I have to comment on this ridiculous ambiguous poll

Can someone tell me what that totally ambiguous and dumb poll that appears in the top right corner is all about??

Its like, 'Register Globals?' and im like WTF??? what on earth is the darn question?? that poll is a total waste of time.

Register globals is a setting in the PHP.ini file. It is widley considered a risk to have Register Globals on. Refer to the PHP Manual for a more in depth description.

I am guessing anonymous voted as a 'Huh?' . I figured there would be those that did not know, so that is why there is a 'Huh?' answer....

Well Pal.. The poll was my idea, and Matt put it up. Here is a wild idea.... If you don't like the poll don't participate. I hope I am not being to "ambiguous"

no, i know what they are and what they do, but the thing is, if went up to you and said 'Register globals?' what would you say? youd say, huh??, just like im saying, what was the question?? you have just made a statement, there was no question that i could see.

Please...you are at a PHP site. You have no grounds for an arguement here. Why are you even wasting your time with it?

On the subject of polls: I noticed that when I logged a vote it turned into a rather fetching graph.

Trouble is, when I go back on it's back to asking for an answer (also lets in multiple votes). Any chance you could log members that have voted and display the graphs when they log back on instead of the poll again?

Lets me know how Linux is doing in the current one then ;)

Right now it just tracks IP addresses. I have been meaning to also add a cookie tracker. Anyway I do it though there will be ways around it ...

But I wanna see if Linux is winning (I know it is really - I'm just being churlish and juvenile!)

Linux is kicking butt and taking names

Linux (57%)
FreeBSD (9%)
MacOS (5%)
Windows (26%)
Other (3%)

Come on freebsd!

Windows on 26% eh? I thought the definitition of OS is Operating System - which should mean a system that operates correctly for more than 20 mins after a reboot (meow)! :laugh:

Matt, if you want fool-proof polls simply add a field or two to the member record; this can store polls that each member has participated in, and will let you see what unique votes have been made, never letting the same member vote twice (or if so, overwriting the original vote). One could vote anonymously but you could at least discern the different voters (member/not) and perhaps use this in statistical analysis of the validity of poll results. A single string/varchar would be sufficient. Comma delimited, pollid,votevalue,pollid,votevalue,... etc. Multiple values could be associated with a single poll... you get the jist. I doubt if size would be an issue but I would be very interested if it were.