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Random User Votes


  • Holger [profile]
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  • Posted 3 months ago #

I would like to make a new nominate site look more active in the early stage to make it more attractive to users.

I am thinking of a feature to produce random votes from selected users:

1.Checkbox to "enable random votes".
2.Select comma seperated (existing) user profiles by username which vote randomly. For example "mike, tom, chris, melissa, susan"
3. Select to random vote all new users storys or just new storys from again comma seperated (existing) user profiles by username (doensn't have to be the same users like the voters) like "chris, susan, michaek, christof", so it doesn't look strange if someone submits a new story and gets instant votes right after story is published :)
4. select random vote count between x and y. For example between 0 and 7.

Hope it came out clear what the idea is about this feature. Pligg had a similar feature which helps to gain activity when there are't yet many users registered.

What do you think Ben? Can you integrate such a Random User Votes Feature in Nominate?

Best Regards

Hey Holger - I quite like this idea. I would certainly consider doing something like this in the future. I imagine this would be best served as a plugin rather than an addition to the theme as it's not something everyone would want to use.

I'd need to spend some time thinking about how it would work technically as well.

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