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Should We Report Freepers Whenever they try "Freeping" polls?

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mot78 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Oct-12-03 07:28 PM
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Should We Report Freepers Whenever they try "Freeping" polls?
(I hope that we don't do the same thing to polls.)


Why should we let Freepers vote up to 10 times on the same poll. We should report "Freeps" to the webmasters of the sites conducting the polls. I remember a few months ago we got a poll shut down because it was being Freeped.


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   Sure, why not...  slor   Oct-12-03 07:40 PM   #1 
   We don't "Freep" polls, we DU them  Walt Starr   Oct-12-03 07:40 PM   #2 
      That's the only way they can win.  xJlM   Oct-12-03 07:57 PM   #3 
      How do they vote multiple times???  Rashind   Oct-12-03 08:00 PM   #4 
 
slor (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Oct-12-03 07:40 PM
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1. Sure, why not...
And yes we should continue DUing polls. There is a need to help people from making stupid mistakes and if a poll result might influence even one person from supporting these idiots in charge then I have no qualms with it.
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Oct-12-03 07:40 PM
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2. We don't "Freep" polls, we DU them
We vote only one time in each poll. Freepers vote multiple times.
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xJlM (955 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Oct-12-03 07:57 PM
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3. That's the only way they can win.
And I must confess, I have multiple browsers, and I know quite well how to delete my cookies and cache if that's what I want to do.

Doesn't work here, though. I am running Linux right now, but I have a "free" version of W98 that I play games on. If I try to vote in a poll I've already voted in here, the site must have software that tracks who I am. I've never tried on purpose, just found it out by accident.
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Rashind (221 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Oct-12-03 08:00 PM
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4. How do they vote multiple times???
If the script on the site hosting the poll is that shoddy, calling out the hosts on how unusually unfair their polling method is would be a better option than DUing, in my opinion.
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