# Managing "Voting" Roadmap Features
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-voting-roadmap-features/111232
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [March 11, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-voting-roadmap-features/111232 "2019-03-11T00:57:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mtan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mtan)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-voting-roadmap-features/111232/1 "2019-03-11T00:57:09Z")
When you have a “Voting” feature in your forum and you deliver the feature:
- How do you handle the topic, do you archive, close, move to a new category?
- How do you manage follow-up requests?
- How do you preserve the votes and conversation?
Example, we will soon release this: [Simultaneous Streaming (Multi-camera viewing) - #66 by andrew\_nyr - Wishes Granted - Wyze Forum](https://forums.wyzecam.com/t/simultaneous-streaming-multi-camera-viewing/6695/66) and it’s currently listed along with other requests that we haven’t worked on yet.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-voting-roadmap-features/111232/2 "2019-03-11T03:35:01Z")
Depending on your community and their expectations I think I’d close the topic ([as we do](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-approval-not-in-staff-log/110827)) and then if a feedback topic is started, link to it from the closed feature topic.
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### Author:  [@mtan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mtan)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 3:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-voting-roadmap-features/111232/3 "2019-03-11T03:48:20Z")
You retain it on the same category? How do we segregate it from other requests that are still open. Can we disable the votes after we close it but keep the voting open for others?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-voting-roadmap-features/111232/4 "2019-03-11T03:51:53Z")
The topic closed icon should signify that. You could use tags as well to make it more obvious. Closing the topic will return the votes for that topic but it won’t affect voting on other topics.
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### Author:  [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2019, 7:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-voting-roadmap-features/111232/5 "2019-03-26T07:36:33Z")
Here’s how we use it over on the forum I administer for the company I work for:
> [@How are you using your Voting category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-are-you-using-your-voting-category/61737/2):
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> The process that I’m using is based around tags and closing the topics. All suggestions are in a suggestions category, and can be voted on there. When we’re planning to do something, I apply the “planned” tag; when it’s underway, I apply the “underway” tag, and when it’s complete, I apply the “complete” tag. Once an item has been completed, I additionally set the topic to automatically close two weeks later, so that people get their votes back. To accommodate feedback on completed it…