Comments on “Simple Poll
Avi Zuber@avizuber · Product Designer @ Eved
Very cool! My only complaint is that because I integrated it into my team's slack, I vote on every poll regardless of who creates it.
Wilhelm Klopp@wilhelmklopp
@avizuber This is a very good point and a problem I currently don't have a solution to :( The obvious solution is that Simple Poll itself initiates the emoji responses and then *everybody* can vote. However, the Slack API does not currently support this. I have tweeted at them to suggest the functionality that would make this possible: https://twitter.com/wi… See more
John Harrington@johnharringt0n · Creative Technologist, LaunchSquad
@wilhelmklopp @avizuber Have you looked into potentially shifting it from a slash command to a bot? I recently started using Howdy.ai and the bot there is able to add emoji reactions on its own
Wilhelm Klopp@wilhelmklopp
@johnharringt0n @avizuber Yeah, I did consider using a bot. I decided against it for three reasons: 1. Using bots is very cumbersome at the moment. Slash commands work in all channels by default. If you want a bot to work in any channel you have to /invite him first. You get a mugh higher level of out of the box convenience with slash commands. 2. Giving out… See more