Re: basic voting
| From: | Adam Williams | Date: | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:24:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: basic voting | ||
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Most sites log by IP but if its the IP of a firewall, it would only be one
vote from everyone behind the firewall.
Adam
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Justin French wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to implement very basic like it | hate it voting for a product
> on a site, but I'd like to implement some simple (or not so simple) ways of
> ensuring people don't vote over and over and over.
>
> 1. I could set a cookie. Sure, they could delete the cookie and re-vote
> though, and those without cookies will be able to repeat vote.
>
> 2. To prevent automated voting, I can make sure that the votes are POSTed,
> not done through GET, but if people really wanted, they could still get
> around it.
>
> 3. I can restrict voting to logged in members, but I don't think I want to
> be that restrictive.
>
>
> Am I missing something obvious? Or do you just use a combo of 1 + 2???
>
>
> Justin French
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