# Test poll thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll-thread/939167>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 1, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll-thread/939167 "2021-04-01T16:09:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll-thread/939167/1 "2021-04-01T16:09:42Z")

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Trying to test the new poll feature.[poll type=regular results=always chartType=bar]

# What’s the best test?

- Oral
- Essay
- Multiple choice  
[/poll]

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll-thread/939167/2 "2021-04-01T16:10:14Z")

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Ugh! I still can’t figure out how to do a poll.

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll-thread/939167/3 "2021-04-01T16:13:26Z")

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_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll-thread/939167/3))_

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll-thread/939167/4 "2021-04-01T16:14:28Z")

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So, it looks like spacing each choice with a full line works to create a poll

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**Author:** ![blabbermeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9a140/32.png) [@blabbermeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blabbermeister)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll-thread/939167/5 "2021-04-01T16:19:16Z")

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I think there just has to be a space after the last option.

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll-thread/939167/6 "2021-04-01T20:18:30Z")

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This seems to be true of a lot of Discourse’s markup: anything multiline like quotes or polls need to have their opening and closing tags on their own lines or the parser misses them.

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll-thread/939167/7 "2021-04-04T15:28:08Z")

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> [@gnoitall](#):
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> quotes or polls need to have their opening and closing tags on their own lines

This.