I just noticed that polls can always be voted on when the topic itself has been published, regardless of its lock status. I understand wanting to keep polls open if a topic has run for a week and mods/admins decide to lock discussion on the topic, but it seems like an oversight to allow votes on a poll that an admin doesn't want to start yet (which is the assumed condition when the "Unlock Time" feature is used in the Topic creation form)?
To elaborate more about my specific use case, I'm setting up a number of poll topics ahead of an event I'm planning to run for my community (a very vote-heavy one, as you might have assumed already). Each poll needs to be run on a specific date/time, and so I thought I'd be efficient and make the topic and use the "unlock date/time" feature to prevent any interaction taking place on those topics before we plan on running the associated poll.
If I create a topic, add a poll and set the Unlock Time to a future date (say, tomorrow morning at 9am), then hit publish/save, the topic is visible (as desired) and no comments/replies can be posted (as desired) until that set time, but the poll alongside it is very much open for votes to be counted.
There are two solutions I can see that could fix this:
Lock Polls in topics that use the "Unlock Time" feature in Moderator Options, to prevent votes from being cast until that time
Add a new option under the "Poll" tab of a Topic creation form next to "Automatically close poll on specific date?", which works in a similar way but for opening the poll ("Automatically open poll on specific date?")
In the meantime, my only option on V4 (I haven't tested this issue in V5 but I assume it's the same) is to create the poll topic and hide it, then remember to manually unhide it when I want to start the polling, which isn't ideal. Any chance this can be looked at, as a QOL update? :)
I just noticed that polls can always be voted on when the topic itself has been published, regardless of its lock status. I understand wanting to keep polls open if a topic has run for a week and mods/admins decide to lock discussion on the topic, but it seems like an oversight to allow votes on a poll that an admin doesn't want to start yet (which is the assumed condition when the "Unlock Time" feature is used in the Topic creation form)?
To elaborate more about my specific use case, I'm setting up a number of poll topics ahead of an event I'm planning to run for my community (a very vote-heavy one, as you might have assumed already). Each poll needs to be run on a specific date/time, and so I thought I'd be efficient and make the topic and use the "unlock date/time" feature to prevent any interaction taking place on those topics before we plan on running the associated poll.
If I create a topic, add a poll and set the Unlock Time to a future date (say, tomorrow morning at 9am), then hit publish/save, the topic is visible (as desired) and no comments/replies can be posted (as desired) until that set time, but the poll alongside it is very much open for votes to be counted.
There are two solutions I can see that could fix this:
Lock Polls in topics that use the "Unlock Time" feature in Moderator Options, to prevent votes from being cast until that time
Add a new option under the "Poll" tab of a Topic creation form next to "Automatically close poll on specific date?", which works in a similar way but for opening the poll ("Automatically open poll on specific date?")
In the meantime, my only option on V4 (I haven't tested this issue in V5 but I assume it's the same) is to create the poll topic and hide it, then remember to manually unhide it when I want to start the polling, which isn't ideal. Any chance this can be looked at, as a QOL update? :)
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