The real question is, when it comes to these things, how do you secure such an application so that there is no cheating? It may well be that CFDJ's new system of having previous subscribers count as two is to offset people who log in multiple times to stack their score. This may be a good community project: How do you secure such a contest.
If you go to the CFDJ site, you can log in as many times as you want with as many email addresses as you want, and it doesn't even check if you have a valid email address. Maybe it checks the validity of the email address when the person actually submits their vote, but there's no way of knowing that except to test it. Michael, being the evil soul that he is, could write up a fast application that would randomly log onto the site, fill in all the proper information, randomly vote for things that don't matter, and always vote for the one thing he is focused on. It would take him -- what? 3 seconds? Maybe for someone more innocent, it will take them as much as a minute. But of course Michael wouldn't do that, as he has morals. (Hopefully, everyone on this list has morals and will not take this as a challenge. Anyone who thinks about it must face the whip!) Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Randolph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:43 AM Subject: Re: CFDJ Heaviest Advertiser awards... > Hello Judith, > > Blue Dragon is just is in the wrong category and/or it should be competing > with CFMX and we'll put our application into the Most Innovative ColdFusion > SERVER category. Because even though we've had some issues with our new > product and CFMX. Our new product is very Innovative and leverages CFMX > (Java lifting, CF displaying) better than any current product out currently > not made by Macromedia. IMO... I can't be humble about our new product...sorry. > > Kind Regards, > Mike Randolph ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
