Hmm, voting system, may not be a bad idea, but I think that, there should be a note system too, and you can’t down vote, if you won’t explain why, and perhaps provide some additional information, like research papers, etc… People could click the vote count, and it would resolve into bigger section,…

The voting system on the forum is just to gauge how many people are interested in a recommendation so we can prioritize things, not to measure a tool’s popularity, so downvotes would not be helpful. This is also why people get a limited number of things they can vote for at once. If a tool had 50 u…

The voting system as is is quite confusing to me. I also noticed that even if you didn’t vote for something your own profile picture is shown amongst the voters

This issue is still present. @team any thoughts?

I’m not sure what the issue is?

On items you did not vote for you always see your own picture amongst the voters for some strange reason. [Screenshot_20240812-223413]

Strange i had this since ever on any post. Are you using brave?

I also cannot reproduce this, what browser are you on?

Hi, I have a question about how voting (for suggestions) works: do they ever come back? From what I can tell, my account started with 4 votes. I’ve tried looking up info on this, but it was sparse. I found this: [image] Auto reset vote limit on forum for approved items Meta …

if you would have read the threads you would know the answer. [image] Auto reset vote limit on forum for approved items Meta Votes are purged for completed items (not removed, but no longer count towards the limit which is what you’re asking for). edit: I’ll give regular…

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ph00lt0 February 9, 2025, 9:04pm 12

if you would have read the threads you would know the answer.

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