Problem with Voting

Anc@l@gon the Black · Postby **Anc@l@gon the Black** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 3:00 am

Ok, when I vote for the day, it allows me to vote more than once within the 24 hours. I think I'm the only 1 on here who can do it. I found this out when I was just seeing if I could vote again. This was like the 1st or 2nd day when I knew nothing about voting or anything about the game. Ben said to my friends that it's because I don't have a static IP. Don't know what the hell it is but it allows me to vote more than once. I guess that wraps it up. Sorry for not reporting it sooner.

Unifex · Postby **Unifex** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 3:37 am

If it is due to a static IP problem (or lack of one more to the point) then this will affect almost everyone on a dial up account.

Deek · Postby **Deek** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 5:23 am

Probably the only way around this would be to use cookies... dunno what the technical boffs think of this?

Unifex · Postby **Unifex** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 6:40 am

Why not just store a last_voted field? If it was more than 24 hours ago there's no vote. Else the vote counts and the last_voted field is updated to now()...

Ben · Postby **Ben** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 8:01 am

I just GUESSED it had something to do with non-static IPs. Im really quite computer retarded, when it comes to networking and internet.

Cory · Postby **Cory** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 1:30 pm

Can you vote more then once back to back or after you disconnect and come back if on dialup

Anc@l@gon the Black · Postby **Anc@l@gon the Black** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 3:31 pm

I can vote more than once back to back.

Cory · Postby **Cory** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 5:23 pm

What ISP do you use?

Anc@l@gon the Black · Postby **Anc@l@gon the Black** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:28 pm

I use Net Zero

Cory · Postby **Cory** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 7:52 pm

Thank you, I'm trying to reproduce the bug. If I can't I will use my best guess for a solution.

Unifex · Postby **Unifex** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 8:56 pm

How are you limiting the voting to once a day at the moment Cory?

Cory · Postby **Cory** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 9:50 pm

Currently every click is recorded to a database with their IP, I even delve into the headers to defeat proxies. Its supposed to be simple, a select on the IP finds if it exists and if not add it. The odd thing is that the same IP is being entered more then once still and its only effecting some people. There are some very obvious holes people are using to get around it right now that I am taking steps to fix.

Unifex · Postby **Unifex** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 2:52 am

Why not just use their username and timestamp? You could even add a last_vote field to the user table so that you don't even need to make an extra query to get the info if you've already retreived the user record...

Cory · Postby **Cory** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 6:55 pm

Then you have to sign up to vote and I don't want that. I want your friends to vote for you whether they play or not

Unifex · Postby **Unifex** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 12:29 am

Ah. Why not just use cookies that last 24 hours then? You can check for the cookie and if it's still there no vote. If it's not, set it.

You can do a quick check to set and unset a cookie and if that fails let them know they need cookies enabled to vote.

Cory · Postby **Cory** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 2:35 am

Thats also in place now. It was just put in place the other day.

jihad · Postby **jihad** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 10:32 am

i cant vote at all it just says mt vote has alrady been recorded even though i havent voted for ages. also for some reason i cannot log in to the forums it always says invalid username and im not on the member list bu8t i am able to log into the game

Cory · Postby **Cory** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 11:30 am

PM me with your IP address and I'll go over my list and see why.

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Problem with Voting

Problem with Voting

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