Is there any way to fix the problems with polling?

**Deschain** · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 2137 Location: Austin, TX

But you can try.

**bmintern** · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 47

I vote to either keep things the way they are or just go completely random, I wouldn't care which. I frankly don't think it's worth the time to implement a complicated system in order to fix something that is not a huge problem.

**TheBrain** · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 305

I vote we go for random. I thought the point of having the polls was so that in a week we would get a song that most people wanted to play. If that isn't happening then there doesn't seem to be much point in carrying on with the poll.
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**Javman158** · Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 640 Location: Fairfax, VA

**Morgan** · Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Essex, UK

Here's a suggestion if one of the admins can do a little coding ..

Modify the bit of code that is called when the results of a poll are displayed. If the title of the thread contains a certain keyword eg SecretPoll (choose something you would never normally use) then instead of the results, just show "Results not yet available" (or you could show all the vote counts as zero .. apart from the total votes cast so far). When the poll is finished, the original poster can change the name of the thread to omit the keyword and everyone will be able to see the results.

**bmintern** · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 47

That is a good idea, but anyone could look at the source or disable Javascript to be able to see it, anyways. Still, it's a clever solution.

**Morgan** · Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Essex, UK

Er no, the site is in PHP that is run on the server, so there would be no way round it.

**GridironGrace** · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 163 Location: Monticello, KY

Not a locked poll option?

Where you cant see results until a certain date when the poll closes lol

I know you can do that on VBulliten forums that i mod on, and when I used to run a PHPBB forum back in my KOC days theres a mod you can add to allow that as well

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**Roflworthy** · Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 32

Well I'm not sure if anyone has suggested this because I'm too lazy to check. But what I was thinking was you could make actual groups for each league, and the league commissioners could put up a poll which can only collect votes from people in the corresponding league.