How To Post A Topic Or Reply To One

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Posting a new poll, requires an extra step.

To post a new poll, scroll down and click the box next to "I want to post a poll."



Then type in the number of options you'd like your poll to have. (The max is 10.)

Next, click the "Post Thread" button as you were posting a new topic, to be taken to the "New Poll" window. 



Here, you can enter a topic title, or question for example, let's say that your poll is about peanut butter, except, where it says poll question, you post what you want your poll question to be. Since it is about peanut butter, your question would be:

"What kind of peanut butter do you like?"

You can always repeat the topic question, in the poll question area, or you can have them separate and put something else, it's really up to you.

In the Poll Options section, you list your poll choices on a separate line. Again, since your poll is about peanut butter, your choices would be like this.

Like this.

Creamy
Crunchy
Both
Neither
Other..



After that, scroll down to the "Options" area.



In this area, you will have 2 additional options.

1. You can choose whether or not your poll should be single or multi-choice. With this option selected, users will be able to choose more than one option, instead of just one. 

2. You can also choose whether or not you want your poll to be public, with this option selected, people will be able to see each other's votes. 

Next, go down to the "Poll Timeout" section.



In this area, you can set how many days your poll will remain open. This setting will keep your poll open for whichever time you specified, before locking itself from new votes.

For the sake of discussion, it is a good idea to leave this at zero, this way other users can record their votes, and add to the topic.

After you have made the changes you wanted, you can now click "Post New Poll" to post your poll.  the area beneath the BBCode buttons that is similar to the Add Reply page. In this area, you can either repeat the poll question, or post follow up questions to your poll. Since this poll is about peanut butter, you can use this area to post the following..

"What kind of peanut butter do you like? What is your favorite brand? Why do you like it?"

Once you are finished, scroll to the bottom, and click the button at the bottom that says "Post New Poll." After that, it will submit your post and take you to the poll you just created.

Your poll should look like this.