Hi,
some webmaster are very clever ...
they intigrate the rating box ( rate my homesite ) and
put the value thing in the code.

If you rate with 1 or 5 or 10 ... the rating result is always 10 !!!
I bold it out in the following html code.

This can´t be the sense of the rating system !

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CAN SOMEONE HELP ME OUT TO PREVEND THIS IN FUTURE ??????
How can i stop this ??????
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Greetings,
Fantanis

You could ban this person's rating by adding something like this to your ratehome.cgi in the sub rate_it

or if you didn't won't to ban them you could have the rating equal a value that you set instead of the &site_html_rate_failure.

Jimmy Crow
http://www.homewithgod.com/

Huh,
i don´t want to ban nobody ... hmm

ANY OTHER IDEAS ? Its a big problem.

Greetings

Other people have had this problem and there is really no way you can keep people from changing the codes that you give him that I know of. The only alternative that I can think of short of banning that ID would be to have that id always have a rating of 5 or whatever you wanted to give him.

You could say if $ID eq 593 $rating eq 5 (I believe this could be replaced in the codes above with a little changes)

If you set the rating to equal a certain number regardless of the real rating maybe you would discourage him from trying to cheat or remove the box.

Jimmy Crow
http://www.homewithgod.com/

Ok thanks !

i am thinking over it !

Cheers,
Fantanis

Why would you even bother wasting your time with one guy/girl who feels it necessary to cheat? Why don't simply send an email asking them to not cheat....or better yet, just remove the link?? I don't think it would be that difficult replacing them. I personally don't like cheaters.........

Yeah, no kidding. Ban him, or do what cgi-resources.com does. They put them up on display as De-listed due to Rate-It! abuse:
http://www.cgi-resources.com/rate/rated.html

That'll teach everyone that you won't tolerate cheaters.

In your email responder, reduce the External "Rate" link to simply:

<a href="<%db_cgi_url%>/rate.cgi?ID=<%ID%>" target="_new">Rate Our Site!</a>

Or, some variation of that.

This way, the visitor can only apply the rating through your link site.

i wouldn't think twice..delete ID link !

gregor