Bug report in Polls

I think -borg- should change the way the polls work to store the votes on the db rather than using the IP and cookies......it just don't make sense to me...... dialup users get a different IP everytime they log on to the internet and cookies can be deleted so anyone can cheat on the polls........also many users can have the same IP on a network and only one will be able to vote..........

most forums store a poll vote in the cookies. who cares if that cheat. i mean come on how many times are they gonna delete their cookies and keep logging on?

Could you imagine storing each users details in the database for each poll they vote in, the forum would crawl along and be totally full of useless data.

It would mean storing each uses ID each time they vote in a poll, have 1000 users vote in a poll it would mean storing 1000 ID numbers for that poll in the database, thats quite an overhead.

You will only have the problem when you delete a poll is you start with a fresh database again, in normal use each poll with have different ID number so the problem woouldn't arise.

The more I look at how the polls where built the more I think boRg was right to do them the way they are. And come on if someone is going to try that hard to cheat then hell let them.