Kasz216 said:
But the point is... they probably didn't. All they found out was a way to multiple vote by clearing your cache. Which is something you can do for most polls and voting things... that do infact count the results. Once again it's a case of someone jumping to conclusions again... and once again gametrailers likely didn't really lie. |
Exactly. I've written many online polls and there's basically only three ways to do it. One way is by IP address, which isn't really practical because many people share the same ip and that would block large groups of people from voting. The second way is by creating a cookie on the user's computer to show that they have already voted. The problem with that approach is that people can easily delete their cookies and vote as much as they want to. The third way is to base it on the user's profile, but that locks it down and it's no longer a public poll.
I didn't see this poll so I can't say much about it, but if they wanted it to be a public poll that anyone could vote on, then the only option they had was to use cookies, which it appears to be the way they chose to do it. If they wanted to, they could have locked it down so that only registered users could vote, but that limits the sample size.
To say that they are lying about the poll result, just because deleting your cookies let's you vote again, is foolish.
