colons
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10 years ago I'm glad you feel how I do about not doing this through Twitter, but I'm also not at all sure how best to prevent multiple votes per person. The way I see it, we have a couple of options:
- Twitter auth (needlessly complicated and most people wouldn't bother because it's way creepy)
- Native auth (nobody would bother)
- Cookie-based gating (trivial to exploit)
- IP-based gating (most people would be able to vote at least twice, we're vulnerable to botnets)
I think the latter is the least shitty, but still leaves us reasonably vulnerable.
As for shipping stuff out, I'd be uncomfortable indiscriminately gathering shipping addresses for all entrants; ideally they would just provide an email address and you would contact the winner. Also, if someone just posts their image to Twitter, you could easily exclude them from the competition.
Should results be public while the poll is in progress? Once it's over?
theshillito
So back in #55 polls were mentioned, which is kinda relevant to this.
In the coming weeks, I have a competition planned involving user submitted images which will be judged. I am considering the judging process and whether it be public or closed. Plus, the submission of images should include relevant info of the submitter for passing on the prize (it's not a Madonna t-shirt). The ideal process would be users submitting entries through the website, hiding user information from the public and the voters to remove all outside influence.
SO a voting page once submissions end shows all images in a random order but no information on the user. So, if the judging is public, it isn't public who made what image (though stopping people from sharing their entry publicly may be a problem).
I am typing this on my phone while in the car home, so it's mostly rambles but most of my points should have survived.