vote.block.land - A more reliable way to poll the Blockland community

[Pecon]

Made through the efforts of Carbon Zypher and I, I present to you the new alternative to forum polls.

Example poll
Create a poll for anything Blockland

The thing that makes this polling system different from the forums and other normal polling sites is that vote.block.land requires all voters to use Blockland authentication to cast their vote (or to create a poll). This creates accountability for every vote and prevents poll manipulation.

This is a more convenient solution for polling the in-game community (considering a huge amount of players don't have forum accounts), since all that is needed to vote is a copy of Blockland. No formal sign-up is needed to vote.

To do:
Finish styling a few pages, including the authentication check.
Make the output of vote breakdown more organized.

Credits:
Pecon - Hosting, PHP scripting, MySQL wrangling, and initial (terrible) design.
Carbon Zypher - New page designs, and frontend Javascript.
Basically I did everything in the backend and Carbon designed all the pages that look at all good.


As a side note, I still am offering free subdomains on block.land. So if you have a blockland service or website and want to use block.land for it, feel free to PM me.

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[The Murderous Cop]

holy forget
this is gonna prevent so much vote rigging in the future
thanks so much

[Darryl McKoy]

Is there anything stopping people using a bunch of alt blockland keys to vote though?

[The Murderous Cop]

Is there anything stopping people using a bunch of alt blockland keys to vote though?

I feel like it either saves a cookie that permanently binds you to that account, or binds your IP to that account.
IP changes aren't hard though sadly

[Pecon]

Is there anything stopping people using a bunch of alt blockland keys to vote though?

The design discourages it from the common user by simply not providing a way to exit your session, but slightly knowledgeable users can get around that pretty easily. So in short, no.

[Darryl McKoy]

The design discourages it from the common user by simply not providing a way to exit your session, but slightly knowledgeable users can get around that pretty easily. So in short, no.

I don't think the common user was the one manipulating the votes here lol. "Prevents poll manipulation" is a bit misleading.

[Pecon]

I don't think the common user was the one manipulating the votes here lol. "Prevents poll manipulation" is a bit misleading.

The majority of poll manipulation on the forums is actually done by registering accounts without a key, since they can still vote without one. I believe this system prevents a great deal of manipulation simply because of that. Additionally, you can use the vote breakdown to see who voted and potentially spot anyone with a large number of alts if they don't take the time to name them inconspicuously.

[DrHitius]

You should create a menu to view other votes people have made so other people can vote too

[EcstaticEggplant]

You should create a menu to view other votes people have made so other people can vote too

Nah I don't think this should be a feature as polls should be kept to whatever thread they are used in, so people don't randomly vote and skew the results.

[Dragonoid.Slayer]

Although this is a great idea, I don't think that people will revert from forum polls and change to this, additionally, I think that players would rather use an in game poll add-on for votes and such.

[Headcrab Zombie]

Does this somehow verify that you actually are the username you claim?

[K3k0m@n]

please make it so if the option is 'badspot', make it so you can click 'badspot' to trigger it's checkbox

[Wesley Williams]

Does this somehow verify that you actually are the username you claim?

Yes, that's why it doesn't work on mobile. This is fantastic, thanks Pecon and Carbon!

[Pecon]

Does this somehow verify that you actually are the username you claim?

It uses the auth server to verify the name, much like Blockland servers do.

please make it so if the option is 'badspot', make it so you can click 'badspot' to trigger it's checkbox

I'll make sure that's fixed when we do the style on that page.

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