multiple times

Shhh!

I had planned on enabling this software’s cookie to prevent multiple votes, but after doing some testing with @NineSwords@ani.social, found that the cookie was way too aggresive. If somebody opened the survey and then closed it without any interaction, the cookie would then prevent them from coming back and completing it. The way it blocked you as well is by emulating a server error rather than a friendly message about multiple votes. That caused me some headaches when I thought I had a configuration problem on the backend.

The only other tool available to me with this software to try to filter out multiple voters is IP tracking. There is fortunately an option to anonymize IPs. So, instead of telling me what a submitter’s real IP is, it will assign a fake one, but if they submit multiple times, that fake IP will show up multiple times. So, that is what I have turned on right now instead. It isn’t a perfect solution. Things like VPNs and mobile connections are easy to circumvent that, while CGNAT might cause some different people to show up as the same voter.

For next year, I plan on verifying votes through lemmy so that each vote is tied to a lemmy account. It’s going to take some effort on my end to figure that part out though. So, for now, it remains a plan on paper.