To prevent unlimited votes for users clearing LocalStorage

  • So, I had an issue a while ago on my site with a user who wanted to have some fun with the votes of a post, and ran a script to give it 5600+ upvotes, by clearing LocalStorage between each vote.

    What I wonder is, could there be any workaround to prevent this? Perhaps a global vote count limit for a certain time, or something… I’m not sure. Do you have any suggestion how to stop it from happening again?

    Thanks for a great plugin by the way, works well even though I have 220+ entries loading at once on home.

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  • Plugin Author Ricard Torres

    (@quicoto)

    Yeah the plugin is just too simple to prevent any of that. There are more complex plugins out there with IP logging and such.

    The way the votes are stored here is in the post metadata table. There no info about date or who, just a field for plus votes and another field for minus votes. That’s all.

    If that’s something that happens to you, I’d perhaps suggest using a different plugin.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Ricard Torres.
    Thread Starter Alexander Agnarson

    (@alxmedia)

    Thanks for the super quick response.

    I guess I will just keep my fingers crossed that no one does it again for now.

    I did look around for other plugins after it happened some months ago, like WP-ULike, but it seem to be pretty heavy and I’m not sure how it would handle loading 220+ post votes at once.

    Do you know of any other plugin that is well-coded and lightweight that could handle it?

    Plugin Author Ricard Torres

    (@quicoto)

    Afraid not, it has been ages since I last search for them.

    Thread Starter Alexander Agnarson

    (@alxmedia)

    Alright, thank you anyway.

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