Re: basic voting

From: 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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