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Friday, October 07 2005

I've added several entertaining surveys to go along with entries on here over the past couple of weeks, and have gotten a great response, however some users have questioned why they immediately get the results for the survey without the ability to pick a choice themselves.

This can happen for several reasons-

  • The survey is no longer active. I have start and stop times on the surveys, which allows me to age out surveys and cache the results. I am thinking of ways to add a nice "Survey Closed" notice on them.
  • You already answered and have the "I answered" cookie on your machine
  • You picked "View Results". Reload the page and you'll get the options again where applicable
  • Someone else answered, and the system is correlating them with you because of shared traits (such as the IP address of a shared mega proxy). Even if you don't have the user or answer cookies in your browser, the system may still decide that you must have flushed your cookie cache, and that you've actually already answered. Trying to identify people on the net is a difficult, flawed process, so there will be mistakes.
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