RELEASE: vBpoll hack version .0.1

Here is the first release of the vBpoll hack. It is still pretty rough aroung the edges, so I would appreciate some feedback. If you have any questions please post them here.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/vb.html

Like it said this could be done with mine without any problems (or modifications). BUT the more I think about it the less I like it. I think that 100's of polls on random topics would be confusing and even potentially somewhat annoying.

yeah, the poll is embedded in the thread, with replying available.

the reply canbe a poll won't be in my initial release, but I'll make sure it is not hard to do later.

you wouldn't be able to post a poll in any topic. you would have to start a topic as a poll. at least that's the way it would be set up ideally.

Delphi.com has that incorporated into their board right now.

I still think I like the idea of well thought-out, somewhat relavent, admin/moderator controlled polls. What happens when person A posts a poll, then person B posts a "How many people think poll 1 sucked" poll and so on down the line. I also don't really like the idea that there could be one thread with 47 polls.

Martin,
I was typing my response to doron and you snuck a reply in there
I wouldn't mind users being able to start a thread as a poll I guess. That would be EXTREMELY easy to do the way I have the script setup right now. Just make a link to vBpolladmin.php3?op=create and the user will be taken to the poll creation page.

[Edited by customcpu on 07-05-2000 at 04:23 PM]

as I said, I would limit the polls to be the first post of a thread and only regular replies allowed to comment on the poll.

as far as the "who thinks poll #1 sucked?" polls, isn't that what admin and mods are for?

One could easily add a "Can create poll" permission to the User Groups if need be.

I guess the reason I think that is the best way to do it is because it gives users a new toy. Users love toys. The more toys they have to play with, the happier they are, The happier they are, the more likely they are to stay

yep, the permissions thing is planned, as is a max # of polls per person per week or so, to stop people from going poll crazy (all this will be done via the control panel)

the poll as reply thing would be kinds useless, maybe a max 1 poll per thread or so.

you can already limit the number of options in the poll via the control panel on my current version, I just finished the check if you have voted or not.

putting the remarks on my todo list (tm)

This is just a test