Currently, by default, when going to Link Details, the voting dropdown is set to one of the vote values (in my case, 5). However, I think people are clicking the vote button before selecting a vote value, or spiders/scripts/etc are automatically causing the submit button to be pressed, and thus giving that link a 5 vote.
I went into my details.tpl and changed my voting so it looks like this:
Now it has "Choose Rating" as a default, and when someone clicks to vote, it won't add a vote. However, it still acts as if the person who clicked voted.
My question is, is there a better way to do this? Maybe javascript so that we could get rid of the Submit button altogether, or some code/template change so that someone clicking submit on the default Choose Rating option doesn't act as if they already voted for that link?
Now when I vote, it always counts it (changes both the rating and # of votes), even when I don't choose a value to vote on, and it still lets me vote as much as I want.
Before, it let me vote once and didn't count the vote.
I want it just how it is originally, except that if they don't choose a vote (they click submit on the "Choose a Vote" selection), it won't do anything and will allow them to vote again until they pick a correct value. Right now if they accidently click vote when it's not on a vote value, they can't vote again.
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Currently, by default, when going to Link Details, the voting dropdown is set to one of the vote values (in my case, 5). However, I think people are clicking the vote button before selecting a vote value, or spiders/scripts/etc are automatically causing the submit button to be pressed, and thus giving that link a 5 vote.
I went into my details.tpl and changed my voting so it looks like this:
Now it has "Choose Rating" as a default, and when someone clicks to vote, it won't add a vote. However, it still acts as if the person who clicked voted.
My question is, is there a better way to do this? Maybe javascript so that we could get rid of the Submit button altogether, or some code/template change so that someone clicking submit on the default Choose Rating option doesn't act as if they already voted for that link?
Adam
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To get it to not count it as a vote, open vote.php and move from its current location up to just below (applied for future versions)
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Nope, that didn't work.
Now when I vote, it always counts it (changes both the rating and # of votes), even when I don't choose a value to vote on, and it still lets me vote as much as I want.
Before, it let me vote once and didn't count the vote.
I want it just how it is originally, except that if they don't choose a vote (they click submit on the "Choose a Vote" selection), it won't do anything and will allow them to vote again until they pick a correct value. Right now if they accidently click vote when it's not on a vote value, they can't vote again.
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Works for me (still says vote was counted, but it doesn't actually count it or prevent voting again). Maybe 3.16 is different.