Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 11/14/07 13:52

<skulkrinbait@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm interested in a solution to this kind of problem myself and the IP
> address version is the one I would probably go with, although it's far
> from perfect.
>
> One other solution might be to ask users to enter their email address
> and then only accept the vote once they click a link on a confirmation
> email. That's very cumbersome and people may not go to the trouble of
> bothering with that, depends on how important the vote is I suppose!
> Even that's far from foolproof, but worth mentioning I thought.

I've worked on several survey sites before, and I can tell you - if you're
not having the users signup for it, you're results will suck.
That's why ALL of the professional survey sites demand a signup before
questions are posed.

You KNOW there are folks out there who will spend a lot of time figuring out
whatever lock-outs you have.
So if you allow anonymous votes - you'll draw them as surely as if your site
was called "HackMe.TV".

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