Is is possible to have the originator of a votable topic automatically have their vote for the topic register when the topic is approved by the moderators?
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The discussion revolves around the possibility of automatically voting for a topic when it is approved by moderators, with the originator of the topic receiving an automatic vote. Loki initially proposes the idea but acknowledges Falco’s concern about users exhausting their votes. Loki then considers adding a reminder instead. Moin notes that a theme component already exists to enable auto-voting for the topic creator. mcwumbly adds that while auto-voting could be blocked if no votes remain, the topic itself could still be created.
That would mean users won’t be able to create new topics if they have already spent all their votes too.
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Ah, good point. We don’t limit user votes, so that hadn’t occurred to me.
I will instead look into putting a bold-text reminder in the message they get when their topic is approved.
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There is now a theme component that adds auto voting on own topics as a feature:
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Rather than block creating topics, I could imagine the logic being that the topic is still created, but the vote is not auto-cast if there are no votes left.
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