I hope this is fine with the idea of using this thread for feedback, and not giving additional suggestions.
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Yellow parts are mostly redundant, each of the yellow part indicates the element is there to create a poll.
My idea would be this:
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Now you have all the functionality with much fewer options visible for the first view. "New Poll Options" and "Post a Poll" are quite redundant as "Poss Question" is all you need. The admin sets "single choice" as standard as well as "allow voters to change their votes" etc.
- Hide optional not that much used funcitonality behind a "more options" button
- keep the phrases the same as much as possible (only use the word "response", not using two words for the same (well kind of) meaning like "response" and "choice").
- keep it that simple that its so easy to use and does not use so much space
To conclude, I would just add this button to the thread_create template:
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When you click on this button, the above screen is displayed.