Thursday, April 3, 2008

Voting had to be removed

Hi folks,

Sorry to say, but the voting had to be removed for now. Although there were some safeguards in the poll script to prevent duplicate votes by the same person, it didn't have the most stringent duplicate-vote protection possible. I didn't think it was too important - I thought most people would vote once (maybe twice) and then let everyone else have their vote, and leave it at that.

Anyway, upon checking the poll logs, I found that there were 4 or 5 people who were voting over & over & over & over... One person had 262 votes in a row just this evening alone , another 195 non-stop votes. Youch, I imagine they had stiff fingers after clicking that many times! That obviously is not fair to everyone else, for a few people to try to "force" the vote to go to their choice. A few duplicate votes could be overlooked, but 200+??? I know, it never stated not to vote more than once, but come on, I think common sense would tell you that voting over 200 times non-stop in a row is not the right thing to do.

I'm going to try to find another poll script with tighter security measures against multiple votes, and when I get one, I'll put it up on the site. Sorry for the inconvenience! I'll simply select another alphabet at random this time around, but maybe by next week, voting will be back in place.

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