Plugin Author
shauno
(@shauno)
Hi nchkonya
When I look at the page, the source code seems to indicate that all the images are voted 3/5 stars. That seems unlikely, but I’ve never seen a problem like that before.
In the ‘Manage Gallery’ screen, do all the images have different average votes?
Hi, again. It is really strange and in the ‘Manage Gallery’ screen they all have “Current Avg: 3 / 5 stars”,(average~640 votes cast). But checking votes I found out that most votes are from one IP 95.211.81.86 Can it be any aside scripting? Or it is normal?
Plugin Author
shauno
(@shauno)
It would seem a bot hit the site, and for some reason choose to follow the 3 out of 5 stars link every time 🙂
You can probably add a rule to your robots.txt or maybe your .htaccess to stop bots following those links, but only ‘good’ bots will respect those rules.
I will investigate better ways to stop bots voting, but I can’t say anyone has told me they’ve had a similar problem before.
Thanks, shauno. I damped all votes and started again – now only registered users can vote. You think bots will register and vote or vote without registration?
Plugin Author
shauno
(@shauno)
Bots won’t go through the effort of trying to register, and the plugin won’t let non-logged in users vote if you have the setting on.
You should be all good now 🙂
Thank you very much! I like your plugin.
