Poll Services Guide

In its search for new and unique features, the Global Gamers staff has been working behind the scenes on a new service. Most people have already seen polls on websites, but as of now the Global Gamers IRC network has network-wide poll services, available in any registered channel.

Each channel can add a maximum of 25 polls to its database. Polls can be private (channel only) or public (network wide) which can all be modified with /msg ChanServ PSET. For more information on this, see the PSET help below!

The poll services include many commands to be used by people who have access in the channel in question. Here is a list of the available commands:

POLL - Displays a poll.
/msg ChanServ POLL <#chan> [poll ID]
!poll [poll ID]
This will display the poll and its results and votes.

POLLLIST - Get a list of polls for the channel.
/msg ChanServ POLLLIST <#chan>
!polllist <poll>

ADDPOLL - Adds a poll.
/msg ChanServ ADDPOLL <#chan> <poll text>
!addpoll <poll text>

UPDATEPOLL - Update the poll question
/msg ChanServ UPDATEPOLL <#chan> <poll ID> <new poll text>
!updatepoll <poll ID> <new poll text>

ADDRESULT - Adds a result to a poll
/msg ChanServ ADDRESULT <#chan> <poll ID> <result text>
!addresult <poll ID> <result text>

DELPOLL - Removes a poll.
/msg ChanServ DELPOLL <#chan> <poll ID>
!delpoll <poll ID>

DELRESULT - Removes a result from a poll.
/msg ChanServ DELRESULT <#chan> <poll ID> <result ID>
!delresult <poll ID> <result ID>
To see which are the result IDs, check !poll <poll ID>

PINFO - Gets info on a poll.
/msg ChanServ PINFO <#chan> <poll ID>
!pinfo <poll ID>
This will display settings for that poll, its results and votes.

PSET - Displays or changes poll settings.
/msg ChanServ PSET <#chan> [setting] [value]
!qset [setting] [value]
Settings are:

• GLOBAL: Whether the poll should be global by default.
• ENABLED: Whether the poll services are enabled in the channel.
• ADDPOLLLEVEL: The level required to add polls.
• UPDATEPOLLLEVEL: The level required to update polls.
• ADDRESULTLEVEL: The level required to add results to polls.
• DELPOLLLEVEL: The level required to delete polls.
• DELRESULTLEVEL: The level required to delete results from polls.
• ADDPOLLLEVEL: The level required to add polls.
• PSETLEVEL: The level required to change poll settings.
• POLLLEVEL: The level required to view polls in the channel.
• PVOTELEVEL: The level required to vote on polls.
• PINFOLEVEL: The level required to view poll info.
• POLLLISTLEVEL: The level required to list all polls.

If a setting is not given, it will display the current settings. By default, the poll features are disabled and polls added are local only.
It is also possible to change poll-specific settings through this command. You can change whether a poll is public or private and whether it is multi votes or not (multi votes is equal to checkboxes on websites, if it's off it's like radio buttons). To do this, use:
/msg ChanServ PSET POLL <poll ID> <GLOBAL/MULTIVOTES> <on/off>
!pset POLL <poll ID> <GLOBAL/MULTIVOTES> <on/off>
Instead of a poll ID one can also use the word 'all' which will change the public setting for all polls of the channel at once.

PVOTE - Vote on a poll.
/msg ChanServ PVOTE <#chan> <poll ID> <result ID>
!pinfo <poll ID> <result ID>;