Sorry as mentioned had some family issues. Yes that's how you remove the name. As for allowing admins only to see the name that would be much more difficult since as you see all I was doing was changing the actual text of the write-in choice to add the username to the text of choice.

It's very possible it might be available in 3.7 since 3.7 will be recording a history of edits in posts.

I am running a patch version of 3.6.5 and awaiting 3.7 now before any upgrade. I will install a 3.6.8 test copy and look into your issue.

I installed a test board with 3.6.8PL2 and installed my product with no problems. What other add-ons are you running?

The only template that has changed (that this product uses) between 3.5.5 & 3.6.8 is "editpoll" which was a non-mandatory change in 3.6.6 that included an option check so you could add options when editing a poll if you exceeded the poll limit.

I have added the feature to turn off the username and if it is turned off there is a moderator log entry each time there is a write in vote.

Like the idea of this hack--would be extremely useful. To be clear before install, have the above issues been addressed/fixed?

I'm sorry I can't be more helpful but I'm running a brazillion other add-ons and I don't really have the time to do any testing right now. To be clear though, the issue I had was votes disappearing altogether. Like I voted for one poll item and wrote in another, then when I checked the thread the following day my write-in poll item was still there but my vote for the other poll item was gone.

Well you cannot add a write-in vote to a poll you have voted in already, the link doesn't even appear.

You can change your vote (remove your vote) and then add a write-in vote. Could it be possible you forgot to vote again after adding the write-in vote? Unless of course you were talking about 2 different polls.

You know I forgot completely about the if conditional to make the "change vote" link disappear if a poll is closed, but as I mentioned in the original post, eventhough the link to change your vote still shows, you cannot change your vote in a closed poll, there is a permission check in the plugin. So while it wasn't really an issue I have updated the template edit so the link to change your vote will not show if the poll is closed.

As for the other issue with 3.6.8 I cannot see how my add-on could be removing a vote, I did reply to the user's problem and the way he described what happened, it could be possible that he forgot to vote again after removing his vote to add a write-in vote. I have tested it in a clean copy of 3.6.8PL2 without any issues.

Found a bug if you allow the "Unregistered / Not Logged In" group to vote in polls. If they change their vote they will change all guest's votes. You only need to upgrade if you allow Unregistered users the ability to vote in polls.

does this work with 3.7.0 beta 3??