Vote Counts are not Voter Counts

  • Very nice plugin, but when voters are allowed to make multiple votes, the vote count should increment by one and not by the number of votes cast by that one voter.

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  • Plugin Author Timur Kamaev

    (@tkama)

    How it can be possible? Example, visitor vote for two variants and in which one the plugin should add vote? And what about the other, it won’t get +1? It will be vote for one answer but not two, not multimple…

    Thread Starter wla

    (@wla)

    Where the visitor is allowed to select more than one of the answers, the plugin should record it as one vote/one visitor. It should be easy enough to set a flag so that only the first selection in a multiple choice counts as +1 vote. If the visitor then selects another answer to the same question, the flag will already be set, so the second and subsequent answers will not be counted — as it is still the same visitor.

    Plugin Author Timur Kamaev

    (@tkama)

    I don’t understand what are you talking about. It can’t be done, because if I write only one +1 in multiple answers when user checked many answers it will be vote for only one answer not two, three…

    Maybe you confuse count of votes of poll and count of users which has voted for poll. Of course it’s different counts.

    Thread Starter wla

    (@wla)

    There are actually three possible counts:
    1. The number of unique individual voters
    2. The number of times a particular question has been answered (some voters may not answer all questions, so this may vary from question to question)
    3. The total number of votes cast for a particular question, including multiples where a question allows it.

    #3 is the count that is displayed by the plugin and, in my opinion, this is the LEAST useful of the three counts.

    However, I don’t intend to criticize the plugin, which works extremely well. I only offer the above as a suggestion for improvement.

    Appreciate the analysis.

    However, if I like both oranges and apples equally, both get one vote each from one individual.

    The fact that multiple choices can be made renders redundant the vote per person attribute.
    The person does not remain important any longer.
    The popularity of a particular option does.

    Therefore, in my example, it is perfectly valid to count both oranges and apples voted up by one vote each. This could even lead to a tie if enough number of voters decided they liked both fruits equally.

    It is illogical to assume that if I happened to select oranges first, my selection for apples is diminished in value.

    Sorry for butting in … ??

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