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Re: New Poll
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:39:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> > I did too :) You are only supposed to vote for one option, one time.
> > Someone from 207.172.11.233 doesn't understand that so their many
> > votes were deleted and they can't vote anymore :(
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> That may have been me -- I'm getting a 403 error there now.
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> It didn't say anywhere that the user was expected to cast only one vote, and
> it didn't try to throw away duplicates if I clicked different options or hit
> reload a few times.
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> How about adding a note on the vote results screen saying that by casting
> a vote, you (the user) agree to vote at most once per poll? That would have
> stopped me from stuffing.
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> --Todd
You mean it recorded additional votes by hitting reload (without exiting
browser or clearing cache)? It shouldn't do that. It doesn't let you
vote if you don't get a ballot cookie from the home page (therefore cookies
are working), and When you vote you get a poll cookie so you can't vote again
on that poll (unless you dump all cookies). How did you do it?
KL
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| (...) Ya. I think I just hit the Reload button and it reposted the form. (...) At some point I turned off new cookies. It might have been after the entry page, or it might have had the old cookie from earlier. Hmm, weird. Something else I just (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) That may have been me -- I'm getting a 403 error there now. It didn't say anywhere that the user was expected to cast only one vote, and it didn't try to throw away duplicates if I clicked different options or hit reload a few times. How about (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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