I run a members only WP site assemblytacoma.org that is a participatory democracy. I am the world’s worst software person but have managed to employ a wp table to relate user ID, post ID, and score and to present posts in “rated”/ “score” order while displaying the score. I also display all the ballots such that all members can see their ballot in the box as well as all other ballots. Anonymity depends on the members. If they want anonymity they select a login ID that is nothing like their real name. The voting/scoring mechanism/navigation is a real mess and I would like for a member to be able to select a post, view it, and rate it, recording that rating ON THE MEMBER’S BALLOT (each member has a ballot via the previously described table and each member can change their ratings at any time and display the current results and ballots).
Is it rational to try to (ab)use this WP_POLL plugin to make my system more user friendly? You can log in to assemblytacoma.org as user demo with password demo to see what I am talking about if that helps. You can’t create posts as demo but you can rate stuff. those ratings are wiped every day. The demo account will soon be closed.
