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It's this one. It looks fine to me, but two people complained that the poll options are broken. Maybe because I used album cover images instead of text next to the poll options? Sorry about that, BTW; I'm not tech-savvy at all.

Is there something that can be done about it? Thanks.

Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 5 July 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link

The only thing that can be edited in a poll is its title. You'll have to start over.

Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Sunday, 5 July 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link

No problem. Totally my bad.

Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 5 July 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link

It might not be you, Daniel - are the two people admins of some sort? There is a bug here. I need to get that sorted.

Keith, Sunday, 5 July 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Not sure; the two that mentioned it are Trayce ("FYI this poll's broken for images off ppl.") and Kate/Masonic Boom ("Poll is broken").

Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Others seem to be able to vote and see the poll, tho.

Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, it's the images off thing that's the issue. Kate is a mod of something and won't see images and Trayce has them turned off.

Keith, Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Can't wait to see how many votes Pat Buchanan gets in that poll.

Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link

keith is this the same bug you're talking about:
in this thread a poll tribute to the great unheralded cbse question papers of class xii mods could see the poll (which has images but not in the options) before it was closed. after it was closed we can't see it at all. i can't even tell there was a poll there. maybe this happened in other polls but this is just one i remember.

harbl, Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanks, Keith!

I should add Pat Buchanan as an option (e.g., "Pat Buchanan is way more punk than Nirvana"). (xp)

Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link

looks like this to me
http://i44.tinypic.com/2uidc07.png

harbl, Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Link in poll text + image in poll text (not necessarily in poll options - in fact I think these are ok if there isn't an image in the main poll question) = poll is broken for images-off people and mod logins (including mods of other boards?)

a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes, I've figured it out - it's something like that, spacecadet.

It's because it's trying to remove image links - long and complicated story, but if you put a normal link, followed by some images (possibly in the poll options) followed by a normal link, it's recognizing this entire chunk, from start to finish as an image link and removing it.

I've made a change to the expression that spots image links that should stop this happening. Need to test it a bit and then I'll stick it up - it should sort this problem retrospectively, i.e. all the older broken polls should suddenly look OK, if I've fixed it correctly.

Cheers.

Keith, Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link

By the way here is a very dull post I made on this subject, which is mostly of no use since you've already figured it out, but it does have a couple more examples if they're any use for testing

a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 5 July 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link

Great - thanks.

Keith, Sunday, 5 July 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh and sorry - must've missed that back then.

Keith, Sunday, 5 July 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link

OK, looks better so far, but please let me know if there's anything odd.

Thanks.

Keith, Sunday, 5 July 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Looking good here - thanks Keith!

a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 5 July 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link


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