# About topic still counts towards total votes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-topic-still-counts-towards-total-votes/59033
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** topic-voting
**Created:** [3월 13, 2017, 10:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-topic-still-counts-towards-total-votes/59033 "2017-03-13T22:18:52Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [3월 13, 2017, 10:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-topic-still-counts-towards-total-votes/59033/1 "2017-03-13T22:18:52Z")

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Happy to see that the About topic can no longer be voted on, but it appears the vote that I applied to prior to this change still remains, and so the About topic is counting towards my total number of votes.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 13, 2017, 10:46오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-topic-still-counts-towards-total-votes/59033/2 "2017-03-13T22:46:17Z")

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Probably that’s a data consistency error specific to this site now, as the plugin was in beta, etc?

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [3월 13, 2017, 10:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-topic-still-counts-towards-total-votes/59033/3 "2017-03-13T22:47:35Z")

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Yep. Unlikely to affect future sites. Still a tiny annoyance here though.

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [3월 29, 2017, 12:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-topic-still-counts-towards-total-votes/59033/4 "2017-03-29T12:11:25Z")

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I think this is fixed now?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3월 29, 2017, 12:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-topic-still-counts-towards-total-votes/59033/5 "2017-03-29T12:12:53Z")

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Yeah I special cased it so the voting widget is absent there.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3월 29, 2017, 12:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-topic-still-counts-towards-total-votes/59033/6 "2017-03-29T12:12:57Z")

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