A poll is a question a blogger can attach to a post, with two to five answers for anyone to choose from. You will find it sitting under the post itself, and on the blog's listing and archive pages you will see a small mark showing that a post carries one.
Once you have answered, the results appear as bars, and you can look at how different groups answered using the Gender, Role and Age tabs.
By default the numbers stay hidden until you have answered, so that what everyone else picked does not colour your own choice.
If you would rather not answer, use the "Just show me the results" link on the poll and the numbers will appear. Once voting on a poll has ended, the results are shown to everyone.
Yes. Use the small × beside "You voted …" to take your vote back, and then choose again if you like. Your original answer is not kept.
You cannot do this once voting on the poll has ended.
It depends on the poll, and the poll says which it is before you answer.
On an ordinary poll your name appears in the "See who voted" list beside the answer you chose, and the poll tells you so with the line "Voter names will be visible to everyone". On an anonymous poll no names are shown at all, only the totals. The blogger chooses this when they create the poll and cannot change it once somebody has voted.
Premium members can add a short note of under 200 characters to their vote on an ordinary poll, and it appears beside their name in the list of voters. You can clear it again at any time while the poll is open.
Notes are not available on anonymous polls, since there is no name to attach them to.
They break the same results down by who answered, so you can see, for instance, whether doms and subs answered differently. The numbers come from what members have chosen to share on their profiles, and anyone who has not shared a detail is counted separately rather than guessed at.
Tap any row to see just those voters. On a small poll treat the figures as a hint rather than a finding.
Any Premium member can add a poll to their own blog post. Everyone can answer them, whether or not they have a subscription.
Until somebody votes, yes. You can change the question, the answers, the deadline and whether the poll is anonymous.
The moment the first vote arrives the poll locks, because the people who have already answered answered the question as it was written. After that you can still end the voting, or delete the poll entirely.
As long as you like. When you create one you can leave it open-ended, or set it to close after 3, 7, 14 or 30 days.
You can also end the voting yourself at any time using "End voting" on the poll. That cannot be undone: the results freeze as they are and nobody can answer afterwards.
It goes with it. Deleting a blog post removes the poll attached to it and everything that was answered, and any notification about that poll disappears too.