# JabRef's discourse includes creating a poll when creating a new "Features" topic, however, new users are not allowed to create polls

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/jabrefs-discourse-includes-creating-a-poll-when-creating-a-new-features-topic-however-new-users-are-not-allowed-to-create-polls/2104>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [May 17, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/jabrefs-discourse-includes-creating-a-poll-when-creating-a-new-features-topic-however-new-users-are-not-allowed-to-create-polls/2104 "2020-05-17T10:13:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![lockywolf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/lockywolf/32/693_2.png) [@lockywolf](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/lockywolf)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/jabrefs-discourse-includes-creating-a-poll-when-creating-a-new-features-topic-however-new-users-are-not-allowed-to-create-polls/2104/1 "2020-05-17T10:13:12Z")

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Below is a little bit obscured default template for the creation of a new topic on [https://discourse.jabref.org/](https://discourse.jabref.org/) . It is, however, impossible to create a topic according to this template, since poll creation is restricted for new users (and maybe for someone else too).

```auto
Here comes the feature description....

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Please vote if you support this proposal:
[poll]
* I would like to have this feature, too!
* I don't care.
[/poll]

```

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**Author:** ![Jason](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/jason/32/606_2.png) [@Jason](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Jason)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/jabrefs-discourse-includes-creating-a-poll-when-creating-a-new-features-topic-however-new-users-are-not-allowed-to-create-polls/2104/2 "2020-05-19T08:53:19Z")

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I tried it and successfully created a poll

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**Author:** ![lockywolf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/lockywolf/32/693_2.png) [@lockywolf](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/lockywolf)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/jabrefs-discourse-includes-creating-a-poll-when-creating-a-new-features-topic-however-new-users-are-not-allowed-to-create-polls/2104/3 "2020-05-19T09:13:59Z")

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Very good. Please continue helping to debug this until the particular configuration when creating pools fails is found.