New feature: Polls!

[Ballotonia]

I am having a technical problem with the Poll:

I just created a new poll (you can see it at Capitalist Paradise); but despite people casting their vote, the tabs "Summary", "WA", "Influence" and "Population" show nothing. Not even the vertical axis.

The "Voters" tab is the only one working!

[Ballotonia]

Thank you for your report. As you may have noticed, [violet] fixed this.

Ballotonia

[The-CID]

Thank you for your report. As you may have noticed, [violet] fixed this.

Ballotonia

Works perfect.
Thank you!

[[violet]]

Yes, nasty bug that one. Thank you to you and Afforess for reporting it, as it could have been used for a cross-site scripting attack.

[Nephmir]

My region, The Eternal Knights, has had a poll running for over a week now, but the symbols in the poll (stars ★) turned into code. Could you change it back, or explain what happened? Thank you for your time.

[[violet]]

Sorry about that. It's a side-effect of a temporary fix I had to impose due to a failure in user input sanitization. A proper fix will be coming soon.

[Regnum Dominae]

Any chance that it can be made so that a region can run multiple polls at once?

[Dubnia]

I can't seem to figure out how to make the vote on polls private.

[The-CID]

I should mention, I'm particularly interested in hearing ideas for eligibility criteria that you personally want to use. Because no doubt we can think of infinite possibilities that might be useful to someone.

I humble suggest that the eligibility criteria should be:

- Length of Residency: Set how many days in the region a nation should spend (instead of the actual "Residency")
- Level of Influence: Set the amount of influence (in numbers) a nation should have (instead of the actual "Native")
- Amount of Population: Set the amount of population a nation should have (instead of the actual "Long Nations")
- Secret-ish ballots: Show WA/Influence/Population tabs but not the Voters tab

We are in need of the last eligibility criteria badly. Secret-ish ballots are really necessary for us to vote for Government positions. I believe it was also suggested the alternative: Private ballots (show summary tab only but the Delegate & Founder can see the other tabs). From this two options, the one easier to code, for sure will do it.

[The Eternal Knights]

Would it be possible to add under the restrictions, "Embassy Regions"? That way only nations in your region and embassy regions could vote in a poll. Since we have the RMB embassy chat feature now and all that.

[[violet]]

Would it be possible to add under the restrictions, "Embassy Regions"?

Good idea! I'll look into it.

[Christian Democrats]

I'd like to have the ability to target polls toward one kind of nation OR another kind of nation.

E.g., This poll is open to resident WA members or to residents with a high amount of influence.

[Sacara]

I think it would be a good idea to add in the options before a poll is made, called "Multiple Choice" It would ask how many choices to vote you want to give people, that way people can vote for two things, instead of one. And so on.

[Escade]

My region, The Eternal Knights, has had a poll running for over a week now, but the symbols in the poll (stars ★) turned into code. Could you change it back, or explain what happened? Thank you for your time.

What is the code to make stars and is that for polls only or for the RMB?

[Enfaru]

My region, The Eternal Knights, has had a poll running for over a week now, but the symbols in the poll (stars ★) turned into code. Could you change it back, or explain what happened? Thank you for your time.

What is the code to make stars and is that for polls only or for the RMB?

Aside from the gravedig (see The One Stop Rules Shop), the stars is either HTML entity, Unicode or ASCII code. References for these can be found online but has nothing to do with Nationstates.

Nationstates currently supports most UTF-8 symbols natively. (There are exceptions). Nationstates does not support UTF-16

[Voltrovia]

Is there any way to view past polls?

Never mind: https://www.nationstates.net/page=polls/v=all

[Glorfindol]

On the topic of puppet flooding polls, would it be possible to "lock" the eligibility for the duration of the vote

Eg, if the poll is restricted to resident nations in the region , a nation could not simply move into the region to become eligible once the poll has been posted, ie they would have to be a resident before it is put up?

Obviously I am not suggesting that the regions borders are closed, merely that qualification to vote is frozen to prevent "poll tourism".

[Indian Empire]

On the topic of puppet flooding polls, would it be possible to "lock" the eligibility for the duration of the vote

Eg, if the poll is restricted to resident nations in the region , a nation could not simply move into the region to become eligible once the poll has been posted, ie they would have to be a resident before it is put up?

Obviously I am not suggesting that the regions borders are closed, merely that qualification to vote is frozen to prevent "poll tourism".

I think you can use a "Native" filter for residence, but don't quote me on that.

[Kaboomlandia]

On the topic of puppet flooding polls, would it be possible to "lock" the eligibility for the duration of the vote

Eg, if the poll is restricted to resident nations in the region , a nation could not simply move into the region to become eligible once the poll has been posted, ie they would have to be a resident before it is put up?

Obviously I am not suggesting that the regions borders are closed, merely that qualification to vote is frozen to prevent "poll tourism".

I think you can use a "Native" filter for residence, but don't quote me on that.

Unfortunately, the "Native" means "more influence in home region than any other", so if it was a nation that legitimately moved in yesterday, they're out of luck.

[Glorfindol]

The logic of "native" is immaculate and works - for nations that already exist.

However, newly created nations have no influence, so can be spawned in a feeder and, as long as they relocate quickly, can circumvent this device

I guess that the happenings could be used - any nation that has moved into the region for the duration of the poll could probably be identified manually and if they vote then it could be discounted - just would be nice to prevent them voting in the first place

Only thing - checking the API for the happenings shard, it doesn't appear to have a very wide range.
The "Activity" page for a region can be expanded to cover a wider region but the amount of other events detailed would probably dictate a gargantuan filtering task to cover the longest poll period for larger, busier region.

[Pollaetorian]

Bump.

Would it be possible to have as a display option to show the number of residents vs the number of outsiders voting in a poll? I think this would make public polls more useful and interesting, as it allows a comparison of the region's opinion on an issue versus the rest of the world.

Edit: This might defeat the purpose of having a "residents only" restriction, but this might actually be a good thing, if the two-in-one ability of this feature means more polls can be made public. The 'residents only' restriction still has uses too, if the region doesn't want the headline public vote figures influencing how region members vote.

[The Blaatschapen]

Bump.

Would it be possible to have as a display option to show the number of residents vs the number of outsiders voting in a poll? I think this would make public polls more useful and interesting, as it allows a comparison of the region's opinion on an issue versus the rest of the world.

And also the effect poll raiders have

[Quenching Fires]

This would be similar too to how WA proposals show total votes and the votes from within your region only.