# Convert existing votes to likes?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/convert-existing-votes-to-likes/193513>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 11, 2021, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/convert-existing-votes-to-likes/193513 "2021-06-11T10:24:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![KatA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kata/32/223874_2.png) [@KatA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KatA)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/convert-existing-votes-to-likes/193513/1 "2021-06-11T10:24:29Z")

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Our little forum ended up launching while I was away on unplanned leave and due to, let’s say, a _miscommunication_, voting was enabled on multiple categories (such as General Discussion) at launch.

Having returned from leave to find voting in places where there should not be voting, I would like to fix this. We have one category where the voting plugin is very important to our use case, and now we have topics in other categories that can’t be shown any love without taking up users’ limited votes.

However we are a niche community and I’d rather not damage users’ sense of engagement by suddenly wiping all the votes on their topics and leaving them with zero likes. Is there a way to convert existing topic votes to likes when removing voting from a category?

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