HI,
1.Does voting on a topic post, not a reply, have any effect?
- Is it possible to only enable Toggle Post Voting in Create a new topic? (New Topic is disabled)
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The discussion, titled “Two questions about post voting,” revolves around two main queries regarding post voting in Discourse. LoveMCJ asks whether voting on a topic post (not a reply) has any effect and if it’s possible to enable post voting only in new topics while disabling it elsewhere. Canapin directs them to a meta-discourse thread explaining that topic post voting does have an effect, and suggests enabling the “New topics default to Post Voting” setting in category settings, along with using CSS to hide the “Remove Post Voting” option. mbauman comments on the UX implications, suggesting that post voting toggling should be more centrally controlled rather than left to the original poster. Canapin encourages opening a feature request to formalize this suggestion.
Hello 
There’s a discussion about this here:
This reply in particular should answer your question: Voting button appears on opening post - #6 by sam
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;
}
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.
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 