Whispers cannot be seen in Post Voting enabled categories

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patrickemin reports a bug with the Discourse Post Voting plugin, where whispers cannot be seen, modified, or deleted in threads with only one post. In threads with replies, the VOTES button is enabled by default, hiding whispers until users manually switch to the ACTIVITY button. sam suggests disabling whispers in post-voting topics due to complexity, but patrickemin argues this would disable whispers almost entirely on his site. patrickemin proposes that whispers should appear below the post in single-post threads and that the ACTIVITY button should be default in threads with replies.

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Hi, I am reporting here what I consider a bug affecting whispers in the Discourse Post Voting plugin.

  1. When a thread has only one post, that is the Original Post, the whispers can be created, but cannot be seen. Not only that but they cannot be modified or deleted (even though they are listed in your activity personal tab)

  2. When a thread has replies, by default the VOTES button is enabled, which prevents whispers to be displayed. Users must know they have to click on the ACTIVITY button to display the whispers, which is not obvious.

2

I think whispers are a complicated animal in post voting.

Our chronology changes depending on how stuff is sorted, where to show the whisper is going to be complicated.

I wonder if the simple fix here is to disable whispers on these topics.

3

Yes but that would mean disabling them almost completely on my site because by default I use post voting.

4

Understood, but how would you expect them to work?

5

When there is only one post in the thread I expect to see the whisper below that post and if there are replies I expect post voting to activate the Activity button by default.