Polls should be allowed in Question forums

[beerForo]

I recently had a reason to post a poll in Question forum. It would not let me and the admin settings do not allow it. Polls are questions. With defined answers. I would like to suggest they be allowed in Question forums. So when creating a Question forum, you can select "Polls" if you want users to be able to create them there, same as in General Discussion. Thank you. (One could argue this should also be possible in Article type, but for the sake of this suggestion with polls being actual questions, I am only suggesting the above.)

 

[StarArmy]

I think the logic is that a thread in a question forum already is a sort of poll--with the votes being conducted via upvotes/downvotes of replies.

If you had a thread featuring both voting enabled and a poll at the same time, it creates two places for users to vote, which could get confusing.

 

[beerForo]

I forgot to add a point. Admins can disable voting for the purposes of posting an announcement or sticky etc. And I approached this as an admin. So perhaps this could be a staff feature, or, voting could be disabled when selecting Poll. So it could be for everyone.