Lack of interest Upvote - Downvote Indicators

This suggestion has been closed automatically because it did not receive enough votes over an extended period of time. If you wish to see this, please search for an open suggestion and, if you don't find any, post a new one.
N

Neutral Singh

Well-known member
An observation: When I go to upvote a post, the arrow ( ^ ) is correctly pointing upwards...
Screen Shot 2020-06-25 at 1.59.44 AM.png

But if I have a change of mind, I decide to undo the vote, even then the arrow is still pointing upwards, imho it should automatically indicate downwards to downvote from a logical point of view...
Screen Shot 2020-06-25 at 1.59.52 AM.png
 
Last edited:
Upvote 5
This suggestion has been closed. Votes are no longer accepted.
It seems that the down-vote option isn't enabled on XF.com: (as noted by @Chris D)
xenforo.com

XF 2.2 - Welcome to XenForo 2.2 / What's still to come

We've spent the last few weeks talking about the new features in XenForo 2.2. Now, it's your first chance to try some of them out and help us put them through their paces. Welcome to XenForo 2.2! 👋 As you may notice, we have started converting some of our forums to more specific forum types...
xenforo.com xenforo.com
 
That's a different functionality... if pressing the counter would have only bold unbold then it have been fine.. but it involves a counter... up means up... down means down...
 
It should not be down then you would think you are downvoting. You are not. You are removing an upvote.

15 will go to 14 (where it was) not 13.
 
"Vote" & "Unvote" would do the job.
An arrow up that decrease amount was implemented by aliens, who want to sabotage human kind civilization.
 
Neutral Singh said:
That's a different functionality... if pressing the counter would have only bold unbold then it have been fine.. but it involves a counter... up means up... down means down...
Click to expand...
I agree totally that this seems counterintuitive for arrows to not mean what you would expect. Seems to be what people are saying here also:

xenforo.com

As designed - Upvoting made number go down

I went to an old thread: Scheduled Thread / Post Below the up arrow it said 117, I pressed the up arrow and the number changed to 116. I think this has to do with that I already had liked the thread way back. But I think this is a bug.
xenforo.com xenforo.com
 
Anatoliy said:
that's all you can say, when nothing to say? )
Click to expand...
No I was asking to know why.

I feel it is because XF converted the Likes. So... when you visit now you go to vote (and you have already) and it goes down as you are now removing it. The initial reaction is "WTF?" But I feel if they had not converted them we would not be seeing this reaction and petition to change. I did it once and figured it out. Your own users should not have the same issue because you are not converting scores and unvoting is a rare occurrence when intended. The system feels very natural to me and I have never used reddit or SE.

My take is the arrow should definitely not point down but there could be some sort of "I already voted" indicator besides the color change. Just to eliminate the erroneous unvote which then in turn can cause this confusion. If somebody really wants to unvote then they would see the indicator removed as well but the arrows would stay as is. Maybe it can just say Voted with the date next to it. Like a post timestamp. "Voted 1 hour ago" "Voted January 12 2019" Just ideas. :)
 

Similar threads

R
Upvote/Downvote System
Replies
1
Views
87
Davyc
Davyc
Davyc
Top 20+ upvote/downvote system
Replies
4
Views
753
Lee
Lee
N
  • Question Question
XF 2.1 How to know who Upvote/Downvote ?
Replies
9
Views
974
Ozzy47
Ozzy47
S
  • Question Question
XF 2.2 How To Set-Up A Reddit-like Upvote/Downvote System?
Replies
4
Views
2K
trigatch4
trigatch4
M
  • Suggestion Suggestion
Lack of interest UpVote/DownVote System like Disqus
Replies
0
Views
251
MisakiTaro
M
Back
Top Bottom