voting-examples

Voting Examples

There has been a good bit of discussion relating to how to represent the intent of a link from one site to another as an endorsement of that site or not. See Kevin Marks on voting (Vote Links) for initial arguments for a way to represent this information.

This page serves to document the current list of voting examples from real world sites for the design of a simple voting microformat. - Steve Ivy

Contributors

• Steve Ivy

See Also

• When is a link an endorsement? - Nathan Ashby-Kuhlman
• Anti-links - linking to things you disagree with and saying so - Kevin Marks
• Vote Links - Kevin Marks
• PageRank is Dead - Jeremy Zawodny
• vote-links

Examples on the Web

Centralized Implementations

• Digg - Digg is essentially a centralized voting system for links. Digg users can "digg" (vote-for) a link, or "bury" (vote-against) it. Links with more diggs float to the top of the popular lists, hence getting more exposure and getting more diggs/votes for and against.
• Urban Dictionary - dictionary of colloquialisms where users can vote up or down (for/against) terms in the dictionary.
• Google's PageRank - "In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B."
• Slashdot - users can give comments a karma score which affects what comments are seen (comments can be filtered based on the score)

Vote Links

There are a few implementations based on the VoteLinks microformat combined with other technologies:

• Distributed votings using microformats from Artweb Design
• Boost Your Hyperlink Power - Jeremy Keith, using CSS to surface vote information
• VoteBack - VoteLink discovery + pingback/trackback