Here is the first release of the vBpoll hack. It is still pretty rough aroung the edges, so I would appreciate some feedback. If you have any questions please post them here.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/vb.html

got it running anywhere?

I don't have it running with vB anywhere, but you can check out what it looks like at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/slash

It can (and will) be integrated into vB just like it is integrated into that page.

hmm, was working on one too. Would like to see it in action

not too bad looking. it will be great once it's integrated into the software so people can start poll topics...

How exactly would you like it to be integrated? What is a poll topic? As I have it now you can place a poll anywhere you want on a webpage. I am open to ideas.

My upstream provider had a routing issue for the last 30 minutes or so. I apologize to all who were not able to get to my site. I have a trouble ticket open and everything appears to be OK now.

what i am working is incorparating a poll into a thread post. ie you can post a new thread or a new poll (my implementation will allow also inthe future to post reply polls).

I'm pretty far with it, hopefully by the weekend, I'll have a working test version.

You want anyone to be able to post a poll? hmm. To be honest I didn't think of that. You could do that extremely easily with mine - just do not password protect the admin.php file and then make a link to it that says something like "create a poll".

Doron has the right idea - polls that can be started just like a Thread, appear in the forum listing just as a thread and allows replies to be posted in the poll thread (and perhaps more polls).