/2008 at 03h00

Well maybe the users can check a box if they do not want to see what people voted for.

19 13gentj, on 19/12/2008 at 03h01

Well maybe the users can check a box if they do not want to see what people voted for.