Implementing a voting system without requiring registration

Question

I\'d like to implement a voting system on my site, without having to force them to create an account. They would ultimately be voting up/down a piece of content which has a

Answer 1

I'm thinking the same problem right now. my possible approaches will be as follows:

• (A) you can accept votes from those people who were in your site (using SESSIONS) for at least 15 minutes (it can be approximate time for a user to read an article in a blog/site). when they vote, the timer will reset for the next vote. so this way, there is no use deleting the cookies anymore for users.

• (B) you can accept votes from unregistered people and taking their email address and sending them a verification link to their vote. when they click the verification link in their email box, then you can actually count the vote. it's like voting per email address.

• (C) combination of (A) and (B). this way you can be sure you will be sending verification links only every 15 minutes to a single user which will not be a lot :)