Polls

A graph displaying the voter participation in each poll.

Polls are in-game votes in which players are asked to express their preferences for certain changes within Old School RuneScape. Only members with a total level of 300 or above and with a minimum total play-time of 25 hours can participate.

When a poll is live, players who log in and have not cast their votes will receive a message in the chatbox stating There's a poll running - head to the community section of the account management menu to cast your vote!. Poll booths will also have a small raised flag to indicate that the player has not yet voted, and the Account Management Community tab will indicate that a poll is active, letting players vote from the tab.

Originally, polls were only held on the official Old School RuneScape website. Following the results of the Old School in-game poll survey, it was decided to add in-game poll booths. Players can no longer vote on the official website.

Polls on game updates use a plurality voting system to determine their outcome. Any question containing a Yes option requires a supermajority of 70% of the total votes to pass. This is not counting Skip question votes, an option introduced following the results of the Quality of Life - Top 10 Skilling Suggestions poll.

Example of a running poll in a poll booth.

Example of running poll questions prior to the integrity update that hid active poll results. Passing questions were coloured green; failing questions were uncoloured.

Placed votes cannot be changed, and every question must be answered to vote. A running tally could previously be found during polls at poll booths or on the official website. These and other aspects related to polling itself have also been subject of polls, but have historically failed to pass. Beginning 12 April 2019, all poll results are now hidden before the poll ends as part of a game integrity update.

List of polls

2023

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
222	Bounty Hunter Rewards Poll	25 April	2 May	17	38,534
221	Skill Pitches Poll	4 April	11 April	2	178,951
220	Old School Content Poll #79: Quality of Life	27 March	3 April	22	125,179
219	The Ruinous Powers: Community Consultation	8 March	15 March	19	47,326
218	Forestry: The Way of the Forester - Gameplay & Rewards	1 March	8 March	18	92,315
217	Desert Treasure II Rewards: Community Consultation	17 February	24 February	10	91,922
216	New Skill: Community Consultation and Poll 78	23 January	30 January	29	138,342

2022

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
215	2023 Releases	20 December	3 January	5	176,855
214	New Skill	10 December	16 December	1	191,172
213	Phantom Boss Rewards	23 November	29 November	10	39,137
212	Future Quests & Combat Achievement Rewards	2 November	9 November	15	56,079
211	Old School Content Poll #77: Quality of Life	21 October	27 October	15	45,435
210	Wilderness Boss Rework rewards	10 October	17 October	11	44,007
209	Quest Speedrunning	7 September	13 September	6	36,821
208	Tombs of Amascut Login Screen	1 August	5 August	1	32,706
207	Tombs of Amascut Masori Armour	27 July	29 July	1	29,458
206	PvP Arena Rewards v2	6 June	13 June	17	25,744
205	Tombs of Amascut Reward Changes	23 May	30 May	4	33,034
204	Giants' Foundry	12 May	18 May	9	39,448
203	Rewards for Beneath Cursed Sands & PvP Arena	22 April	27 April	12	41,471
202	Tombs of Amascut Rewards	10 March	16 March	8	25,459
201	Old School Content Poll #76: Game Improvements	17 February	22 February	27	43,592
200	Guardians of the Rift	2 February	8 February	14	48,547
199	Tombs of Amascut, Quests & GIM Improvements	6 January	13 January	10	55,760

2021

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
198	Nex and Old School's Economy Poll	15 November	22 November	11	57,012
197	Leagues III - Shattered Relics Rewards	7 October	13 October	6	41,000
196	Group Ironman	15 September	22 September	2	141,510
195	Mini Poll - Miscellaneous Improvements	22 July	28 July	7	38,800
194	Equipment Rebalance: Ranged Meta	15 June	21 June	10	39,603
193	A Kingdom Divided Login Screen	28 May	1 June	1	28,431
192	Phosani's Nightmare Poll	12 May	17 May	12	28,023
191	A Night At The Theatre and Old School Content Poll #75: PvM	30 April	6 May	52	45,155
190	Design A Hat Art Competition - Finalists	31 March	6 April	1	49,666
189	Clan Hall Theme	19 March	24 March	1	45,001
188	Shooting Stars	26 February	3 March	8	42,866
187	Below Ice Mountain	19 February	23 February	10	38,234
186	Old School Content Poll #74: Collection Log & Game Improvements	20 January	26 January	29	45,387
185	Bloodbark Armour	8 January	12 January	1	41,500

2020

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
184	A Kingdom Divided	17 December	23 December	22	31,359
183	Tempoross & Trawler	9 December	14 December	25	43,062
182	Combat Achievements	27 November	2 December	16	61,564
181	Twisted Tales - Getting Ahead	30 October	5 November	1	65,892
180	Soul Wars and Minigames	9 October	15 October	27	51,385
179	Old School Content Poll #73: The :Joy: of Polls	23 September	28 September	23	48,065
178	Leagues II - Trailblazer Rewards	8 September	14 September	8	42,186
177	A Porcine of Interest	21 August	27 August	2	64,214
176	Construction Contracts	10 August	17 August	7	71,935
175	Old School Content Poll #72: Costume Rooms & Skilling	31 July	6 August	27	72,621
174	Darkmeyer Login Screen	26 May	29 May	1	48,292
173	Old School Content Poll #71: Gauntlet, Grotesques, CoX and more	6 May	12 May	40	69,300
172	Old School Content Poll #70: Game Improvements	17 March	23 March	39	51,989
171	Darkmeyer	4 March	10 March	11	58,782
170	Death Mechanics in Old School	26 February	2 March	2	73,750

2019

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
169	The Nightmare of Ashihama	6 December	11 December	8	45,601
168	Old School Content Poll #69: Game Improvements	20 November	25 November	38	42,820
167	Rune Pouch, Looting Bag & Abyssal Sire	25 October	31 October	6	36,978
166	Twisted League Rewards	18 October	24 October	7	31,832
165	Bounty Hunter Rework rewards	27 September	3 October	17	39,121
164	Last Man Standing: More Rewards	9 September	13 September	15	27,850
163	The Fremennik Exiles	30 August	6 September	5	55,370
162	Last Man Standing Rewards Poll Blog	16 August	21 August	14	27,505
161	Crystal kit charges, Elves and the Iorwerth Dungeon	9 August	13 August	6	34,653
160	Prifddinas Agility & Elena	30 July	31 July	2	26,468
159	Warding Skill	19 July	24 July	23	125,147
158	Song of the Elves Login Screen	16 July	18 July	1	35,403
157	Old School Content Poll #68: Small Game Improvements	12 July	15 July	17	35,695
156	Partnerships and Old School	3 July	5 July	23	62,377
155	The Forthos Dungeon	17 June	24 June	11	58,690
154	State of PvP Poll	24 May	28 May	5	45,590
153	Song of the Elves rewards	17 May	22 May	18	52,447
152	Old School Content Poll #67: Small Old Content Changes	12 April	16 April	21	56,321
151	Old School Content Poll #66: Hosidius Rework and QoL Changes	15 March	19 March	8	37,500
150	Old School Content Poll #65: Treasure Trails Expansion	8 March	11 March	13	45,700
149	Old School Content Poll #64: Song of the Elves	26 February	1 March	12	41,552
148	Quality of Life - Miscellaneous 2019	22 February	26 February	20	50,965
147	Quality of Life - Mostly Re-runs 2019	15 February	19 February	10	84,334
146	Quality of Life - Skilling Suggestions 2019	8 February	11 February	14	48,602
145	Quality of Life - Combat Suggestions 2019	31 January	4 February	11	62,760
144	Old School Content Poll #63: Kebos - Post Launch Changes	22 January	25 January	17	68,837

2018

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
143	Old School Content Poll #62.5: Spellbook filter again	22 November	28 November	2	68,740
142	Old School Content Poll #62: Birdhouses and Spellbook filter	15 November	21 November	3	70,339
141	Old School Content Poll #61: QoL and Content Poll	8 November	15 November	6	82,699
140	The Kebos Lowlands	12 October	19 October	44	53,099
139	Master Clue reward item: Round 2	21 September	24 September	1	25,856
138	Master Clue reward item: Round 1	18 September	20 September	1	23,001
137	Old School Content Poll #60: Portal Nexus and More!	13 September	17 September	16	35,925
136	Holiday Events Opinion Poll	30 August	3 September	6	40,648
135	My Arm's extra reward	22 August	27 August	1	34,821
134	Raise your hands for My Arm?	15 August	20 August	28	41,516
133	Old School Content Poll #59: Popular requests	26 July	30 July	4	43,170
132	Revenant Cave Rewards: Revisited & Content Changes Poll	2 July	6 July	27	41,923
131	Theatre of Blood Login Screen	1 June	4 June	1	26,174
130	Justiciar armour	24 May	28 May	1	37,688
129	Bryophyta, the Moss Giant Boss	25 April	30 April	7	27,253
128	Chambers of Xeric: Challenge Mode	19 April	25 April	3	30,292
127	Old School Content Poll #58: More QoL and a Quest	28 March	3 April	20	29,355
126	Theatre of Blood	20 March	26 March	15	40,641
125	Quality of Life - Minigames/Other Suggestions 2018	21 February	26 February	19	22,000
124	Quality of Life - PvP Suggestions 2018	14 February	19 February	15	32,308
123	Quality of Life - Skilling Suggestions 2018	7 February	12 February	34	25,023
122	Quality of Life - PvM Suggestions 2018	31 January	5 February	33	39,577
121	Vorkath's rewards and the Dragon Hunter Crossbow	16 January	22 January	13	47,001

2017

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
120	Mythical Cape	30 November	7 December	1	34,895
119	Fossil Island Improvements	23 November	29 November	9	24,020
118	Wilderness Rejuvenation II: Revenant Caves	14 November	20 November	7	37,931
117	Wilderness Rejuvenation II	2 November	8 November	21	39,668
116	Old School Content Poll #57: Quests, Buffs & QoL	19 October	25 October	25	36,213
115	Dragon Slayer II	28 September	4 October	39	38,324
114	Fossil Island Login Screen & Make-All	5 September	6 September	2	19,872
113	Fossil Island: Sulliuscep Mushrooms	24 August	28 August	2	27,150
112	Old School Content Poll #56: Quality of Life	3 August	9 August	24	33,012
111	Old School Content Poll #55: Grotesque Guardians, etc.	24 July	31 July	10	39,069
110	Old School Content Poll #54: Binding spells, F2P Castle Wars, etc.	7 July	13 July	30	42,362
109	Old School Content Poll #53: Guilds & Make-All	15 June	21 June	15	50,522
108	Old School Content Poll #52: World Map	3 May	9 May	21	42,157
107	Fossil Island	20 April	26 April	11	40,629
106	Old School Content Poll #51: Slayer & Dungeons	4 April	10 April	25	44,523
105	Mor Ul Rek and The Inferno	24 March	30 March	5	46,801
104	Quality of Life - General Suggestions	24 February	2 March	20	35,518
103	Quality of Life - PvP-related Suggestions	17 February	23 February	13	33,577
102	Quality of Life - Ten Skilling Suggestions	10 February	16 February	11	49,881
101	Quality of Life - Ten PvM Suggestions	4 February	9 February	11	39,418
100	Old School Polls	31 January	4 February	5	42,229
99	Old School Content Poll #50: Models, Anims and More	19 January	25 January	26	50,600

2016

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
98	Old School Content Poll #49: Silver Jewellery	10 November	16 November	24	34,545
97	More Raids Rewards	3 November	9 November	11	57,178
96	Hardcore Ironman Mode	20 October	26 October	1	34,925
95	Old School Raids Armours Survey	13 October	19 October	9	28,333
94	Old School Content Poll #48: Rewards for Raids & Quality of Life	7 October	12 October	15	28,692
93	The Ourania Altar	22 September	28 September	2	35,258
92	Old School Content Poll #47: Rewards for Raids & Slayer	8 September	14 September	32	34,227
91	Golden Gnomes 2016	30 August	5 September	2	45,900
90	Old School Content Poll #46: Wintertodt Rewards & Superior Slayer	11 August	17 August	38	32,403
89	Old School Priority Poll #5	26 July	1 August	22	42,060
88	Old School Content Poll #45: Skilling Pets & Quality of Life	21 July	25 July	26	34,363
87	Old School Content Poll #44: PvP & Player-owned houses	20 June	27 June	31	51,888
86	Last Man Standing - PvP Minigame	26 May	1 June	1	42,000
85	Old School Content Poll #43: Great Kourend Content	13 May	18 May	17	36,152
84	Old School Content Poll #42: Clue Scrolls Expansion	14 April	20 April	10	36,045
83	Old School Content Poll #41: Bank placeholders & Skillcapes	31 March	6 April	27	37,173
82	Old School Content Poll #40: Vanilla LootShare & QoL	7 March	14 March	13	41,555
81	Old School Content Poll #39: Monkey Madness II	25 February	2 March	4	45,059
80	Quality of Life - Top 10 General Suggestions	18 February	22 February	10	29,139
79	Quality of Life - Top 10 PvP Suggestions	11 February	15 February	12	34,348
78	Quality of Life - Top 10 PvM Suggestions	4 February	8 February	10	34,785
77	Quality of Life - Top 10 Skilling Suggestions	28 January	1 February	11	32,182
76	Old School Content Poll #38: Jad II, Deadman & Zeah	14 January	20 January	31	49,936

2015

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
75	Christmas 2015	3 December	9 December	1	33,447
74	Blood & Soul Runecrafting	12 November	18 November	2	32,441
73	Deadman and Ditch	2 November	4 November	6	22,338
72	Old School Content Poll #37: Skillcape Perks	22 October	28 October	18	33,833
71	Abyssal buff	15 October	21 October	2	41,012
70	Old School Halloween 2015	24 September	30 September	2	31,501
69	Old School Content Poll #36: Skilling Pets	17 September	23 September	26	35,287
68	Sailing Skill	10 September	16 September	1	73,796
67	Old School Content Poll #35: The Max Cape	30 July	5 August	29	36,881
66	Deadman Mode - Survival PvP	9 July	15 July	1	41,640
65	Old School Priority Poll #4	25 June	1 July	15	31,597
64	Old School Content Poll #34: XP droplets & Slayer	18 June	24 June	37	38,557
63	Old School Content Poll #33	14 May	20 May	24	47,498
62	Old School Content Poll #32: Resizable Mode	16 April	22 April	22	52,170
61	Old School Content Poll #31: Easter Holiday Event	13 March	18 March	13	41,380
60	Instanced Kraken	6 March	11 March	1	49,692
59	Old School Content Poll #30: Near Miss Poll	12 February	19 February	16	37,321
58	Permanent F2P & Membership Bonds	28 January	4 February	1	51,152
57	Old School GE tweaks	22 January	28 January	5	41,963
56	Old School GE location survey	19 January	?	1	36,206
55	Old School Content Poll #29: Grand Exchange	12 January	19 January	18	72,385

2014

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
54	Old School Snake Boss Name Poll	18 December	24 December	1	27,025
53	Old School Achievement Diary Rewards Poll	4 December	10 December	4	17,823
52	Old School Content Poll #28	27 November	3 December	6	20,305
51	Old School Game Integrity Survey	19 November	26 November	5	29,302
50	Old School New Continent, Achievement Diaries and Poll poll	7 November	12 November	8	21,434
49	Old School Content Poll #27	30 October	5 November	24	18,665
48	Old School Poll Survey	24 October	29 October	6	21,700
47	Old School Content Poll #26	9 October	15 October	12	20,435
46	Old School Halloween 2014	3 October	8 October	2	19,881
45	Old School Bounty Hunter Rewards 2	25 September	1 October	10	19,558
44	Old School Content Poll #25	18 September	24 September	20	33,631
43	Old School Bounty Hunter Rewards	8 September	15 September	16	29,829
42	Old School Priority Poll #3	4 September	?	3	26,216
41	Old School feature poll - Content Poll #24	28 August	3 September	20	32,304
40	Old School feature poll - Artisan Skill	21 August	27 August	17	47,001
39	Old School feature poll - Content Poll #23	6 August	13 August	22	19,279
38	Old School in-game poll survey	28 July	4 August	9	12,809
37	Old School feature poll - Artisan and Bounty Hunter	17 July	23 July	2	18,271
36	Old School feature poll - Content Poll #22	9 July	16 July	34	20,257
35	Old School feature poll - Rewarding Rewards	11 June	18 June	21	17,883
34	Old School feature poll #20 (Trading Solution)	28 May	4 June	7	30,002
33	Player Designed Content: New Skill survey	21 May	28 May	1	13,835
32	Old School feature poll #19	7 May	14 May	20	14,612
31	Old School Trading Solution Survey	29 April	5 May	4	19,404
30	Old School feature poll #18	16 April	23 April	22	18,001
29	Old School - Update priorities & new slayer drops	31 March	7 April	7	17,716
28	Old School Wilderness Feedback Poll	19 March	26 March	15	13,484
27	Old School feature poll #17	6 March	12 March	6	11,373
26	Player Designed Content competition - Brains over brawn	27 February	2 March	1	5,333
25	Old School feature poll #16	12 February	19 February	28	22,884
24	Old School feature poll #15: Rejuvenating the Wilderness	22 January	29 January	30	22,617

2013

#	Title	Opened	Closed	Questions	Votes
23	Old School feature poll #14: Minigames	19 December	26 December	34	16,869
22	Content Poll #13: Slayer & Christmas	21 November	27 November	25	20,421
21	Old School: About you!	11 November	17 November	7	13,810
20	Old School feature poll #12: Player-designed content	1 November	6 November	11	11,351
19	Old School player designed content poll	25 October	29 October	1	4,473
18	Old School feature poll #11: PvP Worlds and more	10 October	16 October	13	12,733
17	Kril's Magic Weapon	27 September	4 October	1	5,361
16	Old School feature poll #10: New Rewards	18 September	25 September	23	16,002
15	Old School feature poll #9: God Wars & Banks	3 September	9 September	17	28,080
14	Goblin Invasion - Taking Down the High Priest	20 August	26 August	1	1,470
13	The Big Four Priority Poll	16 August	22 August	2	14,700
12	Old School feature poll #8	8 August	14 August	6	17,336
11	Goblin Invasion - Intelligence Received	29 July	5 August	1	2,067
10	Old School feature poll #7	17 July	24 July	14	17,424
9	Old School feature poll #6 - Castle Wars, etc.	27 June	3 July	6	17,083
8	Old School feature poll #5 – Dom Onion Cave, and more...	6 June	12 June	12	23,014
7	Old School feature poll #4 – May 2013	16 May	22 May	17	27,977
6	Old School rare item poll #3 – May 2013	8 May	14 May	52	33,623
5	Old School feature poll #3 – April 2013	25 April	1 May	8	46,647
4	Old School Rare Item poll #2 – April 2013	17 April	24 April	20	34,758
3	Old School Rare Item poll #1 – April 2013	10 April	17 April	2	64,890
2	Old School feature poll #2 – April 2013	4 April	10 April	9	75,694
1	Old School feature poll #1 – March 2013	14 March	20 March	9	101,407

Changes

Date	Changes
27 October 2022 (update)	The required amount of "yes" votes for a question to pass a poll was changed from 75% to 70% as part of a game integrity update, due to low voting turnout of active players.
12 September 2019 (update)	Mobile The vertical size of the voting buttons on mobile have been increased by 60%.
12 April 2019	All poll results are now hidden before the poll ends as part of a game integrity update.
11 February 2016 (update | poll)	The option to skip questions is now available.
11 September 2014 (update)	Poll results page are now optimized for multiple answer questions.
21 August 2014 (update | poll)	In-game polling booths are now available around Gielinor. Previously, polls could only be accessed through the website.