"Rob Church" wrote:
Far, far simpler than that:
- Don't allow unregistered users to rate pages
- When a user rates page, their new rating replaces existing ratings
for that page from that user, allowing people's opinions to change over time
No sense in fiddling about with all this IP address hashing bollocks and super-secret hashing when there's no need. I think the idea of personal information and IP addresses and storage and so forth is going to people's heads.
Rob Church
Much easier. But probably you'll get the most feedback from anons. At least how i understood it. If you have a number of wikipedists 'reviewing articles' may be used.
Such hashing is a weak system to avoid multiple votes. You see there's no IP addresses stored, e.g. only your ip module 12345. So it's higly improbable two different anons with colliding ip voting for the same article in a short amount of time. Much more improbable if you only compare the last voter. But then you could fill votes alternating two ips. So i mentioned checking X last voters.