Welcome to Geeklog, Anonymous Thursday, October 10 2024 @ 10:05 pm EDT

Geeklog Forums

Request: Have the poll remember which members have voted


The_Equivocator

Anonymous
If the poll could remember which of the site members have voted for that particular poll (through a database table), then site owners would not have to worry about poll-related cookies (except for anonymous surfers). Also, this would create more power to plugin writers, as we could theoretically see who has voted in what polls and which option they chose.
 Quote

Status: offline

Dirk

Site Admin
Admin
Registered: 01/12/02
Posts: 13073
Location:Stuttgart, Germany
... not to mention that it would be a violation of privacy. It could even be against the law in some countries. So don\'t expect this to be implemented in Geeklog. bye, Dirk
 Quote

The_Equivocator

Anonymous
This would definitely not be against the law. People are coming to my website to vote on a poll that lives on my harddrive. There is no law saying that internet polls must be private and anonymity must be retained. There could even be a disclaimer on the site saying that all poll answers are logged, if the admin chooses to log them. You don\'t even have to store what their answers were, just in what polls they voted. That would get rid of the whole log-related cookies hassle.
 Quote

Status: offline

Dirk

Site Admin
Admin
Registered: 01/12/02
Posts: 13073
Location:Stuttgart, Germany
Quote by The_Equivocator: This would definitely not be against the law.
Which country are we talking about?
Quote by The_Equivocator:There is no law saying that internet polls must be private and anonymity must be retained.
There is a German law, for example, that states that you must not store personalized information other than what\'s necessary for operating your service (as, for example, a website). At least not, unless you get the explicit permission from the user.
Quote by The_Equivocator:You don\'t even have to store what their answers were, just in what polls they voted.
You did say something else in your original post. Of course, IANAL and may be misinterpreting things here but with fines starting at 25000 Euro (that\'s roughly the same in US dollars), I\'m not going to take any risks, thank you very much ... bye, Dirk
 Quote

Status: offline

ScurvyDawg

Forum User
Full Member
Registered: 11/06/02
Posts: 523
LOL LOL
 Quote

All times are EDT. The time is now 10:05 pm.

  • Normal Topic
  • Sticky Topic
  • Locked Topic
  • New Post
  • Sticky Topic W/ New Post
  • Locked Topic W/ New Post
  •  View Anonymous Posts
  •  Able to post
  •  Filtered HTML Allowed
  •  Censored Content