Poll Maker Bot: What the Terms Say and What the Tool Does
Poll Maker's terms prohibit bots from voting in its polls. Its fraud detection looks for automated, duplicated or coordinated votes, and it may filter, flag or discard anything it does not believe is genuine. So a poll maker bot has no sanctioned role here: the supported routes are a shared link, an embed on a website, or a share on a platform such as Facebook, with the creator managing visibility and results in the dashboard.
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What the terms catch
Poll Maker's terms are short and blunt about automation. They rule out bots from voting in its polls, and they group organised vote farms with them in the same clause. That single line settles the matter: a poll maker bot is not a feature the tool offers or tolerates, it is a pattern the rules name in order to stop it. Everything else below describes what the tool does offer instead.
Behind the rule sits fraud detection. Poll Maker says it looks for votes and responses that are automated, duplicated or coordinated, so scripted traffic carries patterns even when each individual vote looks ordinary on its own. Votes the company reasonably believes are not genuine may be filtered, flagged or discarded. An account that seriously or repeatedly breaches the fair-voting terms can be suspended or closed, and its content can be removed with it.
- Automated, duplicated and coordinated voting are the three patterns its fraud detection is built to catch.
- Suspect votes may be filtered, flagged or discarded rather than counted.
- A serious or repeated breach can cost the account, not only the votes.
Poll maker bot on Discord
Search Discord for a poll maker bot and you find plenty of server tools. They belong to a different job. A Discord bot creates a poll inside a channel, runs it while the channel watches, closes it on a timer and posts the results as a message. Poll Maker is not that. Its documentation describes three ways to reach voters: a direct link, an embed on a website, and a share wherever the audience gathers, with results from every route combined into one tally.
The two worlds meet only in the rules. A Discord poll bot that creates and closes polls inside a server breaks nothing on Poll Maker, because it never touches a Poll Maker link. A tool built to cast votes into one does: those are exactly the bots the terms prohibit and the pattern fraud detection scans for. Read a bot's own permissions as closely as the contest's rules before anything is installed on a server.
- A server bot creates, runs and closes polls inside Discord, and posts the results as a channel message.
- Poll Maker reaches voters through a link, an embed or a share, and merges the tallies from every route.
- Bots that cast votes are the ones the terms name and the fraud detection scans for.
Hide your results from voters
Results are on by default, and the switch that hides them sits in the Settings tab. Open the Basic section and tick Hide results after voting. From that moment voters see no totals at all, even after they have voted, and the Results button disappears from the poll because there is nothing left for it to open.
Two details catch makers out. Hiding only the Results button does not hide the results; in that setup a voter who has just voted can still see the tally, so use the proper Hide results option whenever the numbers must stay sealed. And if the poll is already embedded on a site, save it again and paste fresh embed code from the Share tab, because the old embed keeps behaving the old way.
- The switch lives in Settings, Basic: Hide results after voting.
- Hidden means hidden: voters see nothing, even after they have voted.
- The Results button goes with it, since it has nothing left to show.
- A live embed needs saving and repasting before it picks the setting up.
Add pictures and video
Pictures are the documented route. Click the image icon on the right side of a question or an answer and the advanced editor opens. From there you can upload a file, paste its web address, or search Unsplash and GIPHY without leaving the editor; answers take images from your own files too. Crop the picture to fit the layout, or switch cropping off to show the whole frame.
Video is where the honest caveat belongs. Poll Maker advertises pictures and video together as things a poll can integrate, but its guide documents only the image procedure: uploads, pasted addresses, the two built-in libraries. If a round of a contest needs clips, try one in the editor before promising anything, and fall back to a linked image or a thumbnail if the editor refuses.
- The image icon sits beside each question and each answer.
- Uploads, pasted addresses, Unsplash and GIPHY are the supported sources.
- Cropping is optional; switch it off to show the whole picture.
- Pictures on a poll are a Starter-plan feature.
Run the poll on your website
An embed is the whole trick. Save the poll, open the Share tab, choose Embed, and paste the code into your page wherever it accepts HTML. Copy all of the code; a snippet cut short renders nothing. Every vote keeps flowing into the same tally, because votes from the embed and votes from the direct link add up to one set of results.
Some website builders strip scripts out of pasted code. When that happens the standard embed fails quietly, so Poll Maker offers two fallbacks: the Compatible (No Javascript) embed type, or an IFRAME embed at a fixed size. Pick one, copy the code again, repaste it, and answer the poll once yourself to confirm the buttons work.
- Copy all of the embed code into an HTML block on your page.
- Embedding is a Starter-plan feature.
- The IFRAME embed holds a fixed size when a layout needs one.
Multiple questions, one poll
Poll Maker's guide walks through one question and the answers beneath it; stacking multiple questions inside a single poll is not part of that procedure. When a round needs several questions, makers run separate polls and share each link in turn, or move the whole exercise to a survey tool that treats question lists as the normal case. The trade-off is a results page per poll instead of one combined sheet.
- One poll carries one question and the answers under it.
- Separate polls mean separate results pages.
- A survey tool handles a list of questions in a single form.
What a creator controls, and what no setting does
The dashboard is the control room: hide results, add images, embed, share, and read the tally as it lands. What it does not contain is a whitelist for automated voting. No setting lets a bot past fraud detection, no plan tier makes suspect votes count, and the terms apply to every route a vote can arrive by, link or embed alike. That is the honest boundary of the tool: it counts what comes in, and its rules decide what stays counted.
- Settings decide visibility, images and embedding; none of them touches the bot rule.
- Fraud detection runs on the vote stream itself, wherever a vote arrived from.
- A discarded vote is gone from the tally; the terms, not the dashboard, decide what stays counted.
| Feature | Where it lives | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Hide results | Settings tab, Basic section | Voters never see totals; the Results button is removed |
| Add a picture | Image icon beside a question or answer | Upload, paste an address, or search Unsplash and GIPHY |
| Embed on a site | Share tab, Embed | Code pasted into an HTML block; results combine with link votes |
| Embed type | Embed menu | Compatible or IFRAME when a site strips scripts |
| Bot votes | Terms and fraud detection | Automated votes filtered, flagged or discarded |
How to do it
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Save the poll first
Nothing embeds until the poll is saved, so give the question and the answers a last read and press save.
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Open Share, then Embed
The Share tab holds the embed code next to the plain link. Choose Embed and the code appears ready to copy.
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Copy the whole code
Copy all of it into an HTML block on your page. A truncated snippet renders nothing, so paste the complete block and reload before moving on.
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Swap the embed type if scripts are stripped
If your platform removes scripts, choose Compatible (No Javascript) or IFRAME (Fixed Size) and copy the code again. Repaste it, reload the page, and answer once to confirm the poll renders and the buttons respond.
Common questions
I want to add multiple questions?
Poll Maker's guide documents a poll as a single question with its answers, so multiple questions mean separate polls. Create one poll per question, share each link where the voters already are, and read each tally on its own results page. A survey tool is the alternative when the questions belong together in one form.
I want the Poll to run on my website?
Yes. Save the poll, open the Share tab, choose Embed, and paste the code wherever your site accepts HTML. Embedding is available on the Starter plan, and votes from the embed and the direct link combine into one result set. If your site strips scripts, pick the Compatible or IFRAME embed type and copy the code again.
I want to share my Poll on Facebook?
Yes. Copy the poll's link and paste it into a post, a group or a message, or use the embed code where HTML is accepted. Poll Maker says results from all platforms integrate, so taps from a Facebook link and votes from a website embed land in one tally with no manual adding.
Can bots vote in a Poll Maker poll?
No. The terms prohibit bots, and fraud detection looks for automated, duplicated or coordinated votes. Votes the company reasonably believes are not genuine may be filtered, flagged or discarded, and a serious or repeated breach of the fair-voting terms can cost the account itself, content included.
Can I add pictures or video to a poll?
Pictures, yes. Click the image icon beside a question or an answer to open the advanced editor, then upload a file, paste its web address, or search Unsplash and GIPHY. Video is the gap: the feature is advertised, but the documented how-to covers images only, so test any clip before you rely on it.
Where these facts come from
- poll-maker.com. poll-maker.com/Terms.
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- poll-maker.com. poll-maker.com/PollMaker-Help.
- poll-maker.com. poll-maker.com/Guides.
This page documents rules and mechanics only. Poll Maker's terms prohibit bots, and nothing here explains how to automate votes or slip past fraud detection. No setting makes a suspect vote count, and no method on this page guarantees a result. The tool's own terms decide what a genuine vote is; the dashboard only counts what survives that decision.
X prohibits coordinating with or compensating others to inflate engagement metrics, and it names Polls among the features covered. The Pet Industry Business Awards name the consequence in their own contest: a business may be investigated, lose votes or be disqualified on reasonable evidence of purchased votes. No seller can stop an organiser from doing that.
Slido says it is alerted when an event gets an unusually high number of votes in a very short time, and Crowdsignal says its built-in measures detect patterns of potentially abusive voting. Ordinary participation arrives spread across the voting window, from different people at different moments. Nothing on this site is a method for getting a vote past a check, and a vote that a tool blocks does not count.
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Votes ordered for a poll that never appear on its count are refunded after the poll closes. A refund never covers an organiser's decision: Localsearch may void all votes for a disqualified nominee, and Mentimeter says a user whose access it cancels under its Acceptable Use Policy is owed no refund or compensation. No result is promised.