Well, for what it’s worth I logged in as star3 (with their permission), noted the account had reached its limit on votes and closed a request they voted for. They were then able to almost immediately add one vote to another request. I haven’t checked on the 116 votes thing yet, but to be honest 100 votes was chosen as a number I didn’t think anyone would ever hit. ;-) We need to do a better job of cleaning things up (@bouteloua’s doing that now, thank you!) and closing requests on a more timely manner.
How long after a topic is closed does it take for votes to be returned? Just now in my forum notifications I saw this:
It says my vote was already released because the topic was “completed”, but when I visit the topic my vote is still there:
As I said, in my testing I found it to be almost immediate. I closed a request with my account in one browser, then went to another browser where I was logged in as you, loaded a different request and saw that your account could vote for it.
Discourse still keeps a record of your vote for a feature request (that’s why everyone’s icon is still showing on that closed request). But that vote is no longer counted against your number of allowed active votes.
I just closed a feature request you voted for. Can you now vote for another feature request?
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Ah, is that why I was showing 116 votes (it was a voting history, not active votes)?
I just went to a feature request & it was showing “Limit” on the button*, but when I clicked it let me vote for it and correctly updated the button text to “Voted”.
*with votes available to me the button text should have said “Vote” instead of “Limit”.
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That’s not something I saw in my testing, if I refreshed the feature request page a few seconds after another request was closed, I saw Vote as the option.
it wasn’t even a refresh (so even less likely to be cache issues).
It was a completely new tab, to a feature request I had no votes or comments on.
Cannot remove votes from older topics to free them up for fresh ones.
Still have 4 left meanwhile.
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I was just able to remove a vote from a topic.
- I moused over Voted to see how many i had left.
- I clicked on Voted then clicked on the red X next next to Remove Vote.
- The topic now has 9 votes and I have 13 votes remaining.
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Thanks - I was trying to delete votes directly from the list.
Must open each topic first.
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I am amazed, what a lot of work by just 8 core people. Awesome, just awesome. And of course thanks
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Thanks! And hopefully we’ll be adding to that number soon.
But really the lion’s share of work on iNat is done by the community - adding IDs and comments, voting on data quality, welcoming new users, curating taxa, and moderating behavior. It’s a full community effort and we owe iNat’s success to that.
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The whole is greater than the sum :-)
Inat is a wonderful community.
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