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To restrict your voters to only allow one vote per day, you can enable the Flood Protection feature for your Vote Caster. This option will prevent another post from being made by the same visitor for exactly 24 hours.
To restrict your voters to only allow one vote per day, you can enable the Flood Protection feature for your Vote Caster. This option will prevent another post from being made by the same visitor for exactly 24 hours.<br />
 
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To enable the Flood Protection feature, please do the following:
To enable the Flood Protection feature, please do the following:<br />
 
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1. Log into Bravenet and click "Vote Caster" in the list of registered services
1. Log into your Bravenet account<br />
2. Click on "General Settings"
2. Make sure you are on the Dashboard<br />
3. In the "Flood Protection" section, select Yes
3. Click on "Vote Caster" in your list of Web Tools<br />
4. Scroll down and click on the "Save Changes" button
4. Click on "General Settings"<br />
 
5. In the "Flood Protection" section, select Yes<br />
The Flood Protection feature relies on both cookie and IP address data to keep track of who has voted. Unfortunately this feature will not work if your voters are all behind a firewall using the same IP.
6. Scroll down and click on the "Save" button<br />
 
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The Flood Protection feature relies on both cookie and IP address data to keep track of who has voted. Unfortunately this feature will not work if your voters are all behind a firewall using the same IP.<br />
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[[Category:Vote Caster]]
[[Category:Vote Caster]]

Latest revision as of 16:15, 2 June 2014

To restrict your voters to only allow one vote per day, you can enable the Flood Protection feature for your Vote Caster. This option will prevent another post from being made by the same visitor for exactly 24 hours.

To enable the Flood Protection feature, please do the following:

1. Log into your Bravenet account
2. Make sure you are on the Dashboard
3. Click on "Vote Caster" in your list of Web Tools
4. Click on "General Settings"
5. In the "Flood Protection" section, select Yes
6. Scroll down and click on the "Save" button

The Flood Protection feature relies on both cookie and IP address data to keep track of who has voted. Unfortunately this feature will not work if your voters are all behind a firewall using the same IP.