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My first use of the ATOT Effect ever....

bhanson said:
I don't think that works.
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Sure it does. Their verification is cookie based. Private browsing mode won't allow cookies, so you're a new visitor every time. In all seriousness, I wouldn't abuse that "feature". If things don't look right, the votes could be deleted manually by an admin.
 
lxskllr said:
Sure it does. Their verification is cookie based. Private browsing mode won't allow cookies, so you're a new visitor every time. In all seriousness, I wouldn't abuse that "feature". If things don't look right, the votes could be deleted manually by an admin.
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I still doubt it, IP based vote limiting is pretty much the first thing any programmer worth a darn would implement. The entire application is worthless without it.

More likely I think instead there is a disconnect with the client and server side data. Eg. The website displays what is in the cookie without checking the server to verify if you have already voted. When you submit another vote most likely any subsequent votes from the same IP just get ignored, but the client side cookie still gets updated.
 
bhanson said:
I still doubt it, IP based vote limiting is pretty much the first thing any programmer worth a darn would implement. The entire application is worthless without it.

More likely I think instead there is a disconnect with the client and server side data. Eg. The website displays what is in the cookie without checking the server to verify if you have already voted. When you submit another vote most likely any subsequent votes from the same IP just get ignored, but the client side cookie still gets updated.
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Maybe you're right. I just put a few votes in, and the ranking didn't change. It's worked on a few of the "effect" threads we've had though.
 
lxskllr said:
Maybe you're right. I just put a few votes in, and the ranking didn't change. It's worked on a few of the "effect" threads we've had though.
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It's also harder to tell because the website implements caching, all of the vote and ranking data is cached.
 
bhanson said:
I still doubt it, IP based vote limiting is pretty much the first thing any programmer worth a darn would implement. The entire application is worthless without it.

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Would they not allow multiple votes per IP? It is not uncommon for a large number of computers to be behind 1 IP address. I could see a programmer going either way with that sort of thing.
 
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