voting-examples

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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

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: