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nwrickert
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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
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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.)


nwrickert
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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
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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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