Ban users to vote for theiselves

[wiren]

Some users of mine use to vote their own pictures, of course they like them and even if the pic is bad they give it a generous five/five !

This is awful, for we have few votes too and it is enough to auto-vote for your pic to jump on the top-rated... a real shame

So, it there a way to ban users to vote their own photos? I know cmine identify the one who votes, for if you try to vote a second time a pic you are not able to, coppermine tells you you already voted the pic...

How can we hack this to ban the same user to vote?


Thank you and have anice sunday.

[Tarique Sani]

Even if they can vote - they can vote only once....

[jdbaranger]

Hello,

Excuse-me but they can vote every keep_votes_time days.

This suggestion is a very good idea.

Jean-Denis

[DJMaze]

why let people vote 2 times on same pic ?

[jdbaranger]

So here the way of prohibiting the vote for its own pictures :

In Language File ( ex : French.php )

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'rate_ok' => 'Your vote was accepted',

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'forbidden' => 'You cannot rate your own pictures.',

In ratepic.php

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$sql = "SELECT a.votes as votes_allowed, p.votes as votes, pic_rating " . "FROM {$CONFIG['TABLE_PICTURES']} AS p, {$CONFIG['TABLE_ALBUMS']} AS a " . "WHERE p.aid = a.aid AND pid = '$pic' LIMIT 1";

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$sql = "SELECT a.votes as votes_allowed, p.votes as votes, pic_rating, owner_id " . "FROM {$CONFIG['TABLE_PICTURES']} AS p, {$CONFIG['TABLE_ALBUMS']} AS a " . "WHERE p.aid = a.aid AND pid = '$pic' LIMIT 1";

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// Update picture rating
$new_rating = round(($row['votes'] * $row['pic_rating'] + $rate * 2000) / ($row['votes'] + 1));

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//Test for Self-Rating
$user=USER_ID;
$owner=$row['owner_id'];
if ($user==$owner) cpg_die(ERROR, $lang_rate_pic_php['forbidden'], __FILE__, __LINE__);

Jean-Denis

[jdbaranger]

why let people vote 2 times on same pic ?

By default, you can vote every 30 days for the same picture.
I made a MOD to allow this value be editable.
Search in forums for "Allow multiple vote - Define Votes Time-To-Live"

Jean-Denis