Dagelijkse limietmodus voor Voting Plugin

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Continuing the discussion from Discourse Voting:

Currently, the Voting plugin works on an “allocate your requests” model. That is, you have a limited number of votes which you can move around.

There are use cases for this, like a Feature Suggestions category where you want to make users consider what they really care about the most. Like, if that were available here, I would definitely use it to weight all of these various suggestions and wishes I’m full of. :slight_smile:

There are other cases, like a question and answer forum, where it’d be nice to have a model more like Stack Exchange: give users a certain number of votes per day (per trust level), but have no overall limit.

I know one can use Likes for this, but 1) they’re less obvious, 2) there’s not a "Most Liked’ topic list view (is there?), 3) they’re not as obvious, and 4) most of the reasons for having separate voting from the origin of the feature.

I am currently just giving 1,000,000 votes to higher TL users. That’s fine, but feels… inelegant.

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Yes! It would be really useful if you could get more votes within a specific time period - we have a community for a software product, so it might make sense to have a certain number of votes per month.

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I knew someone surely had the same question :slight_smile:

One of our users pointed it out as well and I was a bit surprised that this is how it works.

Having it as a monthly limit makes so much more sense.

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We actually do have voting enabled now in this category, so a ping to everyone who still wants this feature to cast their votes :slight_smile:

Ive merged into another feature request below, that was asking the same thing.

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Currently on Replit Ask many TL3s are running out of votes and since the team can only work so fast they are not getting more votes anywhere near quick enough. So we would like a setting to make it so the number of votes users have is on a rolling 24-hour period just like edits, likes etc.

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That’s precisely why there is a vote limit :smile:

The idea is that people are conscious about the votes scarcity and will spend those wisely. If a higher priority item shows up, they will need to remove a vote from a lower priority item to spend it on the new high priority one.

Adding more votes every day would effectively turn it limit-less and dilute the signal of votes, making it worthless as an information source for projects. And you can also accomplish the same end-goal by increasing voting_tl3_vote_limit proportionally to your desired backlog size.

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That is very true. Though we dont want to increase the amounts too much to prevent spam voting and not keeping the backlog low. Since the team is currently focusing on bug reports it seems likes these topics are not being closed often

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