A bot for ranked-choice voting. Create polls, submit votes privately, and review results using slash commands.
NOTICE: This bot is in maintenance-mode. No new feature will be developed, but bug fixes and support is still available.
Please read the FAQ
This bot supports various commands to create, participate in, and manage ranked-choice polls. Ballots are sent to users in a private DM.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/poll create |
Create a poll |
/poll results |
View poll results and rankings |
/poll close |
Close a poll |
/poll audit |
(Admin-only) View detailed poll info and receive a CSV file with ballots via a DM |
/poll update |
Set poll properties, like the topic and closing time. You can also reopen polls by updating the closing time |
/unsafe_delete_my_user_data |
Deletes all polls and ballots for a user |
/help |
Displays pollbot help information |
Anyone can create a poll with this command.
/poll create
Example:
/poll create topic:What is the best flavor of icecream? options:vanilla, chocolate, mint chip
Pollbot will respond with a summary of the poll.
To request a ballot, click the "Request Ballot" button at the bottom of the poll. Pollbot will DM you a ballot with instructions.
To submit your votes, DM Pollbot an ordered list of option keys.
Here is an example ballot DM:
[BOT] pollbot
poll#72
Here's your ballot
To vote, order the options from best to worst in a comma-separated list e.g.
C,b,a,dInvalid options will be ignored
Privacy notice: Your user id and current user name is linked to your ballot. Your ballot is viewable by you and bot admins.
What is the best flavor of icecream?
a| vanilla
b| chocolate
c| mint chip
You would respond to this DM with a message like this if you prefer chocolate over mint chip and mint chip over vanilla:
b,c,a
Poll results are currently tabulated using ranked-pair / Tideman analysis.
Anyone can view current and final results publicly with the following command.
/poll results poll_id:<poll-id>
Admins can audit polls and have a CSV file of ballots DMed to them using the following command.
/pollbot audit poll_id:<poll-id>
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If you'd like to delete your personal data, simply use the
/unsafe_delete_my_user_datacommand.
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9 reviews
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over 2 years ago
Pretty good bot considering (as far as I'm aware) there's no other poll bot which allows ranked choice voting, however I'm really struggling with changing the end time using ISO format, and not really sure how it works
over 2 years ago
Great bot idea. Nice attention to detail with the audit and spreadsheets. But, problems are prevalent in my experience. Poor execution. - Ran this bot for about 20 people and 2 of them couldn't turn in a ballot. - My original ballot bugged, but fixed itself when I requested a new one. - The bot accepted invalid ballots that were filled incorrectly and put them in the audit spreadsheet. Although, ...
almost 3 years ago
Excellent ranked-choice polling. I was able to create a ballot with 30 options and it worked very well. Occasionally it will kick back an error but just submit the request again and it will go through.
about 3 years ago
I needed a simple ranked choice-style poll to help run a movie night among friends. This bot fits my needs perfectly! One bit of feedback regarding the recent changes to commands: I liked the previous system of requesting a ballot by reacting with an emoji. It helped me track how many of the server's users have responded, as I prefer to close the poll only once a quorum has weighed in. Is there s ...
about 3 years ago
great bot! very straightforward to use. would be nice if you can add some sort of show poll command for different channels in the server :)
over 3 years ago
It is unique and every detail works perfectly. Congratulations to everyone involved! Bravo!
almost 4 years ago
Simple, straightforward ranked-choice vote. Only one of its kind on discord so far and it works well. Props to the dev. This is condorcet count rather than instant-runoff voting (IRV) or single-transferable vote (STV), but both are very fair forms of count for a ranked-choice vote.
almost 4 years ago
This is awesome, my only complaints would be that it lets voters view the results of the voting before the vote closes which could sway voting unfairly, so maybe make a command that disables that for people without admin permissions. The other complaint is that it forces a closing time on the poll, instead of letting you decide what time the poll should close for yourself, so maybe make that featu ... (edited)
almost 4 years ago
It does ranked choice voting, which I've yet to find any other bot until now that does this. It works as described, so can't really complain about anything.