Say you have a page where people can add thier site and then thier users can vote on its popularity, is thier away to stop cheaters, that disable cookies(fix-only allow only cookie users)to allow only 1 vote per hour from an IP(fix-IP checker), anyway to stop dial-up that uses a different IP every connection? and/or is thier any other tricks people can use to get around the cookie&ip checks.
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Stopping Cheaters
- Thread starter Montroze
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From what I know of, there isn't a real sure fire way from stopping those "cheaters"...
Even if you use cookies, they can just clean out their cache and revote again, if you use IP address then they can just dial-up again and revote...but you can make it harder for them by using both techinques...use cookies and IP logs...
There is another way: via the use of session variables, they are stored on the server and not the user PC (from what I know of, I may be wrong) so they can't just clear their cache or redial-in again...and you can specify when you want the session variables to expire...
BTW, session varaibales are used via coldfusion... I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...
Even if you use cookies, they can just clean out their cache and revote again, if you use IP address then they can just dial-up again and revote...but you can make it harder for them by using both techinques...use cookies and IP logs...
There is another way: via the use of session variables, they are stored on the server and not the user PC (from what I know of, I may be wrong) so they can't just clear their cache or redial-in again...and you can specify when you want the session variables to expire...
BTW, session varaibales are used via coldfusion... I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...
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