A long time ago I have read a blog post about the advantages to use different voting scales with icons. I really like when votes not only inform me that this post is well-badly perceived, but also to know why.

I had liked to have a serie of scales, and have the same system to evaluate blog post as my other academic courses (presentation, text...). The voting system can be a digg like or any other a likert 3 or 5 scale (bad, weak, medium, good, excelent). Menus, letters, icons, numbers, plus/minus signs, arrows, colors can represent the scales (not so much important).

Example:
Personal Interest : smilies or up-down thumbs.
Information : icons of lights more or less luminous.
Accessibily and presentation : traffic lights from green to red.
Satisfaction : the overall vote...

Of course, the best is a post that is informative, well presented, and view as personnaly interesting. Thus with such system I can easily organize my work and adjust the course content to fit my audience.

Sincerely

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mercmobily commented

Hello therem

I decided to put the project online on a Saturday so that "nobody would see it" till Monday.
Well... I was wrong!

I think the new version of Simple Karma, which is not online yet, does exactly what you're talking about. In the "select" boxes, you can give a description to each vote (text). You can obviously change them with a CSS...

However, keep in mind that it doesn't use the voting_api for a reason: this is a karma system, more than a voting system. The difference is subtle, but well, it's important. Simple_karma and Drigg both work on the assumption that 0 is "neutral". This has several important implications in the way the module works and handles votes.

Anyhow... give me a couple of days (what a way of spending a summer week-end!) - I will put everything online and you'll let me know :-D

Bye!

Merc.

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mercmobily commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Hi,

I talked to Alan.
Actually... simple karma does this already!
If you pick voting methods 1 and 2, you will basically get a select box. The standard CSS renders it as a select box. However, they can be rendered in whichever way you like - all you need to do is change the css!

Thanks,

Merc.