Creating a poll
The easiest way to create a poll is to use the poll builder. The poll builder can be accessed from the 
in the topic composer, and allows you to make a poll without needing to know the exact syntax.
Manually creating a poll
To create a poll surround a markdown list with [poll] and[/poll]
[poll]
- option one
- option two
- option three
[/poll]
or
[poll]
* option one
* option two
* option three
[/poll]
or, for numbered options—
[poll]
1. option one
2. option two
3. option three
[/poll]
Any of the above create the following result:
- option one
- option two
- option three
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You can also make a poll with multiple choices. Simply add type=multiple to the opening tag like so:
[poll type=multiple]
- option one
- option two
- option three
[/poll]
This creates the following result:
- option one
- option two
- option three
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To limit the number of choices (or set a minimum), add min=X and/or max=Y
[poll type=multiple min=2 max=2]
- option one
- option two
- option three
[/poll]
This creates the following result:
- option one
- option two
- option three
- option four
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For a numbered poll, enter the following:
[poll type=number min=1 max=10][/poll]
Which produces:
[poll name=“poll_4” type=number min=1 max=10][/poll]
You can also have it increment the numbers in steps using step=X
[poll type=number min=2 max=10 step=2][/poll]
Which produces:
[poll name=“poll_5” type=number min=2 max=10 step=2][/poll]
If multiple polls are used in a single post (like this one!) be sure to give each poll a unique name, or they will not work. Do this by adding name="poll_name" as a parameter.
[poll name="poll_1"]
1. option one
2. option two
3. option three
[/poll]
[poll name="poll_3" type=multiple min=2 max=3]
- option one
- option two
- option three
- option four
[/poll]
[poll name="poll_5" type=number min=2 max=10 step=2][/poll]
Lastly, any poll can have the voters made “public” by adding public=true to the parameter list.
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- Yes
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