Hi everyone,
Something that’s come up a lot over the years, topic voting limits, just got a little better.
A number of you had hit the maximum number of votes you could cast on topics, which meant having to pull votes from older topics just to support new ones. Not ideal, and we heard you.
We’ve increased the voting limit. 
Users who’ve been around a while should now have more votes to work with across the community, no reshuffling required. If you’d previously bumped into the cap, you can head back and vote on topics you had to pass on before.
Folks who are newer to the community will still have a lower ceiling for now. As you spend more time here and participate in discussions, that limit will increase.
If this affected you, we’d love your help putting it to the test! Try voting on something you couldn’t support before and let us know how it goes.
Your votes are genuinely useful to us. They’re how we understand which ideas matter most to this community, so the more we can gather, the better.
Thanks to everyone who flagged this over the years. It’s exactly the kind of feedback that helps us improve.
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Glad to see this getting some attention, but I don’t understand why we need a limit at all, could you explain please?
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Voting limits on feature request boards (like Superhuman’s community one) aren’t just arbitrary rules—they keep the whole system actually useful.
Without them:
- Everyone votes on everything → total noise, no real signal about what matters most.
- Power users or brigades drown out the crowd with 50+ votes each.
- You lose that forced “what do I care about enough to spend my limited votes on?” moment, which mirrors how the product team has to prioritize with finite dev time.
Superhuman just chilled out on the old super-strict caps (especially for long-timers who felt punished for sticking around), bumping limits based on tenure + engagement. Smart move—they listened without going full anarchy.
Limits = better prioritization, cleaner data for the team, less gaming, and honestly healthier community vibes. Unlimited votes sound fun until the board becomes meaningless. Caps keep it real.
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Thanks for the reply Bill!
I’m afraid I disagree though, I believe unlimited votes would still yield very meaningful data, simply by dividing them over how many unique views the post has.
Look at YouTube for example, upvotes are unlimited but it’s still a super useful metric when looking at it proportional to the amount of views
The majority of my votes were also made before ever learning there’s a limit (I’m sure I’m not alone)
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In many of my consultancy gigs we need to get users to vote of features in the SCRUM backlogs so we can compute the next sprint’s objectives.
But voter flooding can impact that process (as you described).
So we use an algorithm that weighs each vote pro rata to the number of votes the user makes each period. In our case, users can allocate N votes to a feature (not just one) but they know the weight of their votes is diminished if they place too many votes in a given sprint period.
And we do it all with formulas in Coda.
So the user community must vote on how impactful a feature (or bug fix) is for their business. And the makers assign a “cost” to each item based on the effort to implement.
Then we have a set of formulas that ranks all the backlog features (& bug fixes) by their “ROI” - the ratio of benefit (weighted votes) to cost - so the sprint starts with the biggest impacts and works its way down to the lower ones until the sprint times-out.
Anyway - my point is that you need to weigh users votes by how many votes they have used already.
Max
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@Max_OBrien and @Bill_French explained this really well. Thank you both for jumping in.
@Rickard_Abraham What they described is essentially what helps keep a community like this healthy and genuinely useful. The voting thresholds serve as guardrails to ensure the system continues to surface the most helpful ideas and conversations over time.
Given how long you’ve been part of the community, I don’t expect you to run into meaningful limits on voting at this stage. Those thresholds mainly exist to ensure newer members don’t accidentally overwhelm the signal with a burst of votes before they’ve had time to get familiar with how things work here.
Appreciate you raising the question. It’s a good one, and it helps clarify how the system works for others who might be wondering the same thing.
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I don’t see the ‘Vote’ button anymore
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Try refreshing on any topic page — some community members had a similar issue after the site refresh.
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