Answers Voting

This documentation page details the steps required to get started with Answers Voting, a sub-module of the Answers module. It is related to version 7.x-4.x and above, which is substantially different from prior versions.

This sub-module implements a system to upvote or downvote either Questions and/or Answers (which uses the Rate module).

Why is voting important?

Voting is central to providing quality questions and answers; it is how …

• ...good content rises to the top
• ...incorrect content falls to the bottom

Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information. The more that people vote on a post, the more certain future visitors can be of the quality of information contained within that post – not to mention that upvotes are a great way to thank the author of a good post for the time and effort put into writing it!