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A suggestion to improve multiple voting polls

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Topic: A suggestion to improve multiple voting polls

Posted By: someone_else
Subject: A suggestion to improve multiple voting polls
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 02:51

Multiple voting polls are very prone to error or abuse because it is possible to vote for the same option more than once.

Therefore I want to give these suggestions:

Check boxes should be used instead of radio buttons in a multiple voting poll.
When the choices one wants to vote for have been checked, the "Cast your vote"-button should be clicked.
On later attempts to vote, the message "You have already voted in this poll" shuold appear, just as it is in single-vote polls.

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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 09:24

I'd like to see this.

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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 10:49

Good idea.

Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 13:20

someone_else wrote:

Check boxes should be used instead of radio buttons in a multiple voting poll.
When the choices one wants to vote for have been checked, the "Cast your vote"-button should be clicked.
On later attempts to vote, the message "You have already voted in this poll" shuold appear, just as it is in single-vote polls.

Or, alternatively, keep the radiobuttons but display that message for every option that was previously voted on by the user. I think this will make for simpler mechanics. If we go with checkboxes, when the user checks more than one box, he/she probably won't remember which option he/she voted for, which will make matters more confusing. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 13:25

Is there a way that the site can be programmed so that when a person votes for the same poll option multiple times in a multi-vote poll, a gigantic hand reaches out through the screen and slaps the person around?

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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 14:17

Dayvenkirq wrote:

If we go with checkboxes, when the user checks more than one box, he/she probably won't remember which option he/she voted for, which will make matters more confusing. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't see that - you can see all the checkboxes you've ticked until you click on the Vote button.

Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 14:26

chopper wrote:

I don't see that - you can see all the checkboxes you've ticked until you click on the Vote button.

Perhaps I didn't describe the scenario very well. What I meant was:

1st time:

v Checkbox 1

v Checkbox 2

o Checkbox 3

Some time passes, you probably forgot you voted on the poll or what you voted for, so you go again.

2nd time:

o Checkbox 1

v Checkbox 2

v Checkbox 3

What should the displayed message say now? "You've already voted for this option." Which one? The message could say "You've already voted option 2", so now you have to un-check it and vote again, with only option 3 checked.

All I'm saying is: we might want a less intricate solution. This improvement shouldn't take long, but I don't know how much M@X has on his plate.

Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 14:39

What I meant was this:

v Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5

v Welcome to the Machine

o Have a Cigar

o Wish You Were Here

v Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 6-9

So I have checked options #1, #2 and #5 in this example. Then I click on the "Cast My Vote(s)"-button and my three choices are submitted in one single throw (chopper understood what I intended). When I enter the poll afterwards, hoping to cast some more votes, the message "You have already voted in this poll" appears.

I think this will make the poll much more troll-proof.

The Doctor's slapping option would be a nice alternative, but it requires a USB-connected iron fist of which I sincerely doubt that an average troll would have connected such a device to his computer Evil Smile

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