birdfeedr
Premium,MVM
join:2001-08-11
Warwick, RI | Re: polls Is there a mechanism that prevents a user from responding to a poll more than once?
Asked another way, is it possible for the results to be skewed by a *ahem* zealous respondent? | |
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nwrickert
sand groper
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join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
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| Re: polls When I tried that once (by accident - I had forgotten that I already voted), it reminded me that I had already voted and did not accept the second vote.
I've never tried voting as an anonymous user, so I don't know what happens in that case.
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birdfeedr
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join:2001-08-11
Warwick, RI | Re: polls Thanks. I haven't tried to vote twice, but will consider it as a test. On a different computer, I'll go in as anon. As a test. | |
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28
 ·magicjack.com
| Re: polls Would it be more simple or more difficult to permit a member to vote again but have the system accept only the most recent vote--as a form of 'edit' (for those rare occasions when one changes one's mind  )? | |
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nwrickert
sand groper
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join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL | Re: polls To implement that, the site would have to keep a record of how everybody voted. Most people won't like the privacy implications of that.
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28
·magicjack.com
| Re: polls said by nwrickert  :...the site would have to keep a record of how everybody voted.
And I know the site doesn't already keep such a record because... how?
(I'm not convinced there's any more of a "privacy factor" involved with voting in a poll here than with the usual thread posting, but to each his/her own.) | |
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nwrickert
sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
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| Re: polls And I know the site doesn't already keep such a record because... how? Obviously we don't know. However, keeping such records requires more complex programming, so it is unlikely.
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28
·magicjack.com
| Re: polls True. Depending on the method used now, it could be either really easy or somewhat involved to add such a feature... but, that's the fun of programming--adding useful features (not that I'm saying such a feature would be all that useful, beyond giving some coder something potentially fun to do ). | |
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