Just a little warning about editing polls on Mastodon: if you edit any of the options that people can vote for, it resets all the votes back to zero.

Fedi.Tips 🎄

So, if you're posting a poll, make sure the options are correct at the start and don't edit them later (unless you're okay with resetting the votes).

This reset is apparently to prevent people being fooled into voting for something they don't want.

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Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈

@FediTips

On the web, you can edit the text of the post, as long as you don't touch the poll options. It will reset the poll expiration time when you update. (For example, I've waited 12h into a 24h poll to fix a typo, then set the poll to 12h when I updated it, so it would expire around the original time. Otherwise the poll is extended when you edit the post.)

Not every UI will update the post text without resetting the poll votes. The web supports it.

PaulaToThePeople 😷

@FediTips Mastodon won't let you change your vote, so yeah, editing poll options would be very tempting for abuse.

My tip: If you vote on a poll and don't want your vote to get lost- also give the post a like. Then you'll be notified if the post is edited and you can vote again.