"are you sure?" when overwriting a vote

[judytuna]

If a user already has a vote of weight 3, and they try to vote for another entry using a weight of 3, pop up a :confirm that clarifies that if they go through with the new vote of weight 3, the old one will be lost.

If they go through with it, maybe think about displaying a link to the old entry, so that they can click on it immediately (presumably to assign it another value, since they're adjusting what they want to vote for) instead of going back to the gallery pages and looking for it again.

(Alternatively, make a new UI that has you select up to three entries, and then assign vote weights between them ajaxly. Actually that sounds terrible and complicated, and if you changed your mind and wanted to vote for a different entry than one of the ones in your top 3, we'd have to come up with a UI where you chose which of your old top 3 you wanted to punt in favor of the new one... never mind)

[petersont]

The real problem with the current UI is that it isn't obvious what will happen when you click the vote button. The ideal solution would be to make the UI more clear. Adding a confirmation dialog is only attractive if it's really easy, but I don't think it is. I'd rather do something like what you suggested "(Aternatively...". We just have to figure out a way to do it without going mad with featurecreep?

Idea 1:
Remove the unvote form.
Make the vote_info partial display buttons for each slot that say unvote.
Forbid the user from voting for a slot that's already filled.

Idea 2:
Move voting to the index page.
Make three little buttons on each thumbnail to vote for that entry, then the user can see the vote disappearing from the other entry, or at least they can if the other entry's thumbnail is currently visible.

Idea 3:
In entry/show, there is a single button that says vote (or unvote), and when you click on that button it brings up (or modifies) the vote info box ajaxily, then in the voting info box, there are buttons to select which slot you want to vote that entry for, it could read like this:

Vote for this entry...

for 3 points

for 2 points (replacing existing 2-point vote)

for 1 point

Where each one of those is a link and when you click that it calls submit() the form...

[petersont]

Oops accidentally closed the issue, reopening.