Two questions about post voting

[LoveMCJ]

HI,

1.Does voting on a topic post, not a reply, have any effect?

2. Is it possible to only enable Toggle Post Voting in Create a new topic? (New Topic is disabled)
   
   

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Hello

@LoveMCJ

1.Does voting on a topic post, not a reply, have any effect?

There’s a discussion about this here:

Voting button appears on opening post

Continuing the discussion from Discourse Post Voting: Since the opening post in Q&A topic is the question itself, it should not have upvoting option.

This reply in particular should answer your question: Voting button appears on opening post - #6 by sam

@LoveMCJ

Is it possible to only enable Toggle Post Voting in Create a new topic? (New Topic is disabled)

You should first enable the New topics default to Post Voting topics in this category. in the category settings:

Then, you can use this CSS to hide the Remove Post Voting option:

.composer-actions li[data-value="togglePostVoting"] {
    display: none;
}

[mbauman (Matt Bauman)]

Given how dramatically this changes the UX of a discourse topic, it does seem a little strange that the original poster has complete control over the toggle. I think it’d make way more sense if it could be top-down mandated more cleanly.

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

I encourage you to open a new feature topic asking for this and explaining the reason for which it should behave as you describe.
It has also been asked in other places, so having a single topic to gather opinions would be