Just a little warning about editing polls on Mastodon: if you edit any of the options that people can vote for, it resets all the votes back to zero.
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Just a little warning about editing polls on Mastodon: if you edit any of the options that people can vote for, it resets all the votes back to zero.
So, if you're posting a poll, make sure the options are correct at the start and don't edit them later (unless you're okay with resetting the votes).
This reset is apparently to prevent people being fooled into voting for something they don't want.
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Just a little warning about editing polls on Mastodon: if you edit any of the options that people can vote for, it resets all the votes back to zero.
So, if you're posting a poll, make sure the options are correct at the start and don't edit them later (unless you're okay with resetting the votes).
This reset is apparently to prevent people being fooled into voting for something they don't want.
On the web, you can edit the text of the post, as long as you don't touch the poll options. It will reset the poll expiration time when you update. (For example, I've waited 12h into a 24h poll to fix a typo, then set the poll to 12h when I updated it, so it would expire around the original time. Otherwise the poll is extended when you edit the post.)
Not every UI will update the post text without resetting the poll votes. The web supports it.
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Just a little warning about editing polls on Mastodon: if you edit any of the options that people can vote for, it resets all the votes back to zero.
So, if you're posting a poll, make sure the options are correct at the start and don't edit them later (unless you're okay with resetting the votes).
This reset is apparently to prevent people being fooled into voting for something they don't want.
@FediTips Mastodon won't let you change your vote, so yeah, editing poll options would be very tempting for abuse.
My tip: If you vote on a poll and don't want your vote to get lost- also give the post a like. Then you'll be notified if the post is edited and you can vote again.
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Just a little warning about editing polls on Mastodon: if you edit any of the options that people can vote for, it resets all the votes back to zero.
So, if you're posting a poll, make sure the options are correct at the start and don't edit them later (unless you're okay with resetting the votes).
This reset is apparently to prevent people being fooled into voting for something they don't want.
@FediTips that's actually awesome.
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Just a little warning about editing polls on Mastodon: if you edit any of the options that people can vote for, it resets all the votes back to zero.
So, if you're posting a poll, make sure the options are correct at the start and don't edit them later (unless you're okay with resetting the votes).
This reset is apparently to prevent people being fooled into voting for something they don't want.
@FediTips Just like there is alert about "the poll in which you have voted has ended", it would be nice to have alert "the poll in which have voted was reset".
Should be relatively easy, because the first one already exists (?)
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Just a little warning about editing polls on Mastodon: if you edit any of the options that people can vote for, it resets all the votes back to zero.
So, if you're posting a poll, make sure the options are correct at the start and don't edit them later (unless you're okay with resetting the votes).
This reset is apparently to prevent people being fooled into voting for something they don't want.
@FediTips that's actually clever. A very silly and simple example: I love, just adore ketchup and other tomato sauces, but can't stand raw tomatoes. If I received a question "Do you like tomato sauce?", answered "Absolutely, gimme moar!", and then someone changes it to "raw tomatoes" — boom!, my vote becomes invalid
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