Title: prevent the same user rating same post
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# prevent the same user rating same post

 *  Resolved [sky790312](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sky790312/)
 * (@sky790312)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-the-same-user-rating-same-post/)
 * can the rating record with user not with ip/cookie ?
    (prevent the same user 
   rating the same post twice) or any other idea to do prevent it happened ?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-the-same-user-rating-same-post/#post-5247302)
 * Yes by default it uses ip/cookie to prevent double rating. But there are ways
   around it like using a proxy as well.
 *  Thread Starter [sky790312](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sky790312/)
 * (@sky790312)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-the-same-user-rating-same-post/#post-5247426)
 * sorry,i still don’t know how to do..
    can u tell me how to do clearly ??
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-the-same-user-rating-same-post/#post-5247432)
 * WP-Admin -> Ratings -> Ratings Options. Under “Ratings Logging Method” set “Logged
   by Cookie and IP”
 * If it does not work, try using the default twentyforteen theme.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-the-same-user-rating-same-post/#post-5247432)
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