New feature: Vote Neutralization
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.
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.
pretty soon you'll be running the place ;)
I am the only one here with white thumbs. I want blue thumbs. Why am i singled out. R-Card? Don't waste your time replying. :)
who said that last part? I don't remember that...
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?
Just hit the same vote button again - NOT the opposite vote button. If you hit the upvote button and want to back out your vote, hit the upvote button again.
Ohhhhh... the highlight disappears but it still lets me click it.. my bad. There I go again assuming. (I've been conditioned by the blue thumbs!!)
Okay..sorry I took up so much of your time with my stupidness. lol :( eek
I am accessing the page using Firefox 22.0 -> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS -> Intel
I did not do a force refresh before either vote.
Just kiddin'. It'll be fixed in a second. Stand by.