How to allow guests to vote in Poll?

[Jamer]

How can I allow guests to vote in Polls? This is clearly a permission thing but I am stumped any help would be appreciated  

[Adriano Faria]

Nope, not possible. At least, it wasn’t on 4.3/4... not sure on 4.5.

I may be wrong though. 

[Claudia999]

It’s not possible also on 4.5. 😕

[Jamer]

1 hour ago, Adriano Faria said:

Nope, not possible. At least, it wasn’t on 4.3/4... not sure on 4.5.

I may be wrong though. 

This is a feature we really need then. People will not want to register in order to cast a vote in a poll. 

[Davyc]

I agree that this is something that would be great, however it comes with a number of caveats.  For example:

How do you know which guest has voted?

How can you stop this guest from voting again?

If this could be achieved by using a cookie, what's to prevent that guest from clearing their cookies and vote again, and again and again?

With members this is easily achieved as you know who the members are, but with guests not so easy because everyone is a guest until they register.  It would be very easy to circumvent and could lead to your poll results being skewed.  A member could vote, sign out and then vote again as a guest.

I've often thought about this myself and it would be good if guests could vote and rate but the big issue comes as to how you control that input.  So in principle I agree with your request, but in the cold light of day it doesn't look feasible 🙂

 

[Claudia999]

8 minutes ago, Davyc said:

How do you know which guest has voted? How can you stop this guest from voting again?

I was using this WordPress Plugin. Limitations for guests were Cookies and IP.

[Adriano Faria]

1 hour ago, Claudia999 said:

I was using this WordPress Plugin. Limitations for guests were Cookies and IP.

Which will take 10 seconds to workaround and vote again. 

[Miss_B]

1 hour ago, Claudia999 said:

I was using this WordPress Plugin. Limitations for guests were Cookies and IP.

As mentioned above, both limitions are very easy to bypass. That being said, there is a way to see which guest voted more than twice even if they changed their ips or cleared their cookies. That is by generating an unique hash and associate it with a device each time a guest votes.  Then you can perform a conditional check to allow only one vote for device for guests. But it is not 100% foolproof as more than a user/guest can use the same device though. 

[Adriano Faria]

1 minute ago, Miss_B said:

That is by generating an unique hash and associate it with a device each time a guest votes

If you mean the device stuff used on IPS4, it also uses cookies. Even if it isn’t, same person can vote more than once (PC, notebook, tablet, cell phone, etc.).

[Miss_B]

11 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

If you mean the device stuff used on IPS4, it also uses cookies. Even if it isn’t, same person can vote more than once (PC, notebook, tablet, cell phone, etc.).

Yes, that is correct. Hence why I said that it is not 100% foolproof.