Currently, we can't un-upvote or un-downvote answers we voted on in the past. This is to prevent strategic voting and is generally a good thing©.

However, sometimes I want to un-upvote or un-downvote an answer once I changed my views on the subject or know it better. Gaining an understanding in a language/framework/library/system is very common when programming and often in retrospect I'd vote differently.

It would be really nice if we could retract votes after a duration - probably a month.

Related questions on meta:

• Can we remove vote lock-in?
• Undo downvote without the need to edit downvoted answer
• What's the purpose of locking a vote down until the next edit?

Opening on Meta SO and not Meta SE because I'm not sure this "learning of the field" applies in some sites - maybe it does.

Currently, we can't un-upvote or un-downvote answers we voted on in the past. This is to prevent strategic voting and is generally a good thing©.

However, sometimes I want to un-upvote or un-downvote an answer once I changed my views on the subject or know it better. Gaining an understanding in a language/framework/library/system is very common when programming and often in retrospect I'd vote differently.

It would be really nice if we could retract votes after a duration - probably a month.

Related questions on meta:

• Can we remove vote lock-in?
• Undo downvote without the need to edit downvoted answer
• What's the purpose of locking a vote down until the next edit?

Opening on Meta SO and not Meta SE because I'm not sure this "learning of the field" applies in some sites - maybe it does.