Allow subscriptions to (certain) polls that are not your own

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Allow subscriptions to (certain) polls that are not your own

Area:
polls, subscriptions, interaction makes the world go 'round

Summary:
With the poll creator and/or community administrator's permission, allow subscriptions to other people's votes in polls.

Description:
With the specific or blanket permission of the journal owner/poll creator/community administrators (and discussion on how the process of granting/revoking permission should go is very welcome, because it's a bit fuzzy in my mind) users should be able to subscribe to poll votes on any permitted poll, and get notifications about votes, customized to their particular level of permission to see the votes in that poll.

Polls where the subscribing user can see answers should give the username of the person voting and a link to the poll similar to what the owner gets (plus a quick unsubscribe link in case it becomes too high-volume).

Polls where the identities of the voters are not viewable to the subscribing user, the notification should merely say that there was a new or changed vote in the poll, with a link (and an unsubscribe link).

Since in some cases the "can view" is dependent on access, permission would have to be checked every time.

Poll #8836 Allow subscriptions to (certain) polls that are not your own

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43

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Should be implemented as-is.
20 (46.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (4.7%)

(I have no opinion)
19 (44.2%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.3%)

Comments

[msilverstar]

This seems a little stalker-y, so if it's implemented, there should also be a list of who is subscribed to the poll. That way, people know who will be notified of their answers.

[aedifica]

But it's no more stalker-y than the existing ability to subscribe to replies to someone else's post or comment.

[ciaan]

Yeah, at first I was put off by the concept, but then I remembered about comment subscribing to other journals, so I guess this is fine as long as you have permission to view the entry/poll results anyway.