Some visitors have been abusing the poll voting. I don’t require you to login to vote – which means if you’re clever, it is possible to vote more than once.
A number of people have exploited that capability. All votes have been deleted for anyone who voted 5 or more times on any question. The worst abuser voted 57 times on the Rush Limbaugh question wanting a “live host” when Rush is on vacation.
I’ve had several people report to me that they vote, and the poll doesn’t update and show results, but both of those people vanished when I asked for specifics. It is possible there is a bug in the poll, but I can’t find it (yet).
So this leaves me with a few options. I can require people to login to vote, I can ban people who abuse multiple voting from accessing the web site, or I can rely on people’s honor to stop doing this behavior.
It’s your call.
*** Update May 18th ***
A signficant problem was found. About 23,000 votes had vanished into a black hole in the past month – that was the cause of the “but I don’t see my vote” problem. That probably was only a small part of the mutiple voting issue – but fixing that problem closes the big hole that allowed the multiple voting.
Lately after voting I don’t see the results. I don’t think that I have ever voted 57 times, at least not intentionally. The same polls keep popping up so sometimes I vote more than once. I figured since it was just for fun and not scientific who cares.
I guess, I wasnt the only one that faced the problem of the same poll popping up over and over again without seeing the results and going on to the next question. I didnt think that it even registered the vote, after a while I got tired of trying and just gave up. and if I voted more than once on the same poll and it registered it wasnt intentional. I believe that I am not a member nor have I ever been a member of ACORN. so let the polls roll. This apology is directed to the Evil micromanager SORRY !!!
PS. Being a Evil former San Francisco freakazoid hatemonger I should have figured that one out by my- self. dont push buttons over and over if ya don’t know what happpens .!!!!!