Title: Anonymous polling feature
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Anonymous polling feature

 *  Resolved [fredandcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredandcharlie/)
 * (@fredandcharlie)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anonymous-polling-feature/)
 * Can YOP Poll be used to collect anonymous votes? Our site members are having 
   elections, but they don’t want anyone to know who they voted for.
 * If I could block the logs from showing the username for each vote, that might
   do it.
 * Any ideas?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yop-poll/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yop-poll/)

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 *  Plugin Author [YOP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yourownprogrammer/)
 * (@yourownprogrammer)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anonymous-polling-feature/#post-3789413)
 * Hi fredandcharlie,
 * In the poll’s menu, go to Edit, then Other Options and in Vote Permisions choose“
   Guest Only” and save the changes.
 * This way, only users who are not logged in will be able to vote.
 * Best regards,
    YOP Team
 *  Thread Starter [fredandcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredandcharlie/)
 * (@fredandcharlie)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anonymous-polling-feature/#post-3789449)
 * Thanks, but if the user is not logged in, I can’t be sure they aren’t voting 
   more than once. I don’t think cookie and ip tracking will work since some members
   might actually share computers. Ideally, I would be able to see who voted, but
   just wouldn’t know who they voted for. Is this possible with YOP Poll?
 *  Plugin Author [YOP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yourownprogrammer/)
 * (@yourownprogrammer)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anonymous-polling-feature/#post-3789483)
 * Hey,
 * We are sorry but the current version of the plugin does not include this option.
 * Regards,
 * YOP Team
 *  [Maples](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenmaplesgmailcom/)
 * (@kenmaplesgmailcom)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anonymous-polling-feature/#post-3789558)
 * We are looking for this as well, but at a very basic level.
 * I would like to have the option to have the answer value masked the ‘Answer’ 
   column on the Logs screen for certain polls. Though who voted for what is still
   available in the raw data in the DB, I do not see anyone caring enough for it
   to be that big of a deal.
 * Maybe an option that when set on a pull would replace the answer result with #########
   in the sting before displaying the results.
 *  [Maples](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenmaplesgmailcom/)
 * (@kenmaplesgmailcom)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anonymous-polling-feature/#post-3789559)
 * As a quick and ugly work around, I modified the following lines in admin.php
 * Line 673 is now: ( ‘###HIDDEN###’ ),
 * Line 2374 is now: <?php echo ( ‘###HIDDEN###’ ) ; ?>
 * This should return all the displayed ‘Answer’ results as ###HIDDEN### in Logs
   and the Logs Export.
 *  [dobunzli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dobunzli/)
 * (@dobunzli)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anonymous-polling-feature/#post-3789629)
 * Hello,
    I think this feature is very important. Is it on the schedule for future
   releases ? Thanks in advance for your great plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [YOP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yourownprogrammer/)
 * (@yourownprogrammer)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anonymous-polling-feature/#post-3789630)
 * Hi dobunzli,
 * We will take this feature into consideration and try to implement it in the future.
 * Regards,
 * YOP Team

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anonymous-polling-feature/#post-3789630)
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