Currently everyone is required to register to vote, I want to anonymous guests to be able to vote, of course the karma would be less for an anonymous vote vs a registered vote.

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mercmobily’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Hi,

Drigg uses, by default, extra_voting_forms. I am the author of extra_voting_forms, and can tell you outright that they will never, ever allow anonymous voting - sorry.

The good news is that Drigg can potentially work with ANY voting subsystem. I am saying "potentially" because while the infrastructure is all there, we need to release Drigg 1.0 first, and _then_ work out if other voting system actually do work 10000% fine with it.

I can tell you right now, though, that extra_voting_forms will never ever allow anonymous voting -- sorry!

Bye,

Merc.

calebtr’s picture

merc, tell us more about this - is there some functional reason extra voting forms won''t work with anonymous voters, or is it just something you aren't interested in supporting?

mercmobily’s picture

Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active

Hi,

Anonymous voting:

- Is open to rigging
- Doesn't work well with the voting API, for which a voter has a vote_id (not sure it can be an address)
- Brings the developer to despair in terms of debugging
- Is useless for all those places with proxies
- Is even less useful now that there's openID
- would be messy to implement

If you write a TESTED, FUNCTIONAL patch which gives people the OPTION to have anonymous voting... I won't reject it.

(*TESTED*!)

Merc.

mercmobily’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)