🆕 Have duckbot facilitate polls

[jameshughes89]

Duckbutt could manage polls for the chat. An example use case would be voting for a game for game night.

Basic ideas to consider, but idk how feasible each would be at this stage:

• Pose questions and get votes
• have mutually exclusive votes
• have votes where one can select n things
• have the ability to make it anonymous
• ability to close polls
• set poll timers (vote closes at 1:00pm)

If others have additional ideas, throw em' in.

[jameshughes89]

Could also plot results.

[twentylemon]

What would you say is the expected behaviour of the bot? A specific list of commands, etc, would clarify how you actually see this working.

Also, do we care about persistence? Do poll results need to be in the database, or just in memory?

[Chippers255]

Curious if we can create a clean command structure for this? Most poll systems I have seen on other discord channels have a user post a message and allow selection through emojis. Something like this could be easily achieved.

[jameshughes89]

What would you say is the expected behaviour of the bot? A specific list of commands, etc, would clarify how you actually see this working.

I do not, as of now, have any hard ideas other than the poll itself. Will be letting the ideas brew.

Also, do we care about persistence? Do poll results need to be in the database, or just in memory?

Was originally thinking no DB, and if a plot of the result was sent to chat, it would be there. DB could be good, but perhaps that's more future problem if the needs arise.

[jameshughes89]

Curious if we can create a clean command structure for this? Most poll systems I have seen on other discord channels have a user post a message and allow selection through emojis. Something like this could be easily achieved.

I saw examples of how others do it in discord, and it doesnt seem to have a great way to anonymize, thus duckpoll was proposed.

[twentylemon]

Message commands could work here, though maybe not very intuitive. I also don't think discord.py supports them.

[EldaveO]

I'm willing to help work on this with you, as I enjoy the idea quite a bit.

It seems like we're going to have to flesh out the concept a little bit more before doing the legwork.

[EldaveO]

I really liked the message that was sent and formatted in the discord by James, then adding the reactions on the bottom.
Perhaps Duckbot could read what the desired Emojis are (or use a standard emoji set) put an initial reaction in for each one. Then count once the poll is closed.

Example formatting

Vote: Desired game for tonight (poll closes at 4:00 PM EST)

• 🍄 Gloomhaven
• ⚽ Carballo
• 😈 Diablol 2
• 👿 Diablol 3
• 🐘 AoE2
• ♟️ TTS
  1🍄 1⚽ 1😈 1👿 1🐘 1♟️

[twentylemon]

Curious if we can create a clean command structure for this? Most poll systems I have seen on other discord channels have a user post a message and allow selection through emojis. Something like this could be easily achieved.

I saw examples of how others do it in discord, and it doesnt seem to have a great way to anonymize, thus duckpoll was proposed.

[EldaveO]

I saw examples of how others do it in discord, and it doesnt seem to have a great way to anonymize, thus duckpoll was proposed.

Is anonymity required for voting/ polling in our use case? I feel that it doesn't matter, but if others feel like it does then we can figure out a way to make it happen.

[jameshughes89]

Is anonymity required for voting/ polling in our use case? I feel that it doesn't matter, but if others feel like it does then we can figure out a way to make it happen.

The anonymousness was a significant part of the idea. Otherwise, it's trivial for us to just do it like we just did.

[EldaveO]

Can bots remove emoji set by users? If so we may be able to do a similar formatting style, but have duckbot remove the user Emoji and increase it's count. It wouldn't be fully anonymous, as your vote would only be revealed for a second or two until Duckbot/ Poll removes it.

Thoughts?

[twentylemon]

Should be possible to remove a reaction. DuckBot would need some admin-esque permissions, but I think it already has those, since it can delete other people's messages.