Allow voting on closed topics

That’s a pretty good suggestion, and it should be pretty simple to implement. I’ll add it to my list. Hopefully I’ll get it done within a week.

Wow, thanks @natekinkead! That would be great ??

@nyodulf, I finally got a chance to look into it. I could have sworn I already made that feature, and as soon as I got in to look, there it was. The setting is called “View-Only Scores on Closed Topics”. Let me know if that accomplished what you’re looking for. Thanks.

@natekinhead – That’s what I was thinking of alright. I didn’t realise that was possible already!

The only thing is that, now I see it in action, I think it would probably be more useful if it could be set at a topic level. I’d be using it on club website and ideally I’d be able to create the topic to vote on, then close voting at some point while leaving the topic in place for reference.

Obviously your plugin can do that, but it would mean that I could only have one voting topic at a time. I could find a workaround I think, because I doubt I’d need more than one concurrent voting topic. I could just move a topic out of the voting forum once it was complete and just add a summary reply.

I appreciate you looking into this ??

I’m having trouble understanding the problem. Wouldn’t you close each topic one at a time?

Thanks @natekinkead. Here’s an example I hope will help explain what I mean.

Let’s say I create a topic, “Which is better – X or Y?”, with a couple of option replies that people can only vote on and not reply to, so the topic is closed and the global “View-Only Scores on Closed Topics” setting is disabled.

The problem now is that if I want to add another vote-only topic a few months later, I cannot fully close my “Which is better – X or Y?” topic to new votes. People can still vote on that one as long as the global “View-Only Scores on Closed Topics” setting is disabled.

If I wanted to keep the “Which is better – X or Y?” for future reference for members to see which people thought was better at the time, I would have to do something like move the topic out of the voting forum into a non-voting forum and manually edit the replies to say “X received 10 votes” and “Y received 9 votes”.

Being able to disable a “View-Only Scores on This Topic When Closed” setting for individual topics would resolve the issue because when the voting was over on my “Which is better – X or Y?” I could just enable that again, making votes impossible on that topic but not affecting any other vote-only topics.

I hope that makes sense. Thanks again.

I see your point now, but that is a pretty specific need that I’m having a hard time coming up with a solution that would be generally useful. Do you have a set amount of time that you allow voting on newly created & closed topics? Maybe I could add a setting that allows voting for a certain number of days after the topic is closed?

Marking this as resolved since I haven’t heard back and the request is a bit too specific to implement in this plugin, but maybe could be done in custom code.