3 digit voting limit?

Hi Merc, digg regularily goes over 999 votes. Some of my more popular posts have over a hundred thousand views, if I deploy EVF on their comments I expect the top comments to get much more than 999 votes one way or another. But the point is, I'm using voting to differentiate and rank content, if there is a 999 limit then that wouldn't work for the highest ranked stuff.

If you use time based items like digg does, then 5 or 6 digit items are rare. But that artificially limits the ways in which this module can be used. If you look at any content or review site, most of them have more than 999 voters. IMDB for example.

Thanks.

Hi Merc, I don't use drigg. I don't understand what you are trying to say, I don't know any such sites. But if I'm to implement EVF I need more than 3 digits. I explained why in my previous comment. Like I said, I'm not using EVF like Digg or Drigg uses it, to promote news items, I'm using it to rate and recommend content (that has no time limitation, e.g, Shakespeare will never be old news). Nodes (and comments too actually) easily, easily, pass the 3 digit mark.

Hi, thank you for your explaination. I apologize for not having a patch, I read the docs but I can't get Eclipse to work correctly... Anyway, I really appreciate all the work you're doing and I know you have a lot on your hand. I posted this issue because I thought it was strange that there was such a limit on the number of votes. My vbulletin site, which has threads over 200 pages, is moving to drupal, and I want everything to work correctly before I do. But I understand if you want someone to second the request or something. But the devel time to make this edit would be very small, there are only 4 integers to make larger. Thanks for listening.

Hi, I think it's the max length here, which I set to 15. I think it starts at line 231 in extra_voting_forms.module

$form['voting_range']['extra_voting_forms_range_users_plus_n'] = array(
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => t('POSITIVE karma points for normal users - NODES'),
'#size' => 15,
'#maxlength' => 15,
'#required' => TRUE,
'#default_value' => variable_get('extra_voting_forms_range_users_plus_n', 1),
);

$form['voting_range']['extra_voting_forms_range_users_minus_n'] = array(
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => t('NEGATIVE karma points for normal users - NODES'),
'#size' => 15,
'#maxlength' => 15,
'#required' => TRUE,
'#default_value' => variable_get('extra_voting_forms_range_users_minus_n', 3),
);

$form['voting_range']['extra_voting_forms_range_users_plus_c'] = array(
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => t('POSITIVE karma points for normal users - COMMENTS'),
'#size' => 15,
'#maxlength' => 15,
'#required' => TRUE,
'#default_value' => variable_get('extra_voting_forms_range_users_plus_c', 1),
);

$form['voting_range']['extra_voting_forms_range_users_minus_c'] = array(
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => t('NEGATIVE karma points for normal users - COMMENTS'),
'#size' => 15,
'#maxlength' => 15,
'#required' => TRUE,
'#default_value' => variable_get('extra_voting_forms_range_users_minus_c', 1),
);

?>

Sorry for being unclear merc. It WAS 3, I set them to 15 on my setup, and didn't bother to change them back before i pasted it here. But you had set the voting limit field to a 3 max length, effectively limiting the number of votes to 999.

Thanks.

Hi, when I was voting earlier, if the fields were lower than the voting range I got the an error... which to the best of my memory was something along the lines of: Voting outside of voting limit, vote not counted, etc. But you know, I went back and lowered the number but is not able to reproduce this message.

Maybe I'm showing you the wrong fields. What I actually did was ctrl-replace all maxlength 3 to maxlength 15. But doesn't "Up/Down voting values" control how much karma is given when something is voted upon and "Allowed voting range dictate" the max values?

Sorry, you're probably right that I'm misunderstanding something.

Hi Merc, there doesn't seem to be a hardcoded limit. But I don't understand why I got that error. Thanks, and sorry for the non-issue!