# You may ignore this Test Thread - adding polls after the fact...

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**Created:** [October 29, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ignore-this-test-thread-adding-polls-after-the-fact/515662 "2009-10-29T21:39:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ignore-this-test-thread-adding-polls-after-the-fact/515662/1 "2009-10-29T21:39:20Z")

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Please feel free to ignore this thread; I’m satisfying my curiosity.

Thread Tools offers me the option of “Add a Poll to this Thread” where I am the original poster and the forum allows polling. I didn’t think you could do that, so what I’m trying is - I’m starting this thread, I will return in about an hour (long past the edit window) and I will see if I can establish a poll that long after a thread is started.

For the record, I didn’t think you were supposed to be able to do that. I wanted to do this here rather than zombify an old thread of mine, because there is no point to this other than finding out if I can or cannot add polls to an existing thread.

Here we go…

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**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ignore-this-test-thread-adding-polls-after-the-fact/515662/2 "2009-10-29T22:39:21Z")

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Well, sonuvagun, I think that worked!!

A side point - the polling feature doesn’t seem to accept 1.5 as number of days before a poll closes. It took the first whole number it saw; it didn’t even round off.