Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Champaign, IL
Posts: 362

Yeah but the vote only gets counted once per IP address. If they vote again from the same IP, the vote doesn't actually get added in. In some cases, such as with AOL users, they can vote a lot of times because of the dynamic IP nature of AOL. There's not much I can do about that.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Somewhere in Germany ;)
Posts: 1625

COOOOOOOOOOOOOKIES!

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Champaign, IL
Posts: 362

um.. how is that any more effective. Its easy to delete cookies.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Terrapin Station
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that's the ONLY good thing about AOL, ever changing IP numbers

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People can vote twice, three times, ten billion times. As much as they want.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Champaign, IL
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I think if people know how to delete a cookie they are just as likely to know that they could vote repeatedly on a dynamic IP ISP.

Either way, someone can vote repeatedly. This way there's only a select few. With cookies, everyone can.

[This message has been edited by WildWolf (edited 09-30-2000).]

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Somewhere in Germany ;)
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quote:

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Originally posted by WildWolf:
um.. how is that any more effective. Its easy to delete cookies.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Somewhere in Germany ;)
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Can´t you combine them?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Apple Valley, MN
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Yeah.. we could... I know the VWatch Archives uses a User Login system, plus IP tracking, plus cookies to watch for mission review spam.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Champaign, IL
Posts: 362

All that isn't worth it. Its not worth tracking cookies _and_ IP, when the people on a dynamic IP system can repeatedly vote by deleting cookies. Yay.. all that work and we've done absolutely nothing.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: at a computer. somewhere.
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There is a small difference in the level of security between the poll scripts and Archive review scripts though.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Somewhere in Germany ;)
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Yea, the archives are more important.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Somewhere
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I'm sorry! I confess! I voted twice on two school PCs! I'll NEVER DO IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!



Oh wait, never mind...wrong website...
uh...(whistles)...nothing.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Somewhere in Germany ;)
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Would you mind if I call you "Dopefish" ?

(What am I saying, I did it all the time)

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Somewhere
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Yeah, you do anyway, it's whatever. Or just 'Alpha', it's shorter, most people do that.

Things not to do:
"Killah!" or "Killer" or ... for some reason AlphaKiller (capitalized K) irks me.

whee!

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Earth
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I think that anyone who really respects this site at all would only vote once. Anyone who didn't respect it wouldn't come back to vote again. Heh , its only a poll too...Just pure fun .. Its not like we're voteing on the president of the US , but I understand your concerns

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Earth
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WOW I had 3 posts on this topic. OLD

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Location: Somewhere in Germany ;)
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I´m American bad ass, watch me kids...

well: w00t!

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