Oh yeah, there's no way to be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that all votes are unique. The IP address was just to minimize multiple votes which I'm still sure it would do in most cases.
You'd have to consider the people who would vote more than once to stack the votes for one browser. Who are they? To what extent would they go to stack the votes and how smart would they actually be. Using IE to vote for FF... most cases those would be people who heard someone else that they consider to be 'smart' say that FF was a better browser... so now they are going to say it... rather they use it or not. Most of them probably aren't clever enough to even get around the cookies to be honest. Voting for IE while using FF. Those are probably just people playing around and/or people who just want to see if they can thwart your 'security' and vote more than once. No, I'm not a psychologist; I just play one on the internet. Me voting for IE and Mozilla using FF was just pointing out that the results were stacked and pointless. I mean hell Mozilla has 0 where Opera has more than ONE! Heh I'm sure you know these results aren't the final answer to the question of which browser is better or even more popular. But it's a good test question for a nice poll (with nice graphical results). So try out the IPs for a bit and see what happens. So when you do get a good question in there, (like 'What is the meaning of life?'... which is 42 by the way... heh) you can be a little more satisfied with the results knowing that they aren't AS stacked as they COULD have been. Man... did I just say all that? ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -----Original Message----- From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats) > From: Bobby Hartsfield > > > Thank's for telling me, now I can go delete all your votes! ;) > > Yeah, Wouldn't want to compensate for all the loaded votes > and even anything > out... Given that... maybe you should just delete ALL votes now ;-) Since I'd have to manually delete your votes from my DB, which I've done before when a guy voted for IE about 20 times, I probably won't delete yours. I'm too lazy! :) I need to build a 'delete vote' function... > If that's too much work for a browser war poll (I'd have to > say that it is) > then just store the IP address with the vote and check for > those. That would > take care of the majority of any multiple votes and slow the > rest way down. The IP address wouldn't work because a LOT of people are behind proxies and/or ISPs that use one IP for entire regions. But I've considered combining the IP with the user agent (I already store both), and throw out votes where both match a previous vote. It /would/ stop a rare legitimate vote, but the trade off would be worth it. --------------- This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. A1. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228868 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
