remove poll from a thread

[sigmfsk]

I wanted to remove my "vote on the type of Fury shelf" poll I put in my Marin County thread. I suppose what I really want is for it to stop showing up with a rainbow icon by my thread and sticking itself at the top of each page, and I'm fine with deleting it if that's the only way to achieve my goals. But it turns out that:

> ...at this time, the only way to remove a poll is to remove the whole
> thread.
support.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=support&thread=284460&post=3092934

Well that doesn't sound good.

> [the ability to delete polls from a thread] will be added in our next
> version
support.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=support&thread=265999&post=2862249

I guess I'll wait until the next version, when this should be fixed, and searches will work better.

[tk826]

From the Proboards Help forums:

Q: How do I edit or delete a poll?

A:
As with posts, polls can only be edited by the original poster, a moderator, or board administrator. To edit a poll, click the first post in the topic, which always has the poll associated with it. If no one has cast a vote then users can delete the poll or edit any poll option. However, if people have already placed votes only moderators or administrators can edit or delete it; this is to prevent people rigging polls by changing options mid-way through a poll.


I'll let you give it a try sig.
I was thinking about doing it for you, but quickly thought better of that idea.
I want no chance of clicking the wrong button and erasing the thread... then being forced to go into the witness protection program.

Oh.. and I vote 1/8 plexi.

[sigmfsk]

May 13, 2012 14:41:03 GMT -5 tk826 said:

I'll let you give it a try sig.
I was thinking about doing it for you, but quickly thought better of that idea.
I want no chance of clicking the wrong button and erasing the thread... then being forced to go into the witness protection program.

Oh.. and I vote 1/8 plexi.

Thanks for the idea. And thanks for letting me try it out; I would be sad if the whole thread got deleted; and I expect the response from proboards would be "we can't get it back - that's a feature for next release".

But I don't see any option to delete the poll:


I see the text you reference here:
blackdranzerkai.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=faq&action=display&thread=44
and that's from 2004. I'm thinking that was an older version of proboards, and the latest news is that there's not a way to delete.

But if you think of something to try, let me know. You could try it out on the old karma poll:
bluesmobiles.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=board&thread=223&page=1
or create a new thread test poll.

I'm thinking we're just in a poll-removal holding pattern.


And thanks for the shelving thought - I've ordered (6) 1" x 1" x 72" angle aluminum for supports, and plan on using (3) 24" x 72" x 1/4" clear acrylic for shelves. So the winner was something not even on the poll! But I think it will be a good glass substitute, and look better than the originally planned aluminum.

thanks,
arthur

[sigmfsk]

I changed the title of this thread from
- can't remove a poll from a thread
to
- remove a poll from a thread

I finally got tired of that MMoA shelf poll in my Marin County thread.  So I was going to lockdown my old thread, and create a new Marin County thread. I went to edit the first post in the thread (to change the title to say locked down), and saw that there was a button to "delete poll". So I deleted the poll, and now all is good. I guess they added that feature in proboards V5.

I thought this was a new V5 feature, but it's exactly as TK described 18 months ago:

As with posts, polls can only be edited by the original poster, a moderator, or board administrator. To edit a poll, click the first post in the topic, which always has the poll associated with it. If no one has cast a vote then users can delete the poll or edit any poll option. However, if people have already placed votes only moderators or administrators can edit or delete it; this is to prevent people rigging polls by changing options mid-way through a poll.

Read more: bluesmobiles.proboards.com/thread/721/remove-poll-thread?page=1&scrollTo=11742#ixzz2kj0v5aGU


But there are many posts saying that the delete poll feature doesn't work:
ntwriters.proboards.com/thread/46376


I guess the feature is not a V5 unique feature, and that I could have done this 18 months ago when TK suggested it. I guess I was scared off by all the posts saying it couldn't be done.

The good news is, that it works! And Marin County thread is now poll-less.