Front Page Poll Vote Problem Again

Dyre Straits · Sep 11, 2003, 02:12 PM

Seems if I clear my browser cache, even if I don't select the Offline Content option, I get to vote all over again.

Same as previous times this has happened.

Could the Poll have anything to do with the front page error we've been getting?

ToshiroOC · Sep 11, 2003, 07:18 PM

Poll is based on cookies, so clearing your cookies will let you vote again... ideally people won't be such losers that they have time to stuff ballots by deleting cookies and revoting

Dyre Straits · Sep 11, 2003, 07:27 PM

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Originally posted by ToshiroOC
Poll is based on cookies, so clearing your cookies will let you vote again... ideally people won't be such losers that they have time to stuff ballots by deleting cookies and revoting

I don't select to delete cookies.....BUT.....

I do have AdAware installed. Would that delete this type of cookie?

ToshiroOC · Sep 11, 2003, 08:38 PM

Its entirely possible. However, I'm quite sure that the error you mentioned is ad-related, not poll-related.

***Zardon*** · Sep 12, 2003, 01:25 AM

hey cool !!! dyres weekly problem ! I was missing one of these

UberLord · Sep 12, 2003, 04:19 AM

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Originally posted by Dyre Straits
Could the Poll have anything to do with the front page error we've been getting?

The day I start writing javascript for something as simple as a poll the sky would fall in.

In other words - no

BWX · Sep 12, 2003, 04:36 AM

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Originally posted by Dyre Straits
I don't select to delete cookies.....BUT.....

I do have AdAware installed. Would that delete this type of cookie?

Adaware does not delete the cookies that store my vote for the DH polls. So neither does yours unless you change some setting in Adaware I am unaware of.

Dyre Straits · Sep 12, 2003, 12:49 PM

OK...here's something of interest: Not only was my voting renewed, BUT, when I accessed the usual WEBsite that I use to check weather (www.accuweather.com) I ALSO had to re-enter my ZIP code.

Now, that makes me suspicious that maybe there's a 'time' or 'expiration' mechanism at work. Does IE (or XP, for that matter) have any setting that automatically clears cookies that aren't 'renewed' within a certain period of time? Since the voting was done over a week ago, and there was no further activity on that, it just makes me wonder if there's something afoot in that area.

BWX · Sep 12, 2003, 01:17 PM

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Originally posted by Dyre Straits
OK...here's something of interest: Not only was my voting renewed, BUT, when I accessed the usual WEBsite that I use to check weather (www.accuweather.com) I ALSO had to re-enter my ZIP code.

Now, that makes me suspicious that maybe there's a 'time' or 'expiration' mechanism at work. Does IE (or XP, for that matter) have any setting that automatically clears cookies that aren't 'renewed' within a certain period of time? Since the voting was done over a week ago, and there was no further activity on that, it just makes me wonder if there's something afoot in that area.

AFAIK the cookies themselves dictate when they expire, unless acted on by some other program or setting.