jRating - Tracking unregistered voters
I have created a website (Rankster.co.uk) with a purpose of listing the best websites as voted by the users. I have used the jRating and 5 Star module to get this setup.
The problem I have is that in order for the users to cast their vote they need to be logged in. This is obviously a big deterent in getting people to actually cast this votes.
My question is would it possible to track users by IP or something similar instead of having to have them register to cast a vote? This way I could get people voting easily, and their votes would be remembered against their IP so that they don't 'spam' the voting system and give the same item multiple votes. It still wouldn't stop determined 'spammers' from casting multiple votes from other machines but would make it harder.
Anyone have any other suggestions?
Click here to see the site here, and if you like why not cast a couple votes ;)
can't you just go into
can't you just go into Access control and under Rate Content, check the box also for anonymous users?
It doesn't work
I have tried changing the Access Control to allow Anonymous users to use the FiveStar/jRating function.
It allows Anonymous users to view the voting element, but on adding their rating an error appears saying that they must login or register.
Another query...
It says that the 5 star rating module allows Anonymous voting, does anyone know if it does this via cookies or logging the anonymous users IP?
Same problem here
Hi
I have the same problem. Even thought the access control is set for anonymous users to vote they can't. Do you solve this one?
I did sort it out in the end
I did get around it in the end. I can't remember exactly how - I have since rebuilt the site on Drupal 6.x and the 5-Star anonymous rating works fine.
I think I did something like disable the JRating module and then the Fivestar worked ok with anon users.
Also remember you need to set the Access Controls to allow anon users to vote.
Typo in your URL
hi jusinchev.
you have a typo in your rankster URL.
It should be www.rankster.co.uk and not www.ranskter.co.uk
:-)
Doh
That was a rather crucial typo!