LogFAQs > #970612104

Requiring unvotes is functionally useless.

If people don't keep track of if they have a vote down or not, it becomes standard for people to just always unvote when placing a vote down. Even if they don't have a vote down. But if people are always unvoting, you might as well not require it.

Unvoting serves the purpose of removing a player's vote. That's what it does. The reason hosts like unvotes is because it clues them in when updating votals (but this is unnecessary if the host has eyes).

Besides, with how long days are, I don't think it's fair to the players to require them to sift back through pages and pages of topics to try to find votals, to keep track of who has a vote down or not, for themselves AND other players, if host is not providing votals very frequently.

As it's been said, the actual effect of not requiring unvotes is usually just that somebody wants to put a vote down, gets told they forgot to unvote, then puts a vote down.

I'm pretty sure what started this trend of hosts requiring unvotes was like, somebody mistakenly requiring them at some point and then everyone going along with it (may have been a Sultan game, even??)