Results and moderation

Control result timing, minimum response counts, and public text.

Presenter results and attendee results have separate controls. This lets the speaker watch the room without publishing a changing chart to every phone.

Presenter behavior

session.show_results_on_presenter sets the initial behavior while voting is open. The chart button can override it for the current question.

Conf Quiz always shows the participant count to the presenter. When voting closes or a correct answer is revealed, the presenter view always shows:

  • joined participants;
  • submitted answers; and
  • the result visualization.

This closed-voting behavior is not affected by hiding live results.

Attendee behavior

The session switch must be on:

session:
  show_results_on_attendee_devices: true

Attendees see results only after submitting an answer and after voting closes. Their voting form does not subscribe to live counts, so other attendees’ votes cannot clear an answer in progress. The presenter can still watch live counts.

Each question selects live, after_close, after_reveal, or never. The existing live setting now behaves like after_close on attendee devices. after_reveal waits for the answer reveal, and never hides results. If the session switch is off, attendee screens show no results.

Use a response threshold to avoid drawing conclusions from one early answer:

session:
  minimum_public_responses: 5

The presenter still sees the actual counts below the threshold.

Correct answers

Adding correct creates a reveal step for supported question types. It does not create points, a score, or a leaderboard. The exported attendee bundle does not contain the answer key; the presenter publishes it only during the reveal phase.

Text moderation

Free-text and word-cloud responses are private when submitted. In the presenter moderation drawer, approve entries that may appear publicly and hide anything unsuitable.

Approval applies to the exact text reviewed. Editing an approved response returns it to moderation. Older saved approvals that contain only participant IDs must be approved again after upgrading.

Moderation decisions are stored separately from raw responses. The public aggregate contains only approved text. Attendee clients cannot read the raw response collection or moderation records.

For sensitive topics, set attendee_visibility: never and discuss selected responses verbally. The supplied Firestore rules restrict aggregate reads to attendees who answered the current question, after voting closes, and only when its visibility setting permits results. Deploy the updated rules along with the regenerated attendee site to enforce this policy.

Interpreting counts

The participant count represents anonymous authenticated browser profiles that joined the room. It is not an attendance register. The answer count is the number of response documents for the active question.

An attendee who reloads in the same browser profile keeps the same anonymous Firebase identity. Clearing site data, using another browser, or using another device creates another identity.