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How many votes do poll receive from unregistered voters?
We often say that Home Page polls being buried under the Editor's picks doesn't help them to get visibility. It is true. But, I look at the other lists in the Editor's Picks section and they all have 10 000+ views. Granted a good part of those are repeated viewing, but still. It is not true that a Homepage poll gets only 600 votes. In reality, it probably gets at least 10 times that amount, but only votes from registered voters are compiled, and therefore it appears that only 600 people voted.
Perhaps, in reality, I have got 910 000 votes (if you count unregistered voters).
Note: I'm not saying that we should open the polls to unregistered voters. It would open the door to bots to sabotage our work.
Tsarstepan
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No one can vote without registering with IMDb. That said, it used to be far more difficult to create an account with bots. They used to require a credit card (a very short lived verification method) several years ago.
Any vote rigging by bots are done by bots creating fake IMDb accounts.
Test it. Sign out of your IMDb account. Vote for a poll. Then refresh the polling page. I've accidentally tried to vote for polls while not properly signed into my account. The vote doesn't stick unless you're signed into an IMDb account.
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TheOldJalapenoman
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Unregistered voters voting? Sounds a lot like the famous illegal alien votes in California and the people voting multiple times in some states and the famous Illinois cemetery votes and the Dominion machines consistently changing everything to democrap votes and 150,000 new votes showing up at 3 a.m. and mysteriously found mail in ballots and ballot boxes and all of the other fraud from the democraps in recent years.
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Dibyayan_Chakravorty
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Website registration makes the results of the polls valid. Tracking who voted for whom is necessary for a clean system.
To get a handsome number of votes, what you (we) really need is a separate section of polls at IMDb Home Page.
Discussed here:
Please Bring Back Poll Section in IMDb Home Page
IMDb pages are going through some GUI based changes. Once, the process is completed IMDb will start publishing polls at home page like they used to do, as said by Col Needham.
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Dibyayan_Chakravorty
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I am using this post as a throwback to IMDb Home Page polls.
Let's see how many of you remember those moments. I am using my polls' that went to home page, screenshot as examples.
Before July 28, 2015 (the comeback day of IMDb Home Page Polls) the polls were used to feature like this.
First two options' pictures used as display.
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