Allow guests to vote on requests

6 responses to “Allow guests to vote on requests”

1. Andi101 says:

   June 16, 2020 at 3:15 am

   Hi,

   Users must obtain a quick&easy way to post a vote. Registering might be useful for certain cases, but most of them needs to be quick and simple.

   Hope you implement this soon.

   Thanks!

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2. Philipp S says:

   November 29, 2020 at 11:52 pm

   I think this is very difficult to implement and can easily distort the results. Users could vote on the same idea multiple times, or vote as a guest, then register and vote again (without a way to remove their guest vote again)?

   Tracking user votes is difficult as well: Usually, the visitor's IP address changes frequently and cookies can be cleared. Would need a solid way to remember, how often a guest voted. And also how many votes are remaining for a guest.

   One solution I think is possible is via email: The plugin asks for an email address without registering a new user account. Then sends a "confirm your vote" email to that address and so can track which email addresses did place a vote. As a side-effect, you could merge the guest votes into the user account, in case the user decides to register an account with that email address.

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3. Andi says:

   November 30, 2020 at 12:07 am

   This is a good option, not totally unregistered but still limiting to existing email addresses.

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4. Michael says:

   January 28, 2021 at 9:27 am

   I would like to see, that we are able to choose. In our project we could need a complet open solution. We need to be able, that everyone can vote on one machine. Yes, there is a wide open door to manipulate, - but, we are aware of this. So if all the suggestions could be done with a switch and if all is off a user can multi vote on one and the same computer, we would be really happy.

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5. mickna says:

   February 10, 2021 at 7:23 am

   Why not have the choice between:
   O Allow Guest to Vote
   O Allow multi times to vote

   So everyone has the choice. In our use case, we need the ability to vote multiple times. Therefore no fraud prevention at all.

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6. Tobias_Conrad says:

   April 21, 2021 at 12:53 pm

   I like this solution:
   One solution I think is possible is via email: The plugin asks for an email address without registering a new user account. Then sends a “confirm your vote” email to that address and so can track which email addresses did place a vote. As a side-effect, you could merge the guest votes into the user account, in case the user decides to register an account with that email address.

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