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I was pleased to see the new votes cast item on the user status hover over thingy. However, I think it might have broken the restriction on the number of votes that can be cast in a day. I appear to have voted 31 times today on Stack Overflow. There was also no warning when I was approaching the 30 limit if that's relevant.

31 votes cast today

After reading the link from mmyers, I still think there's a bug.

I've voted (according to the view), 31 times. If I try to vote on an answer, I do indeed get told I can't vote. However, it's saying:

Come back to vote in on more answers in 2 hours, or use your remaining 8 question votes now.

From the link, the number of question votes should be 10, so a combined total would be 40, not 31+8 (39), or am I missing something?

As an aside, it would be nice to get some kind of warning if I use my last 'general purpose vote', even if it is on a question.

Yesterday, I have a different, but related issue. I cast 28 votes (a lot of them were probably on questions), however I couldn't cast one of my final 30 votes on an answer. I went round the pages a couple of times to make sure it wasn't because I was on the same page...

From Profile Page:

28 votes today

From Status View 28 votes today

Error when casting vote: Come back to vote on more answers in 3 hours, or use your 10 remaining question votes now

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  • See meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89534/… Commented May 5, 2011 at 22:11
  • @mmyers: Thanks for that, apparently I need to start listenng to the pod cast. I still think there is an issue (albeit a smaller one). Commented May 5, 2011 at 22:42
  • Did you open the popup before voting? we only load it once per page Commented May 6, 2011 at 13:09
  • @Nick Craver: That's a good question and I can't give you a 100% answer. I don't think any votes were cast between the snapshot saying 31 and the message saying I only had 8 votes left. I think I noticed I was at 30 and hadn't had a warning, cast a vote, then refreshed the page to get the snapshot. After @mmyers comment, I then when back and tried to upvote an answer, but I think it was on the same page. I'm about 15 votes away from the same situation, so I may be able to reproduce it tonight / close this if I can't. Commented May 6, 2011 at 13:25
  • @Nick Craver: I've just gone through and done some reading on Meta / used up my votes and it looks like you're right, I can't have refreshed the page between voting for an answer and trying to vote for a question. It's working as expected here. Do you want to post an answer I can accept/ update the status to non-repro? Commented May 6, 2011 at 15:12
  • @Nick Craver: I've changed my mind.. there's definetly something wrong on SO.. I'm showing 28 votes cast, but can't cast anymore... votes on answers today... I'll post screen grabs tomorrow... Commented May 6, 2011 at 22:02

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Since I totally revamped the way this works, I am closing this as status-completed see:

Please don't require answer votes to be cast before question votes

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    Seemed to work much better yesterday. Thanks. Commented May 10, 2011 at 6:57

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