Discourse Topic Voting

Plugin
, ,
305

I really enjoy this plugin - thank you to the developers who work on it, its a big boon to my Discourse community.

I’m curious about users gaining votes after using all their votes. I have increased the caps for user votes a few times because some of our most engaged community members vote on a lot of topics. I was wondering if votes could be re-generated for a given user over time up to a cap, or if there was another way to reward users with additional votes. It seems like the main mechanism for granting votes is a static number for an entire trust level, but I might be missing something.

Thanks!

2 Likes
306

Hey nivshah :waving_hand:

If I’d have to hazard a guess, the reason you can limit votes is so that your members use them wisely and don’t vote for everything else it kind of devalues a vote.

At the moment one way users can get their vote back is by closing the topic. Let’s say you decided to implement a voted feature into a game for example, you can close the topic and this will refund users that vote if you will and they will be able to use it on another topic.

4 Likes
307

Closing a topic is exactly what I needed here. Thank you.

2 Likes
308

:partying_face: This plugin is now bundled with Discourse core as part of Bundling more popular plugins with Discourse core. If you are self-hosting and use the plugin, you need to remove it from your app.yml before your next upgrade.

2 Likes
309

I might have missed this, but is it possible to change your vote once you’ve submitted it? Say a user accidentally votes for the wrong topic, or changes their mind - are they stuck w/ their mistake?

310

They are apparently able to be liked now according to this topic on a forum I am in: Suggestion Topics can be liked now - Not Terraria Related - Dark Gaming

I’m not sure this is intended but I just wanted you to know

311

I think it’s because the reaction plugin is enabled. The code from the topic voting plugin that hides the like button doesn’t hide the reaction button.

You’d need CSS that hides the reaction button and existing reactions. Something like

.topic-post.voting-post {
  .discourse-reactions-actions,
  .discourse-reactions-actions-button-shim {
    display: none;
  }
}
2 Likes