Polenta: Live Group Polls

Create a poll with text choices or picture choices. Each poll is one choice, more than one, dot voting, or a word cloud, and it can include a picture with the question. With dot voting, each person spreads a set number of dots across up to 100 items, and the tally ranks the items by dots. With a word cloud, each person types a few words or short phrases, and the room display shows them as a live cloud, larger when more people entered the same word.

Open the room display to show a large code and a QR code. People scan it, or open the join page and type the code. Everyone sees the tally update while the poll is open.

Votes are anonymous. The plugin stores a salted hash of a random browser token and the counts. It does not store an account or an address with the ballot. Word cloud answers are only ever shown together, as counts per word, never by who wrote them. An admin can hide a word from the cloud and the results.