As I have mentioned in my earlier post on Flex Vs Avalon I am starting the series of polls in an attempt to find out what the community thinks about the what the next wave in RIA's is. The first poll on this series is this, you can vote your option on the right side of the sites main page.
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No, Avalon is in the desktop space while Flex is not.
Mmm. Sorry for fiddling the results on your poll by hitting the browser refresh and hitting 'yes' loads of times but I'm making a point. I guess you don't filter on IP address so I'd not bother with whatever result you came up with anyway, it's easily swayed.
A friend of mine used to do this for a late night TV programme that had polls.
- PaulWeston
Hi Paul,
Yes, its true that when you click the Refresh button and vote again your vote is counted in. But, we do a offline filtering of votes and repeated votes are taken away. For instance in your case your vote count happens to be 26 times with two varying options , in this case only one vote of yours will be counted. Though IP filtering is a good method of avoiding this, even that's not a fool proof method, its more about trust and beleif in the users. In our case we beleive more on offline filetring rather than automated filtering. The site has a very strong tracking methodology build-in which tracks all details about the poll such as IP, Country, Time, Previous Visit to site, previous option and a lot.
As you should be already knowing the poll application is at alpha and Iam working on a very robust poll system which gives the admin all the details he wants for analysis of the applications performace and stuffs. So dont worry, I value the options of my visitors and I would do justice to the poll and give a fair result to the community out of this poll.
Cheers,
LAH