i tried it out myself with two different, newly registered users and did not have to subscribe... but thanks for the information, anyway.

if you register within a weblog, you automatically subscribe to it (should i change this behaviour?)

er, me stupid... certainly, that's the way how antville membership works. i don't think you should change this behaviour, robert. rather will i change the requirement of membership for voting a poll.

that's by intention and a very good idea imho. i did not want to have a stupid click-as-fast-and-many-as-you-can voting tool... if you look at the poll form again after you have voted, you should find the radio button of your choice being checked. however, you can change your vote until a poll is closed.

Yep, that's right. First I thought it would be nice in some cases to let people vote without being logged in, but it seems ok to have the same policy for votes as for comments...

About the right to create polls: I'd say this should be allowed for the same people who are allowed to write stories. Or, as soon as we have fine-grained permissions, there could be a separate checkbox for letting people create polls...

I like the create/edit-poll form. The "add choice" button is a very simple and comfortable solution.

This will be really valuable feature for work/project group blogs!

actually, i already thought of other poll types (e.g. for multiple choice capability, ie. using checkboxes instead of radio buttons). so it certainly would be possible to provide an "open poll" type as well, where everyone can vote the "wild" way.

what i definitely will change, though, is the membership requirement for voting a poll. being logged in should be sufficient here.

simply click on the "vote" button without selecting a radio button.

(there is no such thing called objectivity if you'd ask me :)

for a "view results" link (available to everyone). To me, it feels right to be able to see the poll result without forcing people to vote first.

Another thing I'd like to see would be a macro that allows to embed the poll into a story. This would allow people to comment on a poll, add more context to the poll presentation, put polls on the home page etc.

i will think about the "view results" link, the macro is already in the making. hey, don't you have to do some stuff yourself on the search engine, huh? <g>