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Weird behaviour of +1 buttons
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Not taking into account any invisible downvoting, there is an easy explanation.
Let's say someone's count is at 0 and you upvote -- the count goes to 1. If you want to take your vote back now and press the downvote button, the count goes to -1, because you just downvoted them. That's how it's supposed to work, and not a bug.It's a bit counterintuitive, but if you want to remove an upvote you gave someone, you have to press the upvote button again. And if you want to remove a downvote you gave, you have to press the downvote button again. This will remove the upvote or downvote cleanly, without voting into the other direction
(I did it with the OP to check this real quick again)
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@luetage thank you and sorry for late reply (i was missing you're reply). Yes, it's pretty clear once you know that. Mumble... I thiunk a new help post comes soon
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@quinca71 Where, please?
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@ayespy Point at the cumulative votes-count for any target post [even if "apparently" only 0]. Left click on this number. Voila, magic occurs!!
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We found out about this ourselves on our forum - clicking the same button twice on a post removes your vote, whereas clicking the opposite button may restore the total but leaves the system saying you voted both ways. And yes, names of voters is easy to find - I see Marco Indaco upvoted luetage's post above, for example.
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I see in this forum that clicking up then down actually does cancel your up and leave your down (by trying it on luetage's post above) - if you then downvote again to cancel your downvote it leaves you not having voted at all. Okay, makes some sense.
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@quinca71 Thank you. It's being looked into.
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@sgunhouse The point is you can just click upvote to cancel the upvote in the first place. No reason to click downvote first.
And sorry for spoiling the info on how to see the upvote/downvote listing, I thought it's common knowledge. Well, at least that the moderators and admins would know about it.
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hello Marko Indaco
Not weird, but different? was there a change? seems the list of voters is now chronological; where it was previously alphabetic. did that change? -
@i_ri hi, I don't pay attention if it now sort alphabetic or chronological. The behave that I would point in the first post was about the voting behave (arrow up or down) but now seems working fine. Anyway I (personally) really don't like it. It such a confusing, expecially for new Forum users. My idea is something like in the screenshot below.
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@marko-indaco That's ugly, I'm completely against it. Far better to use voting indicators, which color the background of the triggered upvote/downvote (green/red), which is an available forum modification and easy enough to implement, if the devs really want.
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@luetage said in Weird behaviour of +1 buttons:
@marko-indaco That's ugly, I'm completely against it.
LOL yes, it was only an idea, for pointing out that, maybe, something clear it would be better. For this purpose the red/green color on arrows it's a good idea (even with a frame around buttons)
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@marko-indaco Yeah, I colored the chevrons instead of the background in the first theme I made for Vivaldi. But over time I came to realise that the background variant has far better usability, because your votes are far more visible and can't be overlooked.