Voting Plugin? Stop same isp voting over and over?

**coreyt1111** · 05-21-2010, 01:38 AM

Hi,

I was wondering if theres a plugin or way to stop the same isp from creating new account after new account and voting over and over for his story. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks

**Nick** · 05-21-2010, 01:58 AM

Well, this isn't a bug so doesn't need "fixing", but if having multiple accounts is against your terms of service, just ban the user. Alternatively add the user's IP address or website url to your Blocked List, or disable their posting permissions. Maybe give them "undermod" status?

Otherwise, if you want to get into the code, you could add a query within the Vote plugin to see if a user with the same IP address has voted for that post. IP addresses for voters are stored in the postvotes table.

**coreyt1111** · 05-21-2010, 02:05 AM

would it be hard to add this to a code? Also lets say one guy keeps making new accounts how can I even see his isp address to ban it? Thanks so much for the help....love this script

**coreyt1111** · 05-21-2010, 02:09 AM

to add the query to see if the same user with isp has voted do I open the vote.php file? I would really like to do this if its not too hard. My whole sites premise revolves around getting the most votes and I know users will cheat if I dont do one vote per isp.

But do you know if this will allow users to only vote one story per isp or just one vote total for all stories per isp? Thanks

**Nick** · 05-21-2010, 04:46 AM

It would need to go in vote_functions.php.

There's currently no way of seeing a user's IP address unless you look them up in the database.

**louis** · 05-21-2010, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by coreyt1111

would it be hard to add this to a code? Also lets say one guy keeps making new accounts how can I even see his isp address to ban it? Thanks so much for the help....love this script

How about moderation of entries and NEW User email verification for starters? I think these two alone will slow down if not stop the spammer. Also using the re-Captcha, (http://hotarucms.org/showthread.php?564-reCaptcha-0.1), TOS AntiSpam (http://hotarucms.org/showthread.php?...S-AntiSpam-0.2) plugins,can be effective. I would suggest trying these out and testing them to see if this would work for you.