# Where is the "polling" feature?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-polling-feature/239112>\
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**Created:** [April 9, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-polling-feature/239112 "2004-04-09T03:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@Bret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bret)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-polling-feature/239112/1 "2004-04-09T03:25:56Z")

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I would like to run a poll, but I can’t find the “polling” feature. Under the “FAQ” button at the top of the page, it states there should be an option at the bottom of the posting page. Has this function been disabled?

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-polling-feature/239112/2 "2004-04-09T03:33:42Z")

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The polling feature has never been enabled for members. Admins can use it, I don’t know if mods can make run a poll or not.

This question should have been asked in ATMB, by the way, so I’m going to move it there.

Lynn  
For the Straight Dope.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-polling-feature/239112/3 "2004-04-09T07:21:03Z")

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Most of the bells and whistles available in vB have been turned off to conserve the server, as most all of them are quite server intensive and we need every bit of stuff we can pull just to run pages.

We’re also still fooling with this software. It’s a new release and that means there’s lots of, um, “undocumented features.” We need to chase all of them down before we even contemplate moving beyond where we are now.

In future, if the situation improves, we’ll see what we can do.

In the meantime, our forum for polling is . . . IMHO.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator