[thesite] voting for articles

[Dean Mah]

My personal opinion is that you want people to login to lend some
credibility and responsibility to the ratings and the comments.  I
think we all want good quality ratings and comments and not to get the
/. "anonymous coward" type troll postings.  Allowing you to login, I
think, allows you to change your rating and your comments in case you
change your mind later.

I don't think your thelist name and password will work on
www.evolt.org.  The appications are separate, and as far as I know,
the user account information is stored in two totally different ways.

At one point, I think we did sync them manually but it is not an
on-going process.  Perhaps one that should be re-visited.

What do other people think of anonymous ratings and comments?  Would
this problem be a non-problem if thelist account information was the
same as the www.evolt.org account?

Dean


Richard Bennett writes:

> As I noticed you wanted a little more feedback on the articles
> advertised under "headlines" (a good idea BTW) I decided to vote -
> good or bad - when a new article arrived.
> I was - so far  - not successful.
> The process seems unnecessarily complicated.
>
> Why do I have to login?
> Scared of people cheating?
>
> Does my normal "theList" name and password not work here? (it
> doesn't seem too) if not - why not?
>
> Presuming it does work, the "There was an error logging you into
> evolt. ..."  page doesn't work.
> 
> I know you want to take this seriously, but it would be seriously
> refreshing to be able to leave a comment, vote etc, without the need
> to get a password and login - there's too much of that already.