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New feature: Vote Neutralization

Posted by sdesapio 12 years, 9 months ago to The Gulch: General
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You've just voted on a Gulch post and, "DAMN IT!" you hit the wrong button and voted the wrong way.

Easily solved: click the opposite button and your vote is switched. Nice.

But, what if you just wanted to back out your vote? What if you hit a vote button accidentally when you didn't even mean to vote? Until now, you've been out of luck.

Introducing "Vote Neutralization."

From here on out, if you ever mistakenly vote and simply want to back it out, just click the same button again and, voila. Go ahead and try it out on this post, or any post, to see it work.

And then vote this post up permanently because you love it.

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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No... if it started at 1 and you voted one way or the other and then decide crap! I don't want to vote at all...how do you get it back to the original 1 count? Isn't that what neutralizing is supposed to do? Negate your own vote, not give or take away an additional point? Heck maybe I misunderstood this whole idea from the get go. Here's what I know for sure...it's working the same way it always has..nothing has changed.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Nope not working... this comment right here had 2 pts... I took one away, then when I hit the up button it showed 3..I can't get it back to 2. I also use firefox. SO I'm in stuck deciding do I want to give you a point for this or minus one...what should I do? I'm going with minus.
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  • Posted by sdesapio 12 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    OK. This is actually exactly what the neutralize feature is for. You need to try it out on something you've not yet voted on or you need to try reversing an existing vote.

    You're seeing -2 and +2 because you're voting in the opposite direction of a previous vote. If you downvote something you've previously upvoted, it will lose 2 points because you're not neutralizing, you're actually changing your vote.

    Let's see if I can illustrate it...
    1. A new post is created by someone else. It now has a +1 score.
    2. You upvote it. It now has a +2 score. Remember, you have cast a vote FOR the post.
    3. You change your mind and downvote. It now has a score of 0 because you cast a vote AGAINST the post.

    1 + 1 = 2
    1 - 1 = 0

    This is why it LOOKS like it's losing 2 points. It's not really though. It's simply tallying your vote correctly. This is why we had to add the neutralize function - so when you change your mind, and back out a vote, it loses only 1 point.

    Make sense?

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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ok. I figured it out. I tried it on posts that had multiple points. when I click down vote it removes two-BUT only on posts that I had previously voted on. If I hit down vote again, it restores one. I then had to hit up vote to bring it neutral. On posts I had not already at some point voted on, it works.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    on a post, when I click "down vote" it subtracts 2 points. When I then hit "up vote" it restores two points. On a comment it works just fine. I tried it on several posts that had more than 2 points
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  • Posted by sdesapio 12 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And you are clicking on the same button right (e.g. To neutralize an upvote, you click on the upvote button)?
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  • Posted by sdesapio 12 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When you click the button, the number that comes back is the actual number at the time. You probably hit it at the same time someone else did. Try again on a few different posts and let me know your results.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    it worked for me originally. But then I tried it again and it took away 2 points. it did neutralize both points when I hit the opposite button
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 12 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Scott,

    I am accessing the page using Firefox 22.0 -> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS -> Intel

    I did not do a force refresh before either vote.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me either.... I voted the post down, as a test, but unable to reclick the down button to neutralize....was left with only being able to up vote...so Scott just got an up vote during a test that I can't remove. I feel tricked. lol
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