# Moving topics with votes to non-voting category doesn't release votes

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-topics-with-votes-to-non-voting-category-doesnt-release-votes/184667>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** topic-voting, needs-repro\
**Created:** [March 26, 2021, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-topics-with-votes-to-non-voting-category-doesnt-release-votes/184667 "2021-03-26T12:20:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-topics-with-votes-to-non-voting-category-doesnt-release-votes/184667/2 "2021-03-26T23:54:27Z")

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> [@Karthikk\_Vijay](#):
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> It appears that when a topic with votes is moved to another category, where voting is not enabled, the votes are not being returned to the owners. Is this a bug or an intended behaviour?

I’ve just tested this on my local development site and can confirm that votes are not being returned to the user when a topic is moved to a category that does not allow for votes. This doesn’t seem ideal to me, but I’m not sure if it’s the intended behaviour or not. The only alternative I can think of is that if a topic is moved to a category that does not allow voting, all votes should be removed from the topic. There would be potential issues with this approach as well.

> [@Karthikk\_Vijay](#):
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> there are edge cases where closing a topic doesn’t automatically return the votes to the user.

If you know of any specific ways of reproducing the edge cases, let us know. I can look into this some more next week.

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