Need ability for anonymous votes
garamvideos - January 4, 2008 - 00:29
| Project: | Drigg |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | won't fix |
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Description
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.
#1
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.
#2
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?
#3
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.
#4