On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 10:59:07 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
> Hi > 14 Oct 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SH> Questions: Do these web pages designed for the purpose of collecting > SH> opinions from the public usually have some kind of mechanism to > SH> collect only one vote per IP number per each site access on the same > SH> site? > usually yes > Think of how easy it is to submit tens of thousands of votes with a script. > (or more cleverly let the script look at the vote, and submit 'your' > oppinion so that it gets 80% of the votes ... looks better than 99% ;) > SH> Could anyone submit his own opinion multiple times for the same > SH> question on the same web site and by using the same computer during > SH> the same session and have each one of his votes counted as valid? > There is a *VERY* easy way to find out ! > Submit you oppinion twice, and see what happens !! Not so easy to find out. If I submit my vote twice I won't know if the incremented vote tally reflects my additional vote or whether it is the vote of some other person who may be accessing the same site at around the same time and submitting the same answer as mine. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
