Users can currently vote on their own posts.
This should probably be disabled?
0%
Development Status:
Done
Upvote0Downvote1
c
campbell
22 Aug 2019
5 Comments
b
bassam
I think self voting is a slight bug, since people will either vote or not vote on their own proposal, (but all of them probably implicitly endorse it) creating a small amount of noise.
2
C
ChameleonScales
This seems implemented now
1
j
jason
I don't necessarily see it as a problem. How would self-voting be abused?
j
jason
Indeed. When I put the "enable Render Add-on" proposal on this site as the first test post, I downvoted it because it's kind of a ridiculous pitch (and to test downvoting). But I can't imagine that would be the norm.
I
could
however imagine someone (perhaps a developer) posting an idea that they're not overly committed to, but interested in getting user feedback on. In that case, they may refrain from voting.
c
campbellAuthor
Right, devs wanting feedback on patches is reason you may not upvote own.
Also, if you have vote limiting you may not want to
spend
your vote on your own suggestions.
5 Comments
I think self voting is a slight bug, since people will either vote or not vote on their own proposal, (but all of them probably implicitly endorse it) creating a small amount of noise.
This seems implemented now
I don't necessarily see it as a problem. How would self-voting be abused?
Indeed. When I put the "enable Render Add-on" proposal on this site as the first test post, I downvoted it because it's kind of a ridiculous pitch (and to test downvoting). But I can't imagine that would be the norm.
I could however imagine someone (perhaps a developer) posting an idea that they're not overly committed to, but interested in getting user feedback on. In that case, they may refrain from voting.
Right, devs wanting feedback on patches is reason you may not upvote own.
Also, if you have vote limiting you may not want to spend your vote on your own suggestions.