Votes for ideas are lower than actual votes, looks like intentionally created situation

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After month of no activity any idea in forum is closed with “this topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.”

But the locked discussion still has votes. There may be 5 replies with 50 votes.
Than someone creates a new post on same issue, usually without reference to previous one. And issue receives votes there.
Which makes it appear to have lower number of votes because they are now split to 2-3 topics about the same issue.

Figma could easily disable closing after 30 days, but this remains enabled. Or moderators could merge topics and votes, but they don’t.

Anyway, what’s the point? This is a graveyard of ideas anyway, hardly anything ever getting implemented.

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Hey @Romanr, thanks for flagging this!

Ultimately, this should not be happening for feature requests i.e. “Share an idea”. This topic for example doesn’t show a Topic Timer for auto-close, and when we merge similar topics, all votes are merged into the open feature request topic.

Depending on when the topic was created, there may have been different rules auto-applied to the topic. But please know that we will always re-open and merge/un-merge topics as needed, when flagged to us by the community.

Do you have any specific topic(s) that you’d like to flag? Feel free to list them in this topic, so we can re-open them, as needed!