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By executex on
Hi,
I have two sites where I tested anonymous polls. One of them on a D5 website (still getting hundreds of visitors) seemed to work fine until the 11th voter. After that, that poll has been stuck the same way for 3-4 months. I can't even vote on it from another computer, it just doesn't register anything anymore.
On the other site, a D6 site, the poll has been stuck at 18 votes for the past 3-4 weeks. And it gets a lot of visitors as well.
I checked permissions, anonymous users CAN vote still. Cron is running fine, and I don't have any special cache enabled.
Is there a reason why they couldn't get a simple anonymous voting poll to work? I mean isn't it just a matter of checking IPs and perhaps dropping a couple cookies if possible? It shouldn't be so difficult and broken--unless absolutely no one that uses drupal uses anonymous polls---or unless some random bug occurs very rarely that no one noticed?
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Do you ...
Do you get the abliity to vote, but your vote is not being registered - OR - do you not get the ability to vote at all as the poll is just showing the results bars?
If the latter, do you have page cacheing enabled?
Mike,
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Mike,
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Ok one of them had the
Ok one of them had the "second one"-- but i turned off page cache, logged out and voted, and it won't register the vote.
The other one, I turned off cache as well... Then i voted with firefox, it said "vote registered" and when i refresh I dont see results but the vote button is disabled. In IE8, I vote and the page refreshes with no CSS file and I can still click vote.
This is really creepy stuff!
Both still at 11 and 19 votes.
am I the only one with this
am I the only one with this problem?
Did you solve this? I am
Did you solve this? I am having a similar problem.
Nope, I'm guessing its a
Nope, I'm guessing its a matter of keeping your database clean.
I solved my issue which I am
I solved my issue which I am now guessing was different from yours. I had removed the
print $rest;from my poll-vote.tpl.php which was necessary for the polls to register a vote. Or rather I don't know why but when I put it back in everything worked.