What's the "poll" in purple mean?

[clean_in_ks]

Maybe a dumb question, but on a new post in the sub abuse forum, there's a little purple box that says (chk mark)
poll.....and at the end of the OP's first post, there a place that says "be the first to vote" with two weird acronyms?
What the heck is this??   Haha......thank you in advance.

[Steph_MHModerator]

Glad you all figured it out!

If you need any other help, please do ask!

Steph

[bluebutterfly2222]

Glad to have been of help.

Remember: There are no "dumb" questions, except the ones we don't ask...

All the best re your recovery,
bb

[clean_in_ks]

How COOL is that???? LOL  Thank you SO much for taking the time to explain it to me.  I loved the example you gave me, too.  Helps to SEE it for real, ya know?  What a great tool......now maybe I'll ponder a way to use it in the future Ha!
Bless you~

[bluebutterfly2222]

p.s. Click on this link to see an example of a completed poll:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Thyroid-Disorders/POLL--YES-or-NO---/show/736732

[bluebutterfly2222]

When you click on "post a question" at the top of a forum, above the box where you write, there are two choices, eihter to "ask a question"or t"ake a poll."

Sometimes people inadvertently check the wrong one, which is what appears to have happened in the thread you referred to in the addictions forum, since I didn't see any indication in the post that it was meant to be a poll. (The letters designating the two "choices" didn't seem to be intentional  either, although I couldn't say that for sure.

Sometimes, someone actually does want to take a poll. For example, because one's Vit D level appears to confer risk if it is low and protection if it is in a good range in regard to breast cancer (as well as a number of other diseases,  I set up a poll in the Breast Cancer Forum regarding whether members had had their Vit D level checked, if they planned to, or did not plan to. Once people have voted, the results show up as a pie chart.

Hopes this helps,
bluebutterfly