Monday, July 23, 2007

Even Polls Should Have Some Integrity?

I truly thought this Poll on 'The D.A.'s Stipend' was straight-up but, it wasn't and it sure as hell doesn't help my cause any to allow it to continue when those more creative than the rest of us can, essentially, vote as many times as they want to.

I apologize to all for the inconvenience.

I will try to find a poll program that will actually allow, only one vote per person forever or until the poll ends.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you are going to find this a impossible feat. Unless you have some sort of registration type poll.

Many local users have IP addresses that change very quickly, so they can vote as many times as they want.....if you are running some type of "one IP address = one vote" poll.

I know every time Josh posts on my site his IP AND service provider change every second. As do other Anon posters.

Patrick McGee said...

I've only had one site that I felt like I actually could control and only by setting the built-in re-vote time period to infinity and that worked pretty well, with the "Delete Cookies" masters somewhat frustrated but really, I don;t think any internet poll is tamperproof so, let's not try to fool anybody on that.

Look at the Bradwood Poll. That thing has been packed to the hilt with multiple voting coming out the wazoo.

So, you wanta do an internet poll? Make it a straw poll only and don't spout your end result as an accurate reflection of public thinking.

Anonymous said...

Funny how your polls that overwhelmingly agree with your position are "fair and balanced" and ones that don't have been "sabotaged".
Don't you have some commandments to nail up somewhere?

Patrick McGee said...

Tryan? You hear something?
Hmmm!
Guess it was nothing.