Ratings System Bug Report

[SteveTidball]

Bug Fix - Voting appears even after voting

Issue

Vote screen persists even after the user has voted. Votes have been lodged but the display of the vote screen on reload gives he impression that no action has been taken.

Resolution

Data has been submitted, the vote number progresses by one. The intended result is that if a user has submitted ratings the results page would display. How the code is expecting that to happen seems to change user to user, as this is a client side verification (possibly via cookies).

The simplest solution is to always start at the results screen and allow the user to navigate to the vote screen, this would not require verification on page load. The verification process for duplicate voting currently works and only happens on refresh of the page (maybe it’s a timing issue?)

Fix

Changed code to default to the RESULTS page on load. The user can then navagate to the vote page and submit ratings.

Additional Notes

Kevin noted that he only voted for 10 players. Although it was intended that ALL players would be rated, but is understandable that they may not wish to apply any score. Right now that defaults to 0 and skews averages. Maybe adding an option to omit that player from the submission would be fairer. This may need addressing before Round 1.

Reports of Bug

@mrwalker

When I pressed VOTE the numbers showing for each player changed to be I assume the average rating number of the 3 voters thus far.
When I went back into the thread, all the numbers had disappeared on it now showed that no votes had been cast (was 3).

@Kevin

Same - I only rated 10 players but each got an average for all with different color fill, then when you go back in it appears no vote has been entered.