Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-36009152-20181122165337/@comment-168424-20181127224835

I should have explained why to put polls in templates... the reason is that if you edit a page with a poll on it, you run the risk of resetting the poll, but if you put the poll on a template page and transclude it, you reduce that risk. So, if you have a bunch of polls on a page, every time you want to change or add a poll, you run the risk of resetting all the polls each time. So it is best to have each poll on a separate template page.

Polls should update their info when they load or when you vote.

As for the random thing, it should refresh on new page load, force page refresh, or wiki page purge (add ?action=purge or &action=purge to end of URL).