# Downvoting - topics and posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/downvoting-topics-and-posts/158589>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** topic-voting\
**Created:** [July 23, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/downvoting-topics-and-posts/158589 "2020-07-23T08:11:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![dandv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dandv/32/169779_2.png) [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/downvoting-topics-and-posts/158589/1 "2020-07-23T08:11:57Z")

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I’m looking for a plugin to enable up/down voting of topics, similar to SO answers, and have just discovered this one. Apparently there’s no downvoting?

I’ve trued to educate myself about the [reasons for not implementing downvoting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upvote-and-downvote-feature/17748/5), but those topics [were deleted](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disappeared-topic-emails-suddenly-stopped-being-sent-109077/157208/6).

**Regardless of the reasons discussed so far** , it can be imagined that _some communities would prefer both upvoting and downvoting_, both for topics and posts. Reddit shows that feature is widely used.

How can downvoting be dome at the moment in Discourse?

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