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I'm on AOL 8.0 at work.

I voted for a song, and it gave me the popup and the page went to the normal "You're vote for X has been recorded". All's well.

Then I logged off and closed AOL. I logged back in a little while later, and noticed that the page has been "reset" and now has all the voting buttons on there.

I tried voting for a different song and it did the whole "your vote for y..." page again, this time with the second song I voted for's name there. I'm guessing that if I were to log off and try again, it would do the same thing.

Sooo... Just bringing that to your attention. Some assy band could possibly sit and friendflood themselves. But it could be that that second vote and any ones after are not actually recorded or something. I don't know. I dunno how SF voting works. Either way, figured I'd tell the powers that be.
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Post by Plat »

I can't speak for sitemasters, but I'll take a guess:

I'm pretty sure this is because your IP address keeps changing each time you log into AOL. Since voting is anonymous, it's keyed off of your IP address (i.e. one vote per IP address per title). So each IP address you get is another opportunity to vote.

Without removing the anonymity of voting, it would be pretty hard to do anything about this. It could maybe some cookie tricks to make cheating harder (but not impossible -- just clear cookies and you're back to the same problem!). Or complex client-side junk that fingerprints your system, but again, nothing is foolproof.
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That's what I figured. I guess I'll just use it to my advantage when I really want one song to win!

(I'm totally joking, of course. I <3 the one-vote system)
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Post by rone rivendale »

It probably would have been better to PM this kind of problem, because I know for sure people are going to do it now lol.
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Only dicky people. And generally if people win by a large majority people are fishy anyway.
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Post by jb »

This is the reason that the pop-up and FAQ say this:
Can I vote more than once?
We really wish you wouldn't. Voting multiple times doesn't really get you anything does it? There's no prize or anything after all, and what satisfaction is there in bragging rights if you cheated to get them?
The IP tracking is intended as a small effort to make it easy to remember that you've already voted, not necessarily as an attempt to prevent multiple voting-- precisely because it's so easy to get around IP tracking/cookie tracking/any system short of requiring registration.

We're really on the honor system here people.
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Post by Denyer »

Spud has told me twice before that whoever he likes wins.
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Post by rone rivendale »

*mental note: be nice to Spud*
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