by Christina
[UPDATE 2]: Ok, here we go. No matter what I do, I cannot get the password protection to work. So this is what we're going to do (it takes more work on my end in these early rounds, but I think it's the most effective and also allows everyone to vote). No captchas. No passwords. No e-mail submissions. I can see every individual vote and IP address that comes in with an exact timestamp. If I see bots, I'll delete those votes. If you use a bot to vote at the same rate a normal human would, then that's kinda a waste of a bot isn't it? If this doesn't work, I'll revisit the solutions tomorrow. Hope this works for everyone.
[UPDATE]: First off, thank you to everyone for being so nice and lovely in your messages. I’ve tested the polls below and find the captchas just as frustrating. You can only click on so many images of a bike before you lose your mind. I’m in the process of removing all the captchas. I’ve also extended the close of polls below to make up for all your technical difficulties. Some notes:
All polls available below:
20 Comments
JJ
3/22/2021 06:00:11 pm
Mod
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Addy
3/22/2021 06:21:44 pm
I can’t vote. The captcha on several brackets seems stuck. I cleared cookies and still can’t vote. Please help.
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Hellhounds and Banshees
3/22/2021 06:26:56 pm
Mod,
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BB
3/22/2021 06:31:18 pm
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k
3/22/2021 06:42:52 pm
The captchas are driving me batty. I went through ten screens, only for it not letting me vote at end. Halp!
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Berry
3/22/2021 07:45:04 pm
Hello mod!
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KH
3/22/2021 10:18:49 pm
mod
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Seb
3/22/2021 11:02:12 pm
I’m sorry mod, but I’m finding the captcha pictures hard to see, they’re so fuzzy. And I had to go through like 7 pages before I could verify once. Sorry mod, but this is becoming too frustrating.
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eM
3/23/2021 12:00:41 am
thank you very much for doing it for us again!
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JoJo
3/23/2021 01:55:36 am
Is something wrong with captcha? I just went through ten screens before I could vote, and then it wouldn’t let me vote.
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Sal
3/23/2021 02:40:54 am
Am I the only one having problems with captcha?
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FF
3/23/2021 04:03:59 am
Is it possible to have this without captcha? Because other than one certain ship, I’m not seeing a lot of votes. I just went through Four pages of buses and fire hydrants to vote once. Please, is there any other way to vote? Because um having Eonline flashbacks here.
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DD
3/23/2021 06:25:07 am
How is the Sanvers bracket the only one with more than a handful of votes?
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HG
3/23/2021 07:44:18 pm
Thanks mod for removing captcha. I was starting to think I’d see fire hydrants in my sleep. Lol.
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3/24/2021 11:35:42 am
I FEEL YOU. Traffic lights and bicycles will haunt me in my sleep for weeks.
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Msm
3/25/2021 12:42:55 am
Hello! Not to cause more problems for you (I swear I don't mean to) but I'm thinking something might be wrong because I'm trying to vote and my votes don't seem to be counted for some reason? I even tried deleting cache and it still doesn't mark my votes properly when I select Vote.
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3/26/2021 09:47:24 pm
Unfortunately, there's still nothing I can do about the ~25 vote limit imposed by Crowdsignal. It seems to lock you out for a couple hours if you vote more than about 25 times a minute. I haven't actually tested what the true limitations are.
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MSM
3/27/2021 09:52:51 am
Hi! I don't want to be all annoying or anything but I really think something is wrong with one of your polls. If there is a 25 lock limit it's not applying to both sides.
ALNM Mod Christina
3/27/2021 04:54:51 pm
I don't know the exact limitations Crowdsignal puts on their polls to detect fraud activity. But I can see every individual vote with a time stamp down to the second alongside an IP address. I haven't seen any rushes of a thousand votes in a minute on my initial review. I do see mostly bunches of 25-30 votes from any IP address at a time with breaks before the next bunch. But I did just only look at the more active polls just now. Could you be more specific so I can review your concerns? Another possibility is there could be a delay in the votes being displayed here on the site that I could look in to.
MSM
3/27/2021 06:35:40 pm
Hi again! I just want to say first that I appreciate you trying to manage this. I mean it can't be easy to watch all these votes all at once so kudos for that and I really am not accusing you of anything or being like some kind of sore loser-I'm seriously not because I actually like both ships in the poll I was voting in, I just wanted to let you know that I still think there's something going on you're not aware of, outside of the factors you mentioned, that you might want to look into more for your future polls.
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