Best post voting plugin

NodeHam

I've looked around at the plugins and posts and it's really not clear if a voting plugin exists. I see lots of poll mentioned but didn't see anything about voting.

I'd like to find a plugin that is well maintained that would allow members to vote on the best post/s in a thread. Basically, like putting up a prize for the best post then seeing which person wins based on the votes.

Is there anything official that might do this?

phenomlab

@NodeHam the ability to vote is part of core

NodeHam

Too many things at once. Thank you for letting me know.
I'll dig that up from the documentation.

NodeHam

Any chance you could let me know what I need to be searching for?
Searching for nodebb and vote, voting, etc isn't leading me to anything.

PitaJ

@NodeHam I'm not sure if the built in thing is really what you're looking for, but you can see the upvote/downvote buttons on the posts here.

NodeHam

Ah, that might work. I never noticed them as being potentially used this way.
So, if a comment gets the most upvotes, does it show in the order of upvoted comments first?

NodeHam

Is how this works documented somewhere? Do upvoted posts keep moving to the top or is there a way to see which posts have the most upvotes?
I searched for upvote downvote 2022 and found nothing buy my own question.

<baris>

You can sort the posts of a topic by votes.

NodeHam

Yes, the user can sort but is there a way to have most upvoted posts be at the top by default when a post is made specifically to get votes?

volanar

@NodeHam said in Best post voting plugin:

Yes, the user can sort but is there a way to have most upvoted posts be at the top by default when a post is made specifically to get votes?

I think you are looking for a plugin similar to
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-post-voting
But for nodebb

NodeHam

Basically, an upvote kind of thing could work but it might not be obvious to users.
I need something that will be obvious to users, that they are upvoting a certain comment.
Much better if the first post is the vote and they can comment all they want below that but vote on the first post.