# Plugin: Feature voting separated from Likes **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-feature-voting-separated-from-likes/38772 **Category:** Feature **Tags:** rfc, spec **Created:** [30.Январь.2016 15:34:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-feature-voting-separated-from-likes/38772 "2016-01-30T15:34:45Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 40
### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh) #### Post date: [09.Апрель.2016 12:09:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-feature-voting-separated-from-likes/38772/40 "2016-04-09T12:09:40Z")
> [@joebuhlig](#): > > Would you revoke the regular vote when a super vote is added? My thinking is that the normal vote would remain. The “super vote” isn’t an _extra_ vote, it’s just a normal vote that got promoted to **super**. As far as showing this in the interface goes I haven’t tackled that bit yet, but I was thinking it could be something similar to what we do in the standard topic index with Like ratios, i.e. a topic with a high likes-to-replies ratio will show a red replies count. > [@joebuhlig](#): > > My assumption is that we would add another section on the user profile that shows a list of your active super votes like we’re doing for regular votes right now. That way you can find your votes easier. Or would we consolidate them into one list and simply put an indicator on them? I would lean towards the latter. I think the latter sounds best. If possible it’d be nice to have a simple “Only show super likes” toggle, but that’d just be a bonus. > [@joebuhlig](#): > > The defaults I’m thinking would be 3 super votes with the value of each being 10 regular votes. Is that fair? So, as i alluded to when answering #1, I don’t think super votes should add _more_ votes. This wouldn’t be quite like UserVoice. The closest real-life version of this I can think of is actually Tinder. So, if you’re at all familiar with how it works (you know, like, you have a friend who uses it or, like, whatever), you can _Like_ someone and you can _Super Like_ someone. A Super Like is just a Like with some additional perks. And while you can dish out a whole bunch of Likes every day, Super Likes are very limited. I think it’s 1 per day. So when you get Super Liked, it’s pretty exciting, because “ooh, this person used their oh-so-precious Super Like on _me_? I’m intrigued”. And you’re counting on that same effect if you’re sending someone else a Super Like. I want to replicate a similar effect with Super Votes. And I also think it’s a cleaner separation of data. You get to easily count: - Number of voices - Number of passionate voices In default UserVoice, you can give an idea 1, 2, or 3 votes. I don’t think I’ve ever given an idea 2 votes. I give my 3s to my top priorities, and then I spread some 1s around mostly just to keep track of some other Nice-To-Haves. That’s one extra thing I didn’t want to have to figure out for myself. And if there are people out there using their 2s, how in the world am I supposed to interpret that? In my world, “medium priority” is the same as “low priority” because they both get trumped by “high priority” every single time. Lastly, if a UV idea has 900 votes, that means somewhere between 300-900 users voted on that idea. I’d much rather see up front how exactly many people could be bothered to +1 this idea. Then, layered on top of that, tell me _how many of these users consider this a top priority_. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-feature-voting-separated-from-likes/38772)._