Unlisted poll experiment

[Stephen]

Continuing the discussion from Adding a Poll in your post:

@danfowler

Not to my knowledge, the poll options are quite limited. One option could possibly be to make a given topic “unlisted”, embed the poll in the unlisted topic, and share the topic link only with people eligible to vote. WDYT @nealbastek?

To make a Topic Unlisted I believe needs Admin rights.

On the Topic page, Click the Spanner then choose, Make Unlisted.

It seems this needs to be done after you’ve added the topic, not at the time of posting. There also appears to be some debate on the degree of “invisibility”.

Anyway to continue the experiment, this is a poll in an unlisted topic.

Is this the best way to implement voting for a subset of Open Knowledge members?

• yes
• no, this topic wasn’t very well hidden
• no, this does constrain who can vote well enough
• no, there’s a better way I’ve explained below
• I didn’t find the poll and couldn’t vote

[danfowler]

Thanks for trialing this. What do you think so far?

[Stephen]

I agree with

@Starl3n

I wouldn’t mind seeing others from around the network voting on polls within the Australian group, even if it only related to our local strategy. There is a lot of experience and knowledge here and it would be good to leverage it.

I also think there is trust to leverage, so if we had a question we wanted to put exclusively to those from Australia it should be fine to just mention that in the post and I’m sure people would respect the request

but if a group really wanted a technical solution to restrict the vote to their group, you’d need another solution because:

• you can’t see who’s voted
• you can’t email a link to just your group.

It’s probably good enough for the moment - I was just thinking ahead based on things I see happen in the mail forum and GitHub.