I'm planning to create a voting page, where users can vote on different ideas or suggestions. I think for my situation it will be best to use a Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down type voting system. Can anyone explain how these work? Do they use division, average, etc?

Thanks

From what i know a voting system like that doesn't use any math... simply displays a stat. If user hits Up, the stat is updated by adding one unit, if hits Down then stat is substracted by one.

Originally Posted by johnny.dacu

From what i know a voting system like that doesn't use any math... simply displays a stat. If user hits Up, the stat is updated by adding one unit, if hits Down then stat is substracted by one.

When I was at school adding or subtracting WAS using maths.

Originally Posted by Smudly

I'm planning to create a voting page, where users can vote on different ideas or suggestions. I think for my situation it will be best to use a Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down type voting system. Can anyone explain how these work? Do they use division, average, etc?

Thanks

Normally a "thumbs up" would add an arbitrary figure to the "for" score, nominally 1 but you could use any incremental value that you wish, and "thumbs down" add the same value to the "against" scrore.
You then compare the "for" to the "against" and see which is higher.



You know, fundemental principles "I've got more marbles than you have"

You know, I can't quite believe that I just explained

1+1 = 2

and

1+1+1 = 3

therefore 3 is more than 2

Your very clever Chris, that's why we all are so proud of you