# Discourse Post Voting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** official, post-voting, included-in-core
**Created:** [May 23, 2022, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808 "2022-05-23T07:55:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/153 "2025-07-17T17:12:19Z")
Hi, when editing a post which is in a topic\_voting mode, the Save button does not display Save or Publish, but Reply. (well in French it says “Répondre”), which I guess is incorrect since when I edit a post, I do not reply to it, I modify it.
My first thought was to correct the label js.post\_voting.topic.answer.label and write "Save, (in French “Enregistrer)” instead, but this modified translation to my surprise modified also the standard “Reply” to a post button to “Save”.
There is something to look at here, thanks.
**To sum up, when I Edit a post in the post\_voting mode, I cannot find a way for the Save button to display. It displays Reply instead.**
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/154 "2025-07-18T17:49:10Z")
Hi, can the default active button be “Activity” and not “Votes” because “Votes” breaks the chronological order? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/155 "2025-07-19T18:31:27Z")
> [@patrickemin](#):
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> Hi, also is it possible to activate posts voting for topics that have **already** been published ? Thanks
There isn’t currently a way in the UI (though plenty of requests for it if you want to add your voice/vote 🙂 [Add the option to change a topic to Post Voting format by admin/staff](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-the-option-to-change-a-post-to-qa-format-by-admin-staff/235249))
> **I believe it is possible using the rails console...**
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> I think you need to change the topics.subtype to ‘question\_answer’, though I haven’t given it a runthrough recently to double check if that’s all that’s needed, so you may need to test first.
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> Possibly also changing all the posts types so they’re not considered ‘replies’ may also be part of it. 🤔 Post Voting topics don’t like ‘replies’ so that may necessary too.
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/156 "2025-07-24T17:13:00Z")
> [@patrickemin](#):
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> Hi, can the default active button be “Activity” and not “Votes” because “Votes” breaks the chronological order? Thanks.
Someone about this remark ? It’s quite disturbing for users not to see replies in chronological order by default, thanks.
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### Author:  [@David\_Ghost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/David_Ghost)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/157 "2025-07-25T18:04:39Z")
It would be nice to show avatars in the comments section, or at least a setting
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/158 "2025-07-25T18:45:15Z")
The design of this plugin is to upvote the so to speak best answer.
The main replies can be viewed by activity(in order) or by number of votes.
Now if you mean the mini comments? Not sure if there is a direct option. But these mini comments are supposed to be replies to the master comment/post. Vs replies to one another
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/159 "2025-07-25T18:48:37Z")
Hi, I was referring to the answers, they are sorted by default by votes, a sort order that is not natural for forums (all forums) users, that are accustomed to chronological order. Either the default should be the chronological order or an admin setting would allow to set it by chronological order (suggestion)
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/160 "2025-07-25T19:02:40Z")
Ok yeah an option to choose default order. But this actually mimics how Reddit does comments
The original idea was a question & answer. Where the upvoted answer would be in theory the best answer by community vote.
I would suggest creating a #Contribute > Feature request topic. For flexibility of choice this is a great idea.
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/161 "2025-07-25T19:29:39Z")
Just noticed another weird thing (is it by design)? I cannot reply to a reply, I get an error saying “You cannot reply to a reply”… Is it that only small comments are allowed ? The reply icon is invisible and if I try to quote a reply to reply to it, I get this error. 🤨
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/162 "2025-07-25T22:45:44Z")
I believe by design. As each main reply is meant to be directed towards the Op Post.
The original intent on d sign was for a question & Answer category. In these topics people vote on replies to the Op with the idea the one with the most votes is the recommended answer.
Vs the Solved Plugin which allows the Op & Staff choose a reply as the Answer.
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/163 "2025-07-25T22:47:48Z")
Ok, if I am not mistaken this prevents from quoting text we would like to reply to, but I understand it is by design.
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/164 "2025-07-25T23:42:15Z")
I think the Journal plugin may have more flexibility but without the voting feature.
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/165 "2025-08-16T20:12:46Z")
Hi, it seems that once you clicked on the Activity button, it is no longer possible to get back to the Votes mode ?
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/166 "2025-08-30T14:25:56Z")
Two more problems with this plugin:
1. When a thread has only one post, that is the OP, the whispers can be created, but cannot be seen. Not only that but they cannot be modified or deleted (even though they are listed in your activity personnal tab)
2. When a thread has replies, by default the VOTES button is enabled, which prevents whispers to be displayed. Users must know they have to click on the ACTIVITY button to display the whispers, which is not obvious.
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/167 "2025-09-02T07:55:05Z")
3 posts were split to a new topic: [Can site visitors vote on a poll if they do not have an account](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-site-visitors-vote-on-a-poll-if-they-do-not-have-an-account/381244)
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Williamson\_Pareto](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Williamson_Pareto)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/168 "2025-10-28T00:15:14Z")
Is it possible to update existing posts to be in ‘post voting mode’?
Also - is it possible to see the vote count from the list of topics in the category?
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/169 "2025-10-28T00:52:17Z")
> [@Andrew\_Williamson\_Pareto](#):
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> Is it possible to update existing posts to be in ‘post voting mode’?
There is a #Contribute > Feature request for that: [Add the option to change a topic to Post Voting format by admin/staff](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-the-option-to-change-a-topic-to-post-voting-format-by-admin-staff/235249)
> [@Andrew\_Williamson\_Pareto](#):
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> is it possible to see the vote count from the list of topics in the category?
Which vote count? There is a request to [Show OP votes in topic list](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-op-votes-in-topic-list/291969). Also, the #topic-voting plugin supports showing votes on the topic list.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Williamson\_Pareto](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Williamson_Pareto)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/170 "2025-10-28T01:41:54Z")
Thanks for the reply!
Post voting specifically, not topic voting. I’d like to use this as a sort of feature request voting tool 🙂
Understand there’s visibility on the topic voting, but I definitely prefer the interactions with the Post Voting plugin!
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/171 "2025-10-31T15:28:42Z")
I’m evaluating this plugin to do a reddit-style AMA. Three questions jumped out at me as soon as I installed it:
- Is there no way to limit who can start a topic with post voting enabled, by group or trust level? (appears not)
- Can I remove the voting from the first post? (looks like it could be done using CSS)
- What happens to a post voting topic if the plugin is disabled again? (appears the topic goes flat again and nested comments turn into regular replies in the timeline, and voting disappears)
Has anyone got good examples to share of this plugin being used successfully for an AMA? Would be interested to see it!
Edit: some more things I noticed:
- replies to the OP get far more prominence than the comments on the first reply. this is nice for some cases but not so much for an AMA where it’s the answer by the famous person that everyone is most interested in reading. On reddit, for instance, the OP gets a highlighted color.
- the comments are more limited than the replies. so for instance if the person answering wants to share a photo or onebox, they can’t do that.
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### Author:  [@mdict\_free](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mdict_free)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2026, 11:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/172 "2026-01-12T11:44:10Z")
Thanks for the plugin. It is really helpful!
I recently discovered that it is not possible to search **comments** within replies to topics under the post-voting plugin. I can search replies without issue. Is this behavior intentional or is it a bug? Thanks!
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