tomcasavant / pollmaubot

A polling plugin for Riot (using maubot)

Archiving since Matrix/Element have had poll support for a few years now

Poll Maubot

A plugin for maubot that creates a poll in a riot room and allows users to vote

Usage

'!poll new "Question" "Choice1" "Choice2" "Choice3"' - Creates a new poll with given (at least 1) choices

The user can now also create polls with line-breaks:

!poll new What is my question?
Choice1
Choice2
Choice3

'!poll results' - Displays the results from the poll

'!poll close' - Ends the poll

Users vote by adding the matching emoji to the poll (i.e. if the first choice has a 👍 then in order to pick that choice the user has to react with 👍)

Version 3.0 (Latest release)

• Made emoji options more accessible
• Bot now reacts to itself with emoji options
• The user can now define emoji options
• User can define answers with line-breaks rather than quotes

Older Releases:

Version 2.0

• Changed voting format to reactions (instead of '!poll vote')

Version 2.0.1

• Allows every room to have unique poll

Wish List

• Add user configuration to only allow certain users to create polls
• Add auto-timing ability
• Make emojis configurable
• Add placeholder emojis on each poll (to let users just click one)

pollmaubot's Issues

Reaction-based polls

Reactions now landed in all Riot releases, so will be good to implement mode for vote to poll via reactions to initial message. So bot check poll items and add reactions via emoji symbols: 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ and as results - count number of same reactions from other users.

Option to not randomize the emojis?

By using random emojis each time a poll is created, the user is burdened with the task of finding the emojis each time.
It would be good to have the option to always use the same (quick reaction) emojis, for example.

Exception in MessageEvent reply()

Last Maubot update seems to have changed the reply() params.
I got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/mxbots/lib/python3.7/site-packages/mautrix/client/client.py", line 188, in dispatch_manual_event
    await handler(data)
  File "/home/pi/mxbots/lib/python3.7/site-packages/maubot/handlers/command.py", line 105, in __call__
    ok, res = await self.__call_subcommand__(evt, call_args, remaining_val)
  File "/home/pi/mxbots/lib/python3.7/site-packages/maubot/handlers/command.py", line 122, in __call_subcommand__
    remaining_val=remaining_val)
  File "/home/pi/mxbots/lib/python3.7/site-packages/maubot/handlers/command.py", line 113, in __call__
    return await self.__mb_func__(self.__bound_instance__, evt, **call_args)
  File "/home/pi/mxbots/plugins/casavant.tom.poll-v1.0.0.mbp/poll.py", line 85, in handler
    await evt.reply(response, html_in_markdown=True)
TypeError: reply() got an unexpected keyword argument 'html_in_markdown'

from maubot/matrix.py repo:

def reply(self, content: Union[str, MessageEventContent],
		  event_type: EventType = EventType.ROOM_MESSAGE, markdown: bool = True,
		  allow_html: bool = False) -> Awaitable[EventID]:
	return self.respond(content, event_type, markdown=markdown, reply=True,
						allow_html=allow_html)

commit which made the changes:
maubot/maubot@1d03fd8#diff-ba5078c6c9a3d6373e6d25edb3a77bca

Use line break as alternative items separator

Now bot parse poll title and items via quotes, this is not so user friendly. Will be good to have alternative mode via line breaks, so first line is topic, each second line is option:

!poll new Poll topic text
Choice 1
Choice 2 long text
Choice 3 longer longer text

And for multiline text we may still use quotes:

!poll new "Poll topic text
second line of topic"
Choice 1
"Choice 2 multiline
item
text"
Choice 3 longer longer text

Or \ at end of line (for programmers 🙂):

!poll new Poll topic text\
second line of topic
Choice 1
Choice 2 multiline\
item\
text
Choice 3 longer longer text