Following up on:
voting api: http://drupal.org/node/59638
advpoll: http://drupal.org/node/105584
I have a use case where a client wants multiple people at a house party or other event to be able to vote through advpoll on a poll question. Likely this will be a shared IP situation, with either one computer or multiple computers through one NAT box. It is tedious to create a new user account for each of these voters. SO, we have a scenario where multiple anonymous votes per IP address (hostname) are desirable. Implications for integrity of the poll results are obviously, so this should be optional behavior.
Advpoll, in a poll where multiple options are ranked, enters each ranking as a separate vote using votingapi_set_vote, then later reassembles them based on UID or hostname into single ballots for counting purposes. So, I can't treat each row in the votingapi_vote table as a separate voter.
Do you have any thoughts on how to approach this? The "quickest" way to extend to this functionality seems to be appending a timestamp suffix (or something similar) to the IP address for the hostname column. Sorting by hostname could then be done as usual, except some IP addresses won't be regular IP addresses. It becomes more of a "unique identifier other than UID" column.
Right now neither votingapi_set_vote() or votingapi_add_vote() accept an incoming value for hostname. votingapi_add_vote() generates its own value. This is appropriate and good for most use cases, but not in mine.
Does it make sense to simply change voting_api_set_vote() and votingapi_add_vote() to accept an incoming value for hostname? Are there negative implications I might not be considering?
Thanks!
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I opened a MR and added the changes from the last patch. I renamed Anonymous vote restrictions (anonymous_vote_restrictions) to Anonymous vote differentiation (anonymous_differentiation) and added a third option, One vote per cookie, as suggested by @RumyanaRuseva in #7.