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I vote to close/migrate off-topic questions frequently, and I revisit questions often due to reply to comments, update my ancient answers, etc.

I can't always remember if I previously voted to close a question, and there is no visual cue to indicate that I already voted. As a result I will often click on the close link only to realize that I already voted.

You can see the current situation in the images below.

Before voting:

Before voting

After voting:

After voting

I'd like to see the number of votes or the close link to be displayed differently, such as in italics or whatever, after I vote so I know that I already voted. Thus, literally saving seconds per day to allow me to more efficiently pile more questions onto the mouldering, omnipresent, and mountainous heap of the off-topic queue.

AdrianHHH in a comment mentions the tooltip when hovering over the close link will indicate that I voted. This is nice, but I'd still like to know if I voted without needing to hover.

I don't consider this to be a duplicate of Highlight questions I already voted to close in the question list, because I would prefer to see the indication within the question itself.

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    Hovering the pointer over the "close" or "close(\d+)" should give a tooltip, but with different contents depending on whether you have voted to close that question or not. Commented Jun 28, 2016 at 9:09
  • @AdrianHHH Thanks. Didn't know about that. Commented Jun 28, 2016 at 16:29
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    I was about to post the same request. If the text "close" was changed to match the colour of the up/downvoting arrows it would be helpful. Commented Jul 24, 2016 at 15:47
  • I "solved" this by not voting to migrate anymore since such questions almost never get enough votes for the migration to actually occur and it became a waste of time and effort. Commented Jun 3, 2018 at 2:00
  • This is also a concern when reopening. Commented Mar 22, 2022 at 15:01
  • <stackapps.com/q/9286/77981> Commented Mar 26, 2022 at 7:47

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I think this is a very good suggestion. I often find myself in the situation where I browse older questions from an earlier time of the day, or the day(s) before. There are many low quality questions and I do not necessarily remember all that I have seen. It is very frustrating to click on 'Close', only to find out that I already had voted previously.

I would suggest to add an asterisk or discrete character to indicate this:

For instance, this would indicate that I did not yet vote:

I did not yet vote to close

While something like this would immediately tell me that I already did:

I already voted to close

I know one can hover on the menu to get a tooltip, but this is just too slow.

As a further argument to those that might consider it not worth the change. Imagine if you had no direct indication that you up/down-voted a Q/A. How often do you think you would mistakenly click the button again?

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    I prefer the asterisk after the vote. For that, it could be implemented by adding the following CSS:.js-post-menu button[title*="You"] .existing-flag-count:after, .js-post-menu button[title*="you"] .existing-flag-count:after { content:"*)"; } While I have tested this on MSE, I can't test it on MSO or SO. The selectors could probably be reduced to a single selector .js-post-menu button[title^="You"] .existing-flag-count:after , but I went with the longer two selectors due to a lack of testing. Obviously, if you wanted the asterisk in front you could use a :before { content:"(*"; }. Commented Mar 24, 2022 at 15:35
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We made changes to address this issue for the Delete button and included the same logic to the Close button.

  • We added an asterisk ( * ) to the count if you were the one to vote on that post. For example: Close (1*). There's already an existing hover tooltip that explains you have voted on this.

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  • Thanks you for both links Commented Feb 7, 2025 at 2:19

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