Why am I unable to change my votes on a question?

[patricebender]

Hi,

If I downvote a question, because it is of poor quality and suggest edits by the author, the casted vote is final. I cannot change it anymore. Sometimes though, the authors are going to improve the quality of their questions and if I am satisfied with the updated question, I should be able to cast another vote to acknowledge their efforts. This is not possible in this forum, as my screenshot shows:

What's the reasoning behind this? I would understand that in a certain window of time, casting multiple votes is not a viable use case. However, after some time, it is perfectly legitimate to change my mind and hence the vote. Stackoverflow does it, why not answers.sap.com?

Link to the question: https://answers.sap.com/questions/13785129/error-in-createupdate-blob-type-in-cap-model.html?childTo...

BR,

Patrice

[jerryjanda]

Hi, Patrice:

Are you experiencing this for all questions or just one in particular? If you could share an example of the answer where you couldn't change the vote, we can investigate.

Kind regards,

--Jerry

[patricebender]

Hi, I have added a link to such a question to the initial description.

[jerryjanda]

Hello again, Patrice:

I was unable to replicate the error. Could you try again and see if you experience the same issue? I think sometimes the system might lock you out if you upvote/downvote too quickly and too often. If you're still experiencing the issue, I'll report to the community's IT team and ask them to investigate.

--Jerry

[patricebender]

I logged in and out multiple times, and it is still not working 😕 I tried to revoke my vote each day in the last 3 days - without success.

[jerryjanda]

Thanks, Patrice. I'll notify our IT team.

Kind regards,

--Jerry

[patricebender]

any news? There is still no solution to my problem.