Node promotion with user votes

Posted by MaraudeR on March 17, 2009 at 6:49pm

Hi there,

I've an spanish site (http://librexpresion.org/) using Drupal since 4.x. I choose Drupal for it because among other things it used to have a system to promote -or demote- nodes to the front page through user votes, like kuro5hin.org did and does. When I migrate to 5.x I found that that system didn't work anymore, I expend sometime searching for a "standard" solution that works, but I didn't find none, so I created my own promotion-by-user-votes module. It's very ugly, but it works.

Now I would like to migrate to Drupal 6.x, and BTW search again a more "standard" way to implement promotion by user votes, but I've been unable to find the way after hours searching. All modules that may be useful for this, seems to be deprecated, I've not found nothing for 6.x version that matchs that I want. So, my last bullet before trying to adapt my own module again...

Is there any Drupal module -or combination of modules- to build the frontpage basing on USER VOTES TO NODES?

Thanks in advance, and please, excuse my english.

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Posted by VM on March 17, 2009 at 6:50pm

investigate vote up down

Thanks, but...

Posted by MaraudeR on March 17, 2009 at 7:34pm

From "vote up down" module page:

"To be able to automatically promote story links that have a specified number of votes to the front page, you'll need Actions and Voting Actions."

But actions has not 6.x version, and voting_actions neither:

http://drupal.org/project/actions
http://drupal.org/project/voting_actions

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Posted by WorldFallz on March 17, 2009 at 8:43pm

As stated on the project page, actions is part of core in D6. As for voting_actions, a quick glance at the issue queue located http://drupal.org/node/402674. You may want to try the http://drupal.org/project/rules module -- you might be able to do it with a bit of php. Otherwise you may want to help with the issue to get voting_actions updated.

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Posted by VM on March 17, 2009 at 10:19pm

:| all too often people stop reading 1/2 way through.

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Posted by WorldFallz on March 17, 2009 at 10:58pm

1/2 way? You're being generous VM-- i'd swear they don't read past the title, lol.

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You're wrong

Posted by MaraudeR on March 22, 2009 at 8:14pm

My native language is Spanish, my English is not good and sometimes -like this- I can miss information in a document not because I didn't read it, just simply because I didn't understand it.

But you know: all too often people starts giving lessons to anothers too fast. May be something related with the Dunning-Kruger effect or so...