VotingAPI helps developers who want to use a standardized API and schema for storing, retrieving, and tabulating votes for Drupal content.
Among other things, it supports:
Rating of any content (comments, nodes, users, fish, whatever)
9 m# N, e7 w0 _! _( IMulti-criteria voting (rate a game based on video, audio, and replayability)
2 ^) b5 w5 ^6 I1 P' f9 d' eAutomatic tabulation of results (with support for different voting styles, like 'percentage' and '+1/-1')
7 y% T4 y2 [( w& ~Efficient caching of results (sorting and filtering doesn't require any recalculation)- O. \7 C: |, c7 [3 G1 B
Hooks for additional vote calculations
Note that this module does NOT directly expose any voting mechanisms to end users. It's a framework designed to make life easier for other developers, and to standardize voting data for consumption by other modules (like Views).