Polls

What you get

Ask your community a question with a button for each answer. Members press one to vote, and a live bar chart shows the results as they come in. When the time's up, Guard closes the poll and posts the results.

• One choice or several, 2 to 10 answers.
• Anonymous (nobody sees who voted for what, not even staff) or named (names shown in the results).
• Only one role can vote if you like, for example Whitelisted or LSPD.
• Ping a role when it starts. Run it for an hour, a month, or until you close it.

You'll need

• Glitchworks Guard in your Discord. Staff can make polls straight away.

Step 1 (optional): Choose who can make polls

Your staff can always make polls. To let others too (for example an Events Team):

1. Type /poll setup.
2. Pick the roles in the menu.

Step 2: Make a poll

Type /poll create and fill in:

Press Enter. Guard posts the poll and tells you (only you) where it is.

How people vote

• Press an answer. Only they see the "Vote saved" reply.
• Changed their mind? Press another answer. Press the same one again to take the vote back.
• Multiple choice: each press ticks or unticks that answer.
• If the poll has a voter role, anyone without it is told so, and their press doesn't count.

The chart updates within a few seconds. Percentages are of the people who voted, so in a multiple-choice poll they can add up to more than 100%.

Ending a poll

• It closes by itself at the end time, and Guard posts the results underneath: the winner (or a tie), the chart, and for named polls who voted for what.
• Close it early: /poll end and pick the poll (the person who made it, or staff).
• See the results any time (only you see them): /poll results.

Privacy

• Votes are deleted 30 days after a poll closes.
• Anonymous polls: Guard never stores who voted. It keeps a scrambled code (so people can change their vote), and throws away the key to it when the poll closes. After that, nobody can work out who voted for what.
• Members get the polls they voted in with /mydata.

Why not Discord's own polls?

Discord's built-in polls are good, but they can't be limited to a role, they always show who voted for what (so they can't be anonymous), and they have to end within 32 days. Guard's polls can do all three.

Troubleshooting