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Prevent page from refreshing when user votes for an idea

This is a major annoyance. It would be a much nicer experience for the page not to refresh everytime you voted on something. But at the very least, when you vote on something, could you please make it so after the page refreshes it doesn't move vertically? I know why it's happening: you're opening a new URL with a hashtag(eg, #item_comment_block_371) so it goes to that place, which is better than reopening the page at the very top, losing your context entirely. But please. It's a really disrupting experience to have the page refresh every time you vote on ideas or comments. I don't want my users to have this bad of an experience. Thank you. 

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Thank you for your feedback, David.

To prevent page from moving vertically we would have to make voting work via ajax. Page would not refresh and stay on the same place. I believe we'll do this at some point, but it is a big amount of work and there has to be a strong demand.

You got it right on how it works now. When you click something and page reloads, it will "scroll" to the top - we can't tell the browser to stay where it is. I believe we could add a hashtag to the voting button. That would make it scroll down to the button after the page is reloaded. Do you think this will do the job? Please let me know.

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The closest you can keep the vertical scroll position when doing this refresh, the better. 

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