Like Digg, but local.

October 9, 2009 6:58 AM

Recommendations on Digg-like voting software (or website)?

I'm trying to put together a work project, and I'd like to solicit staff for ideas and then let every one vote on the ideas. The key being that I'd like to set it up and let it run on it's own for a while. If it had a comment component to allow people to refine and discuss the idea, that would rock!

Maybe it's a plugin to wordpress or something, or a standalone script that I can install or maybe it's just a web site that will let me do this.

I swear I've seen something like this before and I wish I'd bookmarked it, but it is lost down the mind-drain.

Ideas? Thoughts? Dance moves?

Thanks!

posted by rev- to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Here's one:

http://www.drigg-code.org/

Drupal's a generally good PHP-based CMS with great flexibility. It's the kind of foundation you can build a Digg-type site from, and it looks like people already have.

Word of warning, though. If you're not already pretty handy with PHP, Drupal has one of the steeper learning curves out of the various leading CMS platforms.
posted by godawful at 7:26 AM on October 9, 2009

Pligg is the opensource digg style CMS
posted by bitdamaged at 7:27 AM on October 9, 2009

Slashdot and Reddit also have open-sourced their own engines.
posted by rokusan at 7:33 AM on October 9, 2009

Google Moderator is designed for exactly this. We use it at work for this and other purposes and it works great. So does Obama, IIRC.

(full disclosure: I work at Google.)
posted by goingonit at 7:37 AM on October 9, 2009

we've used Pligg for this, and it worked well.
posted by jrishel at 9:59 AM on October 9, 2009