Hi Eaton,

I post this here honestly cause I'm really nore sure where this goes in the whole drupal galaxy, but I think your module could be a good place to implement what I (and probably all vote up down modules users) need.

The 'points' system is really cool, as with voting actions, one can publish nodes to the front page à la 'digg' using for example the vote up down module. One constant problem is that to bring pages to the front page and order them by 'time of promotion" one needs to actually touch the creation date, adn the order nodes by creation date > front page...

I think that the voting system should allow to order nodes by 'promotion date' which would be the date is promoted to the front page for example. It could be linkedto action, like for example saying this action : publish to front page > touch promoted date... So the node could change date each time it goes one level up or it goes to a user-specified goal like : front page, in my case...

After asking on IRC, I know that drupal does not store a timestamp for when a node is promoted... So that's why I think this module could do it, since it's really useful with voting modules, especially vote up down!

I know this could be done by adding a column in the db to store a timestamp and then we could integrate it with views for example...You could then filter any list by 'promoted date' and still keep the original creation date, which is the objective here...

I'll have to think more about this, but it's a first try at solving this long lasting issue, at least long lasting for me... heh..

ANy ideas, suggestions?

Thanks
Patchak

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hanief84’s picture

hanief84 commented

Yeah! Otherwise, people vote for nothing. Imagine they send the weblink on a frontpage then after a few votes the weblink will sink down deeper and people won't dig the story as it won't be floated up again. Seriously, there must be a method to get the voting and the result process go well.

1. People vote on some posted weblink (which is not promoted to frontpage yet)
2. Soon and later by having some people vote up the weblink, it will be promoted to the frontpage.
3. Can't we see how Digg.com works? Well if they already patented the idea, I just want a better table of Weblinks that have been voted, so that I can see them clearly without having to scroll and squint my eyes very much.

Thanks! :)

eaton’s picture

eaton commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

This would be handled by the Voting Actions module. Voting Actions is no longer part of the VotingAPI module; at some point I may be able to pick it back up, but at present I don't have the bandwidth to upgrade it to D5/D6 properly.