I wanted to vote for a a feature request, but I’m out of votes. So I went and removed two old votes from other feature requests and refreshed the page. But I’m still out of votes. This is kind of annoying. Any suggestions for what else I can do? I’d prefer not to remove past votes from feature reque…

[image] deboas: Your vote still “counts” in the closed feature request, but if you remove it there, even though the vote count will drop by one, you won’t get another vote back, as it was already credited to you when the feature was closed. At least that’s how I understand how it works. Yes, …

Also, closed topics don’t give you votes back automatically, not sure if iNat can do something with that, but it’ll give users many votes back.

I am forced to pick thru the list. Remove votes from closed topics. And older votes which are sliding into - iNat has decided not to … Keeping my active votes for newer, and perhaps hopeful, topics?

[image] deboas: I wanted to vote for a a feature request, but I’m out of votes. So I went and removed two old votes from other feature requests and refreshed the page. But I’m still out of votes. I reached the limit, removed a vote, and I was able to vote on another request. marina_gorbu…

Would either of you be OK if I logged in as you (which I can do as an admin) and tested this out? I just tested both scenarios and couldn’t find any issues.

OK, I logged in as you and removed a vote from https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/access-pinned-locations-on-the-batch-edit-screen/21294 (just a random choice). I think when to another randomly chosen request ( https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-extra-confirmation-step-when-agreeing-with-ids-on-own-ob…

Yes, now it says I have one vote when I go to a random request page, but what about all others that I removed, are they lost? And why do they register from your side and not ours?

Hi @tiwane , no problem - feel free to test. I wonder if I had previously reached a level on the Forum that permitted me to have more votes, and dropped a level that leaves me with fewer, such that even removing votes, I’m still over this newer limit? Not sure if that is possible.

On a closed topic - could you not give us back our votes automatically? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-a-drop-down-menu-for-tags/38135 This is closed, Now it is a mission for us to convince the system to give me back my vote so I can use it.

Removing old votes doesn't give me votes back

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marina_gorbunova February 7, 2023, 7:53pm 5

No, I removed votes from around 30 closed topics and it still says “limit”.

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Removing old votes doesn't give me votes back

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