Re: basic voting

on 12/09/02 12:12 AM, David Buerer (david@pladesigns.com) wrote: > Justin, you've just asked for a way to restrict the possible number of votes > from any one person to 1, however, you don't want to find out anything about > that person! I'd consider that a restriction to getting lots of votes in a quick manner... :) > Although I certainly understand your position, you either have to get from > them some information specific to the person, like, name, email, DL, SSN, > and only allow one vote entry per id, or you have track based on cookie, ip > address, etc. A simple non-obtrusive way would be to track by IP, but then > you've got the problem of users behind proxies, or multiple users at one > computer, or ???? IP address' aren't an option. > You pretty much have to ask for something like email or name, or be willing > to accept multiple votes from the same person. There's NOTHING to stop me from entering 24 different names or email address', so I don't consider these options either. > Sorry. It's not your fault :) Justin French