| Community: Should Ask500People build a Facebook application so users could vote from their profiles? |
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Asked 4 years ago
by baccioly  Brazil |
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The Man that Does Not Know...
...but keeps trying!
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No. A certain amount of anonymity assist in being able to tell 'the truth'/be yourself
I totaly agree!
Good point!
Aaron? Are you taking notes?
This system let ordinary people make world-scale polls and it should be granted anonymity. Even if they are voting from inside their profiles.
Can it be done?
I hope I haven't go too far from the point you were making, MarketIngPro.
Best Regards,
Bruno Accioly
Adding a widget like object to your Facebook profile wouldn't break anonymity anymore than voting for questions while you are logged in does.
Well... I agree...
But even logged no one can see what was your vote, right?
Best Regards,
Bruno Accioly
True, but there's no reason to think a Facebook app would be any different. Its no different than what currently happens with people putting a widget on their blog.
A facebook app could pass back your identity, it's true, but the real benefits to having it there anyways would probably be that we'd be able to gather votes from *other* people seeing it on your profile page, and we wouldn't have their identity info (and in any case we don't publicly identify who voted for what).
Not to mention what could be done concurrently with the OpenSocial initiative...
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
There needs to be an HTML code that we can paste into websites where people can vote
There is, well in Javascript, are you asking for a pure html version?
How are community questions different from the others? And, what's a "widget"?
Community questions are only answered by people on the site, not people on the greater web. They only have 25 respondents instead of 100.
Questions that aren't community questions can be answered by anyone who clicks to answer them on websites where the Ask500People widget is installed.
A widget is a little plugin that people place on their blogs and websites. It allows website/blog authors to add options to their blogs. In this case it creates a box with the current polling question as well as the answers and users of the website can submit their answers to the questions posed on Ask500People.com
This information is available at http://www.ask500people.com/widgets
Thanks Shaudius!