View your own votes in a creator-only poll

[azurelunatic]

Title:
View your own votes in a creator-only poll

Area:
polls

Summary:
See what you entered when you filled out a poll where the poll creator only may view the specific answers.

Description:
Previously, someone filling out a poll where only the creator could view the specific answers would be able to see what they'd answered when going to change the answer. However, in a move to make blanking out one's answers to a poll easier, the change-answer view now does not display answers.

I'm not sure what the best way to balance the need to be able to easily clear a poll entry, and the need to see one's answers in the poll, would be, but I am confident that dw_suggestions will have ideas.

[Poll closed on account of this being a bug that is now fixed.]

Poll #7987 View your own votes in a creator-only poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 39

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (59.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
14 (35.9%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (5.1%)

Comments

[cesy]

Could the change-answer view have little stars added, the same way we do on the view results page now?

[azurelunatic]

That would help for radio buttons and checkboxes. The moment that inspired me to suggest this was text entry questions, though.

[eruthros]

To be honest, I miss the old behavior overall - in a long poll, if I want to change one answer only, I'd much rather the system filled in my previous answers; I could hit clear answers to clear all my answers. Now there are two different ways to clear my answers, and no ways to see them again except by looking for the * on the results page, or clicking "view answers" for every single question, and that doesn't work for creator-view-only polls.

ETA: Wait, hang on, maybe it's just a bug that I don't see my previous answers at all when I click "change your vote"? Because now I see them sometimes.

[fu]

I agree that it was a bug -- it should be fixed now though!

[azurelunatic]

I'm seeing them now! Yay, bug-fixing!

[fu]

I am almost certain that this is a bug (it should now be fixed)

[ninetydegrees]

The stars! I can see them! Yay! Thank you!

:P

[azurelunatic]

Yay fixing! \o/