Polls - simple question

Not really had the need to use polls before, but am putting them into a new site build.

Quick question though, are they set so users can only vote once or multiple votes on a single poll?

I cant see a standard option to enable / disable this which I would have thought was a basic settings feature...

Any hacks if the option is not there?

 It's meant that members can only vote once BUT as soon as they have IP changes they in-fact can vote etc again and again ...

I don't think the module tracks members - only their IP address. It's limited to one vote per IP, so the most you can do is limit voting rights to members only. But indeed, once they change their IP address, they can vote again.

Maybe BoonEx should change that Nathan ... Sites would never be able to use 'Polls' to collect information (example; for marketing research) as the polls / results can be cheated easily.

I actually want to allow members to vote repeatedly. Some polls have option to select multiple answers not just one.

Any way to tweak it that you know of?

@ BOONEX DEVELOPERS - I think the polls should not be votable by ip addresses. That's retarded. What if you have multiple users at a library on a school campus. Most likely the ip address will be the same as they are all on the same network. Only one person out of all those students can vote? Illogical.

Shame there's not an option for multiple choice! 

Even Modzzz advanced polls module is single choice.

Anyone know how to make Polls multiple choice?

 RE:

 This is the same type issue I griped about 4 years ago when I became aware that vote tracking was tied to IP addresses, and I made the exact same argument regarding people that access the internet via a proxy server.  I even wrote a ticket, but it got shoveled onto the "Dolphin 8" pile.... a place they put stuff that they don't feel like working on.

I believe most polls where the public is allowed to vote on, use cookies to provide some manner of voting limitations.  Sure, if you clear the browser cookies or use a different browser, you can vote again, but it's the only method that makes any sense.  When polls are limited to voting by members only, vote tracking should be tied to user ID.  Maybe some day it will work this way.... I almost can't believe vote tracking still works off IP addresses after all these years.

shame. If its not easy to remove the IP tracking and limit to one vote, then might be easier to look at a 3rd party setup like PollDaddy.com

not ideal but unfortunately might be best option!

It should be an option setting in the admin area... to turn on/off IP checking.  When poll voting is limited to paid site members then it makes perfect sense to remove IP checking and simply limit voting based on member ID.  I use modzzz Advanced Polls on my D7.0.9 site and removed the IP checking.

 unfortunately that option is not present in the boonex module.

Does Modzzz version allow multiple choice then?

The Advanced Polls mod does not allow multiple answers to be selected for the same Question. I do have a Survey mod (scheduled for release tomorrow) that allows this though.

Answer courtesy of AntonLV

All voting blocks in Dolphin uses the same mechanism. You may see it in inc/classes/BxDolVoting.php file. Take a look at method makeVote and the following line in it 

if ($this->isDublicateVote()) return false;

It checks for duplicates. If you simply comment out the line then this check will be disabled for all modules. If you don't want it you may overwrite the class BxDolVoting in Poll module to make the change for this module only.

Works a treat :-)

I understand this thread relates to voting in the Polls Module but I was curious to know if Rating items such as Videos, Articles, Photos, etc across a site are developed in the same way? Thanks guys.

if you mean can members 'rate' again after IP change ... the answer is Yes!

Hmmm. so that makes Rating just as pointless then.

I don't think the voting and rating system was created with serious stats / marketing intelligence in mind ...

Yeah, I'm guessing just for fun kinda modules. Rating probably loosely similar to Facebook's 'likes' in a way.

 Yeah ... I think this should be changed though!

The Survey mod was published which has the ability to choose multiple answers for a particular question.

 This worked for me at time of posting, tried it now on up to date script and wont work!

Any ideas?

 Did you go back and check to see if the change you made in the file got overwritten ?

I tried on a new install. Didnt work!