Voting Systems

I need to build a video contest site. User manolism has described here http://drupal.org/node/275649 a site he built with some custom modules. I do not yet have the ability to write my own module. I need to build a site where people can register, embed a YouTube or Google video, and selected one of 9 categories (entered as taxonomies). For this I am using the Video module, and have it working fine. I need to have registered users to vote for one video per taxonomy.

I just read this article on Amazon's review system and found it quite interesting. They show how a couple minor tweaks to a standard 'five star' rating system - namely adding the question "Was this review helpful to you?" and associated tweaks (use of Ajax, the 'tally feature' and ease of finding negative reviews) made the rating system much more useful and in turn added value for Amazon. Perhaps this is helpful to the developers and users of Fivestar and related modules...

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-magic-behind-amazons-27-billion-dolla...

Graham.

Hello I am using views and the voting Api. I have a list of nodes that I want to display by votes in descending order.

I can get it to list by average but I really would like to make an algorithm that calculates the amount of votes and gives points to 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars and 1 star.

For example:

5 stars = 2 points
4 stars = 1 point
3 stars = 0 points
2 stars = -1 point
1 star = -2 points

Thanks Guys!

digg.com for ubuntu users? Maybe, but like the earlier version of digg; voting on just the nodes(just the voting). Zen theme in new pajamas! nodes have slideshow of imagefield pics(http://ubuntuwatch.com/node/12), with rip-off of the background buttons for multiple pics, from the lullabots! sorry :P sorry to moshe too ;-) (but you have it in new avatar now ;)

I don't plan to commercialize/earn-from-it in any way, if someone of you thought, it was part of my fun times, playing and implementing with Drupal. It was ready since the oct of '07 but could get it online in dec month. And after all Thanks http://HCoop.net/ !

(i know there are poor way of implementations, hacky job on vote button(half rip-off from rubybaboon), and peekaboo bugs are treating me good for IE.., etc..)

No, it's not based on drigg, project from scratch, but I recommend it to anyone who plans to begin with drupal building a similar website. I'll try to publish the recipe in the near future, if time allows... :)

After all hobby projects don't get your skills rusted, what do you say?
http://ubuntuwatch.com/

With the Drupal 6 code freeze, it's time to crack down on some of the existing VotingAPI bugs and put together the battle plan for something that's been a long time coming: VotingAPI 2.0, for Drupal 6.

What will VotingAPI 2.0 offer? Nothing that can't already be done with some elbow-grease. The goal is not to dramatically expand what it does, but to streamline the APIs and make things work a bit smoother.

Hello,

I've just created a new karma module.
I am not entirely sure other people would be interested in it. It's well code, well commented, and it's about to be tested on a production server (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com).

Now... here is a (probably not comprehensive) list of features:

• Javascript voting; however, the module works 1000% even if the
  user doesn't have Javascript

• Abuse control. The module allows you to limit users on how many karma points
  they cna give, to a particular user or in general. The admin can also decide

It's been five weeks since the last update and a ton of progress has been made on Advanced Poll:

• Ported to Drupal 5.0 - all new development is occuring on the 5.0 branch
• Dynamically add or remove poll choices
• PostgreSQL support (additional testing needed)
• Start dates for polls
• Submit votes using Ajax
• List polls at /polls
• Cache voting results
• Add/remove individual users from Electoral List and a button to clear it entirely
• Allow votes to be reset
• Numerous bug fixes

Demo available at http://advpoll.ck37.com and additional discussion can go in the Advanced Poll working group. Please submit all bug reports and feature requests to the issue queue.

There's now a branched CVS version of VotingAPI for Drupal 5. Module developers interested in getting a head start on porting their voting modules can begin using it now -- it's fully functional, though for now Views integration has been pulled out. In addition, the Actions integration is now in a separate module that's still bundled. I'm working (again) on the UI for it and that should be coming within the next few weeks if all goes well.

A number of serious technical hurdles have always made VotingAPI/Views integration wonky: maintaining the .inc file as it currently stands would only increase confusion. I'm working on a better solution, as well as a potential patch for Views module if necessary. Once it's in place, I'll add votingapi_views.module to the DRUPAL-5 branch.