# Two questions about post voting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-questions-about-post-voting/282761
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** post-voting
**Created:** [October 9, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-questions-about-post-voting/282761 "2023-10-09T19:48:06Z")
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### Author: ![LoveMCJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@LoveMCJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LoveMCJ)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-questions-about-post-voting/282761/1 "2023-10-09T19:48:06Z")

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HI,

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

 ![Screenshot 2023-10-10 at 4.42.30 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/5/2/152c35a5d9ab77c21145e4c7d6b78dd8816d5685.png)

1. **Is it possible to only enable Toggle Post Voting in Create a new topic? (New Topic is disabled)**  
 ![Screenshot 2023-10-10 at 4.42.19 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/f/6/cf69ac7ba141089a34598fb7594709d76941efd1.png)

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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-questions-about-post-voting/282761/2 "2023-10-19T09:01:56Z")

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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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/voting-button-appears-on-opening-post/244144):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Discourse Post Voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808/62): 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/voting-button-appears-on-opening-post/244144/6)

> [@LoveMCJ](#):
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> **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:

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/7/d/87d670ec9faa4eafaa183f06f696d995727f4359.png)

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

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

```

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### Author: ![mbauman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mbauman/32/139835_2.png) [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-questions-about-post-voting/282761/4 "2023-10-19T16:29:52Z")

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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.

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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-questions-about-post-voting/282761/5 "2023-10-20T13:02:08Z")

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I encourage you to open a new #Contribute > 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 👍

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-questions-about-post-voting/282761/6 "2023-11-19T13:02:55Z")

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