# Timer Delay after voting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/timer-delay-after-voting/330311
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** topic-voting
**Created:** [October 10, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timer-delay-after-voting/330311 "2024-10-10T20:47:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Mayur](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mayur/32/286859_2.png) [@Mayur](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mayur)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timer-delay-after-voting/330311/1 "2024-10-10T20:47:11Z")

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Would love suggest an improvement to this: **Cooldown timer after each vote**.

I’m working with someone that has this voting plugin. Would love to put a timer delay after someone votes - 5 mins. This will reduce voting abuse.

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timer-delay-after-voting/330311/2 "2025-12-02T13:11:15Z")

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Voting abuse how? Can you elaborate on the perceived problem?