[MIRROR] Allow voting statistics to be hidden #2172
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Mirrored on Nova: NovaSector/NovaSector#1178
Original PR: tgstation/tgstation#81686
About The Pull Request
Allows polls to hide the voting statistics, both while the poll is running and when it completes, so that people vote in isolation of knowing what other people are voting for.
It looks like this:
This functionality is also available for custom votes triggered by admins, if they want it.
Why It's Good For The Game
Put simply, if likely to be controversially, sometimes people get upset that an event with a 5% chance of happening occurs 5% of the time. Now they really won't know what the chance was, only that it was picked by a weighted choice.
Lack of knowledge about what other people are currently voting for should also curb "meme votes" where people pile onto something they see other people voting for, your vote in a poll with hidden stats can only be influenced by your own opinion because you can't see what the crowd is doing in order to join their bandwagon.
Changelog
🆑 Jacquerel
add: Displaying the voting statistics is now optional on a per-poll basis, and is disabled for map voting.
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