# Discourse Topic Voting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-topic-voting/40121
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** official, topic-voting, included-in-core
**Created:** [February 24, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-topic-voting/40121 "2016-02-24T20:59:09Z")
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### Author: ![ToddZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/toddz/32/328350_2.png) [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-topic-voting/40121/313 "2026-01-09T02:07:01Z")

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> [@unknown\_error](#):
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> …automatically have the topic’s creator cast the first vote for their post?

That sounds handy in your case – but a topic creator may not _always_ want to vote for that topic. A comment I made elsewhere:

> [@Self voting on topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-voting-on-topics/127280/7):
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> When votes are a limited commodity it seems appropriate to let the topic author decide whether to spend one of their own votes on their own topic. A staff member might, for instance, post a feature suggestion that they don’t personally care about, just to gauge community interest.

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