Polls
Up to twenty options, voted with reactions, buttons or a dropdown — single or multiple choice, with results live, hidden until the end, or anonymous.
Polls are created from the dashboard or with /poll create, which walks you through it with a short wizard.
Choices
- Up to twenty, marked A to T. Letters rather than numbers, because Discord's keycap emoji stop at ten and eleven onward need two glyphs — which a button's single emoji slot cannot hold.
- Twenty choices is four rows of buttons plus one control row, which is Discord's five-row maximum.
- Pick your own emoji per choice and Arclo leaves it alone; the lettered markers are only a default.
ArcloBOTToday at 14:32
When should we run the next event?
🇧 Saturday afternoon
🇨 Sunday afternoon
Ends in 2 days
Vote styles
| Style | How members vote | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Reactions | React with the choice's marker | The default. No components on the message. |
| Buttons | One button per choice | Clearest for a handful of options. |
| Dropdown | A select menu | Best for long lists; Discord itself enforces the per-member choice cap. |
Reactions cannot be private
Discord shows both the counts and who reacted, so reaction voting is incompatible with hidden and anonymous results. Arclo refuses that combination rather than pretending — the builder warns you as you set it.
Rules
- Single or multiple choice
- In single mode, picking again replaces the previous vote in one operation, so a double-click can never leave two.
- Maximum choices per member
- For multiple-choice polls.
- Allow vote changes
- Whether clicking your own choice again removes the vote.
- Vote cap
- A total number of votes that closes the poll automatically. Different from the per-member cap.
- Ends
- After a duration, at a specific moment, or never.
Results
| Mode | Who sees the tally |
|---|---|
| Live | Everyone, as it happens |
| Hidden | Nobody until the poll closes — managers can peek with /poll show |
| Anonymous | Sealed for everyone; the voters browser is removed entirely |
The poll message itself shows the choices; the tally is a separate thing, used by the closed message, the Results button, the announcement and /poll show. Bars, percentages and counts are switches on the results rendering.
Extras
- Optional Results, Voters and Remove my vote buttons, all off by default.
- A thread can be opened for discussion and closed with the poll.
- Creator and manager roles decide who may make and manage polls.
Commands
/poll create <question> <choice-1> <choice-2> [choice-3 … choice-10] [channel] [duration] [mode] [max-choices] [max-votes] [results] [allow-vote-change] [allowed-role] [blocked-role] [vote-style] [ping-role] [pin] [announce-results]Poll creatorsStarts a poll right from Discord, with a review step before it goes live.
/poll edit <poll> [question] [duration] [end-time] [add-choice] [remove-choice] [mode] [max-choices] [max-votes] [results] [allow-vote-change] [allowed-role] [blocked-role]EveryoneEdits a running poll — question, duration, choices and options.
/poll end [poll]EveryoneCloses a running poll immediately and publishes its results.
/poll show [poll] [public]EveryoneShows a poll's current results — including hidden ones, for managers.
/poll delete <poll>EveryoneDeletes a poll and removes its message from Discord.
Still stuck? Ask in the support server — somebody there has almost certainly configured this before.