Re: "Did this help?"

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

Robert Myers wrote:

>         Well, we could add an IP field.  And I had talked with jason about
> "encrypting" the get vars, so that it is not so easy to do it that way.  I
> know we had talked about the IP field in the yes/no thingy.
> 
>         That brings up an interesting idea I had about this.  Instead of
> the select/update pair, why not create another table, insert the yes/no
> and IP address into the table.  Although we would still have like two
> statements, one to check IP and one to insert. Well, then we could have
> ajob at night that would combine all of the yes/nos into the articles
> table.  I suppose this might not work out all that well now as we are
> thinking of putting in the IP stuff.
> 
>         Just thinking out loud.

I guess we shouldn't worry about it until it becomes a problem.  (Unless
you're reasonably sure it will be a problem.)

An IP check obviously won't keep people from voting twice, and it could
unfairly limit others' votes.  Maybe, if it's reasonably easy to do, we
could check to see if there's two votes from the same IP in a 15 minute
block of time.