Hey everyone, I'd like to implement a voting system on my site, without having to force them to create an account. They would ultimately be voting up/down a piece of content which has a unique ID. I know that I could store entries in a table with IP/ID, but what if there are more than one user coming from the same IP? Is there a way t...
I've seen several question on how to secure and prevent abuse of ranking systems (like staring movies, products, etc) but nothing on actually implementing it. To simplify this question, security is not a concern to me, the people accessing this system are all trusted, and abuse of the ranking system if it were to happen is trivial and e...
I need to sort some products base on user ratings. Suppose we have 3 products {a,b,c} and we have user's feed backs about this products. It's not important which user give us feed back (this question is not about correlative filtering if you are familiar with it - user interests is not the case here) Each of these below lines are feed ...
What I really want is to limit 1 vote per person but the next best thing i can think of is limit 1 vote per IP address to prevent malicious users/hackers from severely tempering with my company's voting system. I was thinking of using a database to keep track of the IP addresses. Update: Sorry about not being clear in the first time aru...
Hi, ive been giving the task at work of setting up an awards voting system, I dont know too much about php and mysql. But i know more about this than anyone else here, and my boss in on holiday. But I've been reusing the code, that had previously been left on our system and adapting it for this year. Basically the voting system works fi...
Hi, I am trying to figure our a way to calculate rank. Right now it simply takes ratio of wins / losses of each individual entry, so e.g. one won 99 times out of a 100, it has 99% winning rank. BUT if an entry won 1 out of total 1 votes, it will have a 100% winning rank, but definitely it can't be higher that of the one that won 99 time...
I am required to implement a functionality similar to SO voting. I tried to look up some existing questions around this topic and noticed that most people are stuck with how to vote up and down. i am past that. my problem is related to how to handle after a vote has been upvoted. here is what i have done till now. Vote up, Down and Sco...
Hi guys, I've been reading up on stackoverflow about creating voting systems in PHP that minimize abuse/multiple voting from the same user, but I haven't come across the answer to my question. I've got an application where users don't need to register to vote or "like" an entry. Obviously, I want to minimize abuse and I don't want to l...
We want to add a comments/reviews feature to our website's plugin gallery, so users can vote up/down a particular plugin and leave an optional short comment about what they liked or didn't like about it. I'm looking for inspiration, ideally a good implementation elsewhere on the web which isn't annoying to end users, isn't impossibly c...
I'm looking for a voting system that we can implement at work amongst our developers. We need something that allows developers to submit ideas about what we can do to improve our development practices (amongst other things) and then have all the developers vote on the ideas to give everyone an idea of what ideas we should attempt to imp...
I'm trying to make a vote/poll application in Flash using Actionscript 3. Is there any way to generate a specific ID that is unique to each user? The only other option I can think of is using the IP address, which is less than ideal in many cases (college campuses, shared Internet access, etc.). It needs to be the same number every time ...
I need to set up a community web site to allow people to share binary files in some specific binary format. Files will be visible to everyone. I want users to be able to vote and leave comments about files I also want to count downloads. I'm googling for CMS that does just that, or plug-in for Joomla or Wordpress or Drupal, but I cannot...
My problem is I can't get this jQuery slider to start from .1 to 10 in .1 increments and end (stop) at 10. Would like to pull this off without jQuery UI or jQuery tools. I plan to have the hidden input value updated using the slider position then a button that says "VOTE". I appreciate any help with this project. Thanks, Brandon. Here...
Right now, I'm in the middle of building a social media app on Ruby on Rails, i have implemented a 5 point voting system. Where you can vote the news posted on the site from 1-5, what I'd like to know is, What is the best approach at handling the updates on the voting system. In example. If a user already voted in an article I'd like to...
So I am making a voting system, basically a Thumbs Up & Thumbs Down voting system. I am using CakePHP and jQuery with MySQL but want to make sure the front end is correct and this is the best way to do it. I want the user to be able to change their vote, so utilizing jQuery is this the best and most efficient way? I'm fairly novice wi...
Dear Coding Experts I have a project in which i need to be able to calculate different voting power indexes in R. As a first attempt at this I wrote a small function to calculate the banzhaf index. It takes two arguments, a dataframe that has two columns which must be labelled member and vote, and how many votes are needed for a majorit...
Hi! From my knowledge the answer to this question is no, but i might be missing something. There are some polling sites which claim that voting from the same computer is forbidden and will result in a ban. How can they detect that? A cheater may use routable IPs, different operating systems, different browsers, proxies etc. ...
I am about to write a voting method for my site. I want a method to stop people voting for the same thing twice. So far my thoughts have been: Drop a cookie once the vote is complete (susceptible to multi browser gaming) Log IP per vote (this will fail in proxy / corporate environments) Force logins My site is not account based as ...
Hi, I have to create a voting system for school with java, the system will be used to vote for movies. It will have all of the users and movies set up before hand by someone. It is a console application and it will be ran on multiple computers. Some of the questions i have about this are: My teacher wants us to use a text file to ma...