Merging votes
When you merge 2 topics, the votes count on the resulted merge must be +1
Also, the merged topic should show as a comment in the resulted merge.
When you merge 2 topics, the votes count on the resulted merge must be +1
Also, the merged topic should show as a comment in the resulted merge.
The global count depends on which people voted on both duplicate topics (not to count two votes for the same person).
But since you can prevent double-voting, I'm sure you can prevent double-counting.
Idea A has 2 votes, then a new Idea B with 0 votes is merged. The total should be 3, since B is also someone interested in that same idea (even having 0 votes, the post itself should count as 1).
Idea A has 2 votes, then a new Idea B with 0 votes is merged. The total should be 3, since B is also someone interested in that same idea (even having 0 votes, the post itself should count as 1).
Indeed, if he created this topic, he is implicitely "for", and should be counted +1 when merged to another similar topic, where only the author of that other topic is not counted.
Note: this +1 when merging should not be counted if that forum does not prevent from voting for our own topics.
"Manual" alternative:
when the admin merges two topic, such a case could raise a dialog box and let him choose what he wants "Warning: the author of the merged topic is nit in the merged count. Should we add +1 for that user?"