[Mgs] Death Trap

Frank frankk at intap.net
Wed Aug 1 08:33:48 MDT 2007


Larry: I am certain there is some technical explanation for having to copy 
that weird set of symbols                         before one votes. Anyone 
could easily do the same so it can't be to thwart hackers. I have seen this 
device used on other sites as well. What is its function?
Frank
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Frank" <frankk at intap.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Death Trap


> Well, as I said, as the number of votes go up, the number needed to change
> the percentages also go up.  Could be that the other teams are also 
> racking
> up more votes at the same time.  I did hear one person say that it went 
> from
> 12 up to 20 votes to change .1% -- or 200 votes to move a full percentage
> point.
>
> But to be completely honest, I can't say that positively they are all 
> being
> counted.  I'm just not that tech savvy.  Maybe an opinion from someone 
> more
> up on these things would be warranted?
>
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Frank" <frankk at intap.net>
> To: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Death Trap
>
>
> Larry: Are you certain the votes are being credited? I have voted numerous
> times yesterday and today, asI know others have, and the percentage has 
> not
> changed.
> Frank
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Eric Erickson" <eric at erickson.on.net>
> Cc: "MG LIST" <mgs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Death Trap
>
>
>> Beats me.  That just went way beyond my expertise in computers. 
>> Although,
>> I
>> do hear that it is getting to the point where it requires a lot of votes
>> to
>> make a difference in the percentages.  That will get worse as the number
>> of
>> votes mount up.  Pretty good reason to stay on top of it now rather than
>> trying to play catch-up later.
>>
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Eric Erickson" <eric at erickson.on.net>
>> Cc: "MG LIST" <mgs at autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:54 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Death Trap
>>
>>
>> On 01/08/2007, at 11:12 PM, Larry Daniels wrote:
>>
>>> Frank, that will certainly work, but you will have to delete the
>>> cookies
>>> after each time you vote.  If you just block them in the first
>>> place, you
>>> will save a couple steps for each vote.
>>>
>>
>> The cookie thing seemed not to work for me - it allowed me to vote
>> multiple times but it didn't seem to alter the result after the first
>> vote.
>>
>> We even tried a string of votes from people at work with the same
>> result.
>>
>> Are you sure they are not checking IP Addresses too?  If so then they
>> would be getting the same IP address (via a cache engine/proxy
>> server) for the people in my office and that would answer that question.
>>
>> ???
>>
>>
>> Eric
>> _______________________________________________
>> frankk at intap.net


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