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Allow guests to vote on requests
Allow guest users to vote on feature requests.
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Andi101 says: 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!
Philipp S says: 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.
Andi says: This is a good option, not totally unregistered but still limiting to existing email addresses.
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!
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.
This is a good option, not totally unregistered but still limiting to existing email addresses.