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Move the voting options to the left of the comment header
Just something you may try in order to make people comment more. I think the main people don't use this function is because they do not see it, as it's as far from the content as possible. People generally first see the username (if at all) and then the comment but rarely will their eyes travel all the way to the right-most end of the header to notice the voting option.
I'd like to suggest that you move the voting options to the left, just next to the avatar and give it a true up/down look (ie vote up button is over the vote down button) similar to how reddit does it. I suggest reddit because its voting system is surprisingly popular and used quite a bit for a lot of benefit. Learn from success and all that ;)
I'd like to suggest that you move the voting options to the left, just next to the avatar and give it a true up/down look (ie vote up button is over the vote down button) similar to how reddit does it. I suggest reddit because its voting system is surprisingly popular and used quite a bit for a lot of benefit. Learn from success and all that ;)
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Inappropriate?This is an interesting idea, and one worth testing/checking out.
As an experiment, I put the following CSS code in the footer.php of my theme and it (quite roughly) moves the voting elements over to the left of the "header" of each comment (next to the user's avatar). Might be worth a shot just to see if it increases your number of votes?
<style type="text/css">
#idc-container .idc-v .idc-v-total { float: right !important; }
#idc-container .idc-v { float: left !important; }
</style>
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Thanks, I'll give that a go :) -
Ok, It worked when put in the footer (but not when put in the stylesheet because you've marked the alignment of the voting buttons as !important in the default stylesheet as well (is this necessary?)
Will let you know how this goes -
I'm trying to modify the styling so that the voting buttons appear one under the other but I can't seem to manage it (my css is not very good). If you can think of a quick styling fix like the one you provided above, I'd appreciate it.
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Inappropriate?Try this out db0:
<style type="text/css">
#idc-container .idc-v .idc-v-total { float: right !important; }
#idc-container .idc-v { float: left !important; }
#idc-container .idc-v a.idc-v-up { display: block; position: relative; top: -6px; }
#idc-container .idc-v a.idc-v-down { display: block; clear: left !important; position: relative; top: -6px; }
</style>
They don't *quite* fit in the colored bar when they're positioned like that (without some overlap), so I've opted to put them where they are to make them easier to see. You can move them around a bit by playing with the top: values there.
I've only tested this in Firefox, no idea what sort of explosion it'll cause in any other browser, use at your own risk ;)
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Thanks matey! That is good enough for now :)
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No problem! I'll be interested to hear if you notice an increase in the amount of voting going on at your site.
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Sure, I'll keep you posted
