nips/118.md

# NIP-118

## Polls

`draft` `optional`

This NIP defines the event scheme that describe Polls on nostr.

The NIP makes the following tradeoffs.

1. All votes are public.
2. All responses are editable (latest by timestamp considered last response)

## Events

### Poll Content

The poll event is defined as a `kind:1068` event. Major tags in the poll event are:

- **label**: The accompanying text of the poll.
- **option**: The option tags contain an OptionId(any alphanumeric) field, followed by an option label field.
- **relays**: Set of relays that the poll is expecting respondents to respond on.
- **settings**: A JSON stringified object that may hold poll level configs and client specific configs.

Example Event

```json
{
  "content": "",
  "created_at": 1719888496,
  "id": "9d1b6b9562e66f2ecf35eb0a3c2decc736c47fddb13d6fb8f87185a153ea3634",
  "kind": 1068,
  "pubkey": "dee45a23c4f1d93f3a2043650c5081e4ac14a778e0acbef03de3768e4f81ac7b",
  "sig": "7fa93bf3c430eaef784b0dacc217d3cd5eff1c520e7ef5d961381bc0f014dde6286618048d924808e54d1be03f2f2c2f0f8b5c9c2082a4480caf45a565ca9797",
  "tags": [
    ["label", "Pineapple on Pizza"],
    ["option", "qj518h583", "Yay"],
    ["option", "gga6cdnqj", "Nay"],
    ["relays", "<relay1 url>", "<relay 2 url>"],
    ["settings", "{\"PollType\": \"singlechoice\" }"]
  ]
}
```

### Responses

The response event is a `kind:1018` event. It contains an e tag referencing the poll event it is referencing, followed by one or more response tags.

- **response** : The tag contains "response" as it's first positional argument followed by the option Id selected.

Example Response Event

```json
{
  "content": "",
  "created_at": 1720097117,
  "id": "60a005e32e9596c3f544a841a9bc4e46d3020ca3650d6a739c95c1568e33f6d8",
  "kind": 1018,
  "pubkey": "1bc70a0148b3f316da33fe7e89f23e3e71ac4ff998027ec712b905cd24f6a411",
  "sig": "30071a633c65db8f3a075c7a8de757fbd8ce65e3607f4ba287fe6d7fbf839a380f94ff4e826fbba593f6faaa13683b7ea9114ade140720ecf4927010ebf3e44f",
  "tags": [
    ["e", "1fc80cf813f1af33d5a435862b7ef7fb96b47e68a48f1abcadf8081f5a545550"],
    ["response", "gga6cdnqj"]
  ]
}
```

### Poll Types

Poll Types can be configured in the settings object of the poll, the setting dictates how multiple response tags are handled in the `kind:1018` event.

- **PollType: singlechoice**: The first response tag is to be considered the actual response.
- **PollType: multiplechoice**: The first response tag pointing to each id is considered the actual response, without considering the order.
- **PollType: rankedchoice**: The first response tag pointing to each id is the considered the actual response, while also taking into account the order of the response tags.

### Counting Results

Results can be queried by fetching `kind:1018` events from the relays specified in the poll.
The results displayed should only be 1 vote per pubkey.
In case of multiple events for a pubkey, the event with the largest timestamp should be considered.

### Curation

The clients may configure fetching results by specific people. This can be achieved by creating `kind:30000` follow sets, and fetching results only from the follow set.
Clients can also employ other curation algorithms, like Proof Of Work and Web of Trust scores for result curations.

### Private Polls

This nip does not cover private polling, Clients may follow [forms nip](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1190) for private polling.