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Philip Newton ([personal profile] pne) wrote2003-06-25 12:52 pm

Something I learned about polls

If you want to see the results of a poll but don't want to fill it out, you can, of course, click on the poll title and then on "View Poll Results". However, that only gives the results to you once.

If you simply click on "Submit Poll", though, then LiveJournal will also remember that you have "filled out" the poll, and will thereafter show you the results. However, you won't show up in the answers specifically (which makes sense, since you haven't answered anything).

I can see how this is especially useful for people who make their own polls, but I've also used it in the past to see the results on my Friends page of a poll I had no particular opinion about—so I didn't want to fill it out, but neither did I want to see the checkboxes and entry fields starting at me from my Friends page each time.

Thanks for [livejournal.com profile] pthalogreen for pointing this out to me.

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[personal profile] pthalo 2003-06-25 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Your welcome :) I don't remember how I found it out. Maybe I just tried it on one of my entries. it was a while ago. :)

[identity profile] nik-w.livejournal.com 2003-06-26 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
That's a really cool feature:)