# Why do my polls disappear?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769
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**Created:** [February 2, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769 "2022-02-02T02:52:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769/1 "2022-02-02T02:52:46Z")
I’ll be building a poll and all of a sudden, my work disappears. I’m building one and I’ve added 15 choices and…it goes. It seems random and it doesn’t get saved to my drafts or anything.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769/2 "2022-02-02T04:38:54Z")
They’ve been stored in the poll vault.
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### Author:  [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769/3 "2022-02-02T05:38:58Z")
Are you using the advanced options? (Gear wheel at the lower right.)
That may be better if you’re adding many options, because you can add them all at once in one box.
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### Author:  [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769/4 "2022-02-02T09:27:54Z")
Fortunately the death penalty for this sort of thing has been abolished recently. Though you make an excellent argument for bringing it back.
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769/5 "2022-02-02T11:27:42Z")
I assume that you are using Discourse’s poll builder and aren’t just typing in your poll manually. Is this correct?
What browser / device / operating system are you using?
What exactly does “it goes” mean? Does the poll disappear when you try to post it or does it disappear while you are creating it, or something else?
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### Author:  [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769/6 "2022-02-02T11:44:20Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#):
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> Are you using the advanced options? (Gear wheel at the lower right.)
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> That may be better if you’re adding many options, because you can add them all at once in one box.
In the reply box of the reply window, the gear at right shows a dropdown with Hide Details, Blur Spoiler, and Build Poll. That’s what I used. It requires adding options one at a time.
@engineer_comp_geek does that answer your question about manual input?
I’m on a laptop with Chrome browser. I think it updated to Windows 11.
It goes=it disappears, as though I’ve submitted it. There’s no draft left. Am I accidentally doing Ctrl-something, Windows-Something? It seems like when I try a poll with several options, that’s when it happens.
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### Author:  [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769/7 "2022-02-02T11:58:29Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#):
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> In the reply box of the reply window, the gear at right shows a dropdown with Hide Details, Blur Spoiler, and Build Poll. That’s what I used. It requires adding options one at a time.
Did you miss ‘Gear wheel at the lower right’?
[ ](https://imgur.com/PjxKHEP)
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### Author:  [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769/8 "2022-02-02T12:14:12Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#):
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> Did you miss ‘Gear wheel at the lower right’?
Ah ok, never noticed that one.
ETA: Looks easier to do that way, thanks.
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769/9 "2022-02-02T12:17:51Z")
Don’t we still put people in the stocks for public humiliation?
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-my-polls-disappear/958769/10 "2022-02-02T13:36:54Z")
[there’s a thread about stocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-talk-chicken-stock/958694)