# Auto-vote on Topic Posting

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-vote-on-topic-posting/109366>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** topic-voting\
**Created:** [February 17, 2019, 8:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-vote-on-topic-posting/109366 "2019-02-17T08:24:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-vote-on-topic-posting/109366/4 "2019-05-02T16:18:07Z")

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I wonder if it’s a psychology trick? Are people more likely to visit/vote for a topic if it already has 1 vote rather than no votes?

Because, ultimately, auto-vote on your own topic is not really changing anything in the overall votes count. Either everything starts at 0 or 1.

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