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Topic: polls for unregistered users

Posted By: johngordon
Subject: polls for unregistered users
Date Posted: 10 November 2004 at 12:14pm

My webwiz gives every non-registered user the name "Guest". After the first non-user votes in a poll no other non-user can vote, because the system recognizes all non-users as the same "guest" and then says to all "guests" after the first that they have already voted in the poll.

Most visitors to my site are guests. So a poll only generates one vote from a guest.

Anyone know a way around this, to allow all non-users to vote?

John

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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 10 November 2004 at 2:18pm

im not sure but i thought poll votes where stored in a cookie unless they reply to the poll.

not sure on this.

Posted By: johngordon
Date Posted: 10 November 2004 at 9:35pm

Thanks dj air.

You are right. There are cookies and they do prevent multiple votes from the same computer. But the cookie expires I believe after the site is closed and so the same person - or anohter unregistered user - can vote.

Good news.