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Re:Ask HN: Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? by Zev on Saturday October 31, 2009 @04:01PM (#913973)
One could perfect this to an art really. Get your ip to start changing, have Chromium open on a hotkey, use ctrl+shift+n to go incognito (or just have it auto-load in incognito), have the poll set as your homepage. You can clock alot of votes this way.

If someone's willing to go to that far of an extreme to game a vote, I don't think a login system would do much to stop them either. You can just as easily create new accounts with the new IP and a fake email address.

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Re:Ask HN: Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? by barmstrong on Saturday October 31, 2009 @06:18PM (#914240)
Your're correct that it could be gamed with multiple email addresses as well. It would just take a little longer. Going to click a confirmation link, a captcha, etc.
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Re:Ask HN: Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? by genieyclo on Saturday October 31, 2009 @06:24PM (#914256)
Exactly.
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Re:Ask HN: Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? by genieyclo on Saturday October 31, 2009 @04:03PM (#913978)
Not really.

The difference is that with a login method, it takes significantly more effort and time. This is pretty straightforward once you have it setup.

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