Discourse Topic Voting

[ToddZ]

@unknown_error

…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

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.