jason257 Posted March 12, 2009 Report Posted March 12, 2009 Hi there, i was in midst of starting new site and in that i wanted to put voting feature , something like http://Digg. So i was wondering that how does digg stores information about which user voted to which link and then not allowing them to vote again. One option could be to create a vote table then store link-id and member-id in this table. Now when any user tries to vote again this table is checked for entry and then accordingly user is allowed or not. But this method's major flaw(according to me) is that it would be pretty large table e.g if there are 1k articles and each has approx 10 votes. Then there would be 1k*10=10k, and seeing size of digg where there is around 250k links in 24hrs and based on 10 votes theory there would be 2,500,000 entries added each day. Quote
falkencreative Posted March 12, 2009 Report Posted March 12, 2009 I'm not sure how they do that... the Digg team would have to explain that themselves. You may want to look at one of the many digg clones (http://mashable.com/2008/03/28/create-digg-clone/) and take a look at the source code and see how one of the clones handle it. I don't know that they will do things the same way that Digg does, but it may give you some ideas. Quote
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