Re: Different criteria for voting

asdfweeee — 2008-09-28 23:25:48+0200

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Re: Different criteria for voting

echarp — 2006-10-13 20:14:36+0200

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:33:47AM +0200, shanghai wrote:

> The idea about using electoral lists is cool too!

It’s at the heart of the project, at the heart of any democratic
process.

> Probably though it is easier, at this first stage, just to have the chance to
> follow the votes of one other user.

Read more… / Lire plus…

As of now we just follow all and every votes. No distinction between
legitimate one and others.

But adding them is technically not that difficult, mostly a matter of
database fields. The trouble is management. How do you add or remove
someone from a list? How do you list participants?

> And adding more criteria should be quite easy: we duplicate the fields
> containing info about votes and rename them (letâ€™s say â€œintopicâ€ â€œsmartâ€ etc),
> we add the buttons to vote for each category for each post, the â€œfilterâ€ right
> menu and weâ€™ve got it!

Won’t be easy at all. You only have to look at SlashDot to see how a
mess in functionalities it has become.

Ultimately it’s a democratic system. Which happens to be implemented as
a forum. The goal is for everybody to vote according to a voting method.
Right now it’s approval voting.

> I canâ€™t still do it myself cause Iâ€™m having some troubles installing the
> software on my local apache.

Theoretically, you will only need ruby on rails, PostgreSQL, and
subversion. If you need help, or have a server with SSH access, I’ll be
happy to help!!!

Then we’ll be able to link our servers together.

> Salut, Dario-shanghai

Dario and shangai? Do that mean you are a man from many places? :)

echarp – http://leparlement.org

Different criteria for voting

shanghai — 2006-10-10 17:32:15+0200

Hi.

I think that it would be very smart if we would add the possibility to choose different criteria for voting (example: on topic, funny, smart, beautiful etc) on each message.

So, let’s suppose, if there’s someone writing jokes in the pages where there’s a serious discussion about something, we may give his messages a minus for the on-topicness, but maybe a plus if it is funny… so if someone wants to read something funny he can, but he can still avoid what he has no interest in (off-topic, example), every time he wants.

Thank you, and best compliments for you job!

Dario-Shanghai