2013 favorite restaurants northern part of the lake

[lovetheforum]

Originally Posted by Resident 2B

I like these polls, regardless of the name or geographic location.

For me, it is not just the four places that are on top. They deserve to be where they are. What I also look at is where the restaurants were last year and where they are this year. Without getting into names, one place really stands out as having slipped rapidly to the bottom.

I have always believed the way the guests (customers) are treated goes a long, long way and for the restaurant that has slipped the most, it is starting to show. Those on the top of the poll treat their guests in a respectable manner. Glad to see this is being noticed by the masses.

R2B

I never thought of it that way. But as I read your post it makes perfect sense. Thank you for your post!

[phoenix]

I am starting to wonder the accuracy of this poll as some restaurants seem to get a large jump within a few hours. This has happened more than once

[Rusty]

As of right now there has been a total of 1883 votes casts in this poll. Where did all these votes come from?

Evidently there isn't too much control on who can vote other than you can't vote twice with the same IP address (and I'm not 100% sure about that).

IMO this poll would mean a whole lot more if only registered members could vote.

For example a guest under a dynamic IP votes once then refreshes it's IP and votes for the second time.

[patman]

These are far from scientific/bulletproof polls.

This poll does not limit votes by IP address. Logged in users can only vote once, and that's recorded on the site end of things based on userid. Log out of the site and you can vote again as a guest...which is recorded as a cookie on your browser since there's no userid to associate it with. And oh-by-the-way, those guest cookies are cleared when you log in and out. In fact, any time you log in to the site and then back out again you can vote again as a guest.

But that would be wrong.

[WakeboardMom]

Originally Posted by patman

These are far from scientific/bulletproof polls.

This poll does not limit votes by IP address. Logged in users can only vote once, and that's recorded on the site end of things based on userid. Log out of the site and you can vote again as a guest...which is recorded as a cookie on your browser since there's no userid to associate it with. And oh-by-the-way, those guest cookies are cleared when you log in and out. In fact, any time you log in to the site and then back out again you can vote again as a guest.

But that would be wrong.

I tried this. I have now voted once with my user ID and then twice as a guest(from the same computer), because I was curious. This now makes this poll completely invalid in my (humble) opinion.

[webmaster]

I have removed the ability for guests to vote in the polls. The polls were never meant to be scientific and guests were originally included to increase participation (guests online usually outnumber members by 10-1). Until this thread I never noticed guests flooding a poll with votes but it appears to be time to restrict the voting to registered members.

[BroadHopper]

It looks the the polling software does not capture IP addresses and store it on the server. If it did, multiple votes from one IP address shouldn't exist. The problem with this setup is that if more than one person tries to vote from the same IP address they could not.

I think limiting the polls to members makes sense. This will eliminate 'stuffing' the polls and family members with with different accounts can vote from the same IP address or computer.

In all fairness, I will in a later date, established a poll of all restuarants who advertised here on the forum and those who advertised in the 'Boater's Secret' publication to determined 'Winnipesaukee.com' best of the best. If I can't poll all restuarants in one poll, I will established two polls, 'The 'boros' and the 'non 'boros'. With Don limiting members only, we should have a fair representation of what the members like.

[diz]

Originally Posted by BroadHopper

It looks the the polling software does not capture IP addresses and store it on the server. If it did, multiple votes from one IP address shouldn't exist. The problem with this setup is that if more than one person tries to vote from the same IP address they could not.

I think limiting the polls to members makes sense. This will eliminate 'stuffing' the polls and family members with with different accounts can vote from the same IP address or computer.

In all fairness, I will in a later date, established a poll of all restuarants who advertised here on the forum and those who advertised in the 'Boater's Secret' publication to determined 'Winnipesaukee.com' best of the best. If I can't poll all restuarants in one poll, I will established two polls, 'The 'boros' and the 'non 'boros'. With Don limiting members only, we should have a fair representation of what the members like.

If you limit one vote to one IP aren't you essentially limiting people voting at work or a couple at home behind a cheap Linksys router? Their 'real' IPs aren't the source IPs.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by diz

If you limit one vote to one IP aren't you essentially limiting people voting at work or a couple at home behind a cheap Linksys router? Their 'real' IPs aren't the source IPs.

The webmaster has now set it up so that only registered forum members can vote. That means it won't use the IP address in the equation. It will use the forum members qualitative identity (a numerical ID).

If you vote at work it really doesn't matter. When you get home and log in you won't be able to vote again.