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Hide reports section until users submits an answer #112

Closed winstonll closed 9 years ago

winstonll commented 9 years ago

I feel that one should not be able to see the answers before they submit their input, as otherwise the answers would be totally skewed.

However, one should be able to click "view answer" to see the graphs without being able to submit an answers, as that way people who only want to see results won't be forced to enter a (perhaps random) answer.

For example, see:

http://strawpoll.me/3989922

In addition, note that the way strawpoll does it is really nice, I think. If the url is

http://strawpoll.me/3989922/r

then this brings up the result page. Perhaps that's what we should do as well? This way if someone shares the poll, they would share http://strawpoll.me/3989922, whereas if someone is sharing the visualization only, then they share http://strawpoll.me/3989922/r. And of course there should be button where one could go from the report view to the answer view and vice versa.

The first part, hiding reports and the toggle, should be fairly easy, I think, and maybe can go with this milestone. The second part I am not sure.

ghost commented 9 years ago

I was always for hiding reports until answer, but I don't think the URL change makes sense for us. I think their reason for doing that is because not everyone will vote.

ghost commented 9 years ago

@rubsav since you were the initial one to show reports before answering, I'm assigning this to you now.

All you need to take care of is hiding the reports section (Country/City/Local toggles and the chart/legend) until the user answers the question.

winstonll commented 9 years ago

The same problem happens to us as well. Not everyone will vote on the question, but that does not mean they won't be interested in the question. For example, one could ask what is your favourite Apple product (in fact I think we have this question in our DB). I don't own any and I don't have a favourite product, but that doesn't necessarily mean I don't care what people think about Apple products. Without the toggle, people like me would simply just pick a random answer for the sake of seeing the report, and that's not really nice. You also don't want N/A or This Does Not Apply To Me to be part of every question.

At best, I think only 1/3 of the viewers (of a question) will vote (possibly far less). This is inevitable. Therefore, it's probably better to keep the toggle on. The link has some value as well; 1) it makes sharing to /r/dataisbeautiful (or similar places) easy, and 2) it makes others' lives easier if they want to include a link of our results on a project or on their website; you can't always expect people to vote before they see the answer. What do you guys think?

winstonll commented 9 years ago

And eventually, this becomes important when people are able to embed our reports. Sometimes people want to embed the survey (e.g. you're a gaming site and you want to put a poll on your site to interact with your visitors), and sometimes people wan to embed the report (e.g. you are Toronto Star and you want to use our DV for a report). Obviously in the Torstar case you don't want to force people to answer the question before showing them the content.

Link isn't extremely urgent atm, because we won't need it for a while. But I think the toggle is important.

ghost commented 9 years ago

That's true... Alright I'll make a /report URL another task, and leave this task with hiding reports as usual.