Glitch with post "score"?

I noticed that when you favorite a post, it'll gain a +1 in score, you can then add another +1 by pressing the vote up button.

So in a way you can vote positive twice in each post.

I doubt it's supposed to be that way but I can't be certain.

EDIT: If you un-favorite a post it goes down a score as well. Just throwing that out there.

DOCoSPADEo said:
I noticed that when you favorite a post, it'll gain a +1 in score, you can then add another +1 by pressing the vote up button.

Yes, it works that way. You can vote twice.
Same goes to downvote and removal from favorites.

This was brought up in forum #75433 .

Don't think it's intentional, but having favourites upvote is rather useful. Would be better if it actually checked if you had already upvoted the image though, as it seems unnecessary having double upvotes.

It is intentional. You can influence a post's score by -1, 0, 1, or +2 (with favorite). The +1 from favoriting is reversible. It has worked more or less this way since the beginning of the voting system. Though safeguards to prevent multiple votes are better now than they once were.

The linked post concerns -1 votes due to flagging, which is something relatively newer, and rather contentious.

It's also worth mentioning that post-votes (and comment-votes) expire after two weeks, so it's technically possible to perpetually vote on one.

Right... but that's done for technical reasons, and is probably the sort of thing best left unadvertised. It's a loophole that probably shouldn't be exploited for moral reasons.

Shinjidude said:
It is intentional. You can influence a post's score by -1, 0, 1, or +2 (with favorite).

If it's intentional, what was the original intent?

To allow a person to give a little more influence to a post they consider their favorite than they can to one they merely like enough to vote for? It's nothing deeper or more convoluted than that.

Bapabooiee said:
It's also worth mentioning that post-votes (and comment-votes) expire after two weeks, so it's technically possible to perpetually vote on one.

Really? After reading what you just posted I went back to check some really old posts, and they seem to have maintained their score. Did you mean in 2 weeks after voting, we can vote again?

Yeah, a job runs on the server every day that checks for votes that are more than 2 weeks old, and then purges them. It doesn't affect posts' scores - it just allows allows you to re-vote on them. [0] and [1].

Hopefully Danbooru2'll have persistent votes.

Shinjidude said:
To allow a person to give a little more influence to a post they consider their favorite than they can to one they merely like enough to vote for? It's nothing deeper or more convoluted than that.

Different voting weights make sense, but why only positive?

Alignn said:
Different voting weights make sense, but why only positive?

Well since the votes you make expire in 2 weeks, but the score stays. You can technically down-vote a post all you want. I can see why Shinjidude said it's best not to make this a widely-known fact, "for moral reasons"