Guest voting in polls
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akhilaniyan
Active member
I'm supporting this. This is a needed feature in xenforo.
Gladius
Well-known member
Reposting here:
Coming from vB where we also included forum polls on our site pages for more exposure and allowed everyone to vote, we've had hundreds of votes in every poll. After moving to XF, where only registered users can vote in polls, our polls fell into complete disuse as so few people are voting on them now that it's not worth creating them. As with many communities, the majority of our user base is passive readers and users of our content and as such not registered on our forums and consequently ineligible to vote in the polls.
I understand that not requiring registration for voting on the polls can mean that a certain number of votes might not be legitimate, but I also believe that with the far larger accessibility of the polls to all of our site's visitors this would be self-corrected to a large degree. None of our polls are deciding on Brexit, so accessibility is of far more importance to us.
So could we get the option to allow unregistered poll votes too, please? Anyone who doesn't want it can just keep requiring registration to vote.
Coming from vB where we also included forum polls on our site pages for more exposure and allowed everyone to vote, we've had hundreds of votes in every poll. After moving to XF, where only registered users can vote in polls, our polls fell into complete disuse as so few people are voting on them now that it's not worth creating them. As with many communities, the majority of our user base is passive readers and users of our content and as such not registered on our forums and consequently ineligible to vote in the polls.
I understand that not requiring registration for voting on the polls can mean that a certain number of votes might not be legitimate, but I also believe that with the far larger accessibility of the polls to all of our site's visitors this would be self-corrected to a large degree. None of our polls are deciding on Brexit, so accessibility is of far more importance to us.
So could we get the option to allow unregistered poll votes too, please? Anyone who doesn't want it can just keep requiring registration to vote.
pipin
Member
Thats nice to know, too. Would be nice to have this as a tooltip.
Sven Kunert
Member
Ah, I came to see if I actually made a bad permission somewhere. Why even have the option in the permissions to let guests vote on polls when it actually doesn't work? I would love to have guests vote on polls. I run an art forum, so it would be really helpful if we could get some outside input on contests.
Because the permissions also apply to registered users who have not confirmed their account, hence why the group name is Unregistered / Unconfirmed.
Sven Kunert
Member
It seems that if they are both in the same group, then they should have the same permissions. If unconfirmed members can vote, then I don't see why guests can't.
Sven Kunert
Member
I have seen forums (an old one that I used to have before xenforo) that allow voting based on cookies for guests. I know that could result in "cheating" or something of the such. I guess it's not a huge deal, but it would be nice to have as an option.
KensonPlays
Well-known member
Couldn't this be achieved by connecting their vote to their IP address for guests? I'd like to use polls on my site but I can't unless they're a member. So I'm back to square one of using polls elsewhere like on Twitter or Discord instead of using my XF site.
Will Franco
Active member
I'm glad I found this thread. I had set the permissions correctly, yet I couldn't understand why guests couldn't vote on polls. It wasn't working for the guest user group.
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