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  • Poll ballots seen with more than the allowed maximum number of answers

    From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Sep 20 20:17:20 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/642#note_4232

    Yes, DDMsgReader (and SlyVote) didn't implement single-answer poll voting properly (they weren't using a bitwise operation to set the 'votes' property of the response header). I've made a fix and a merge request.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Thu Sep 21 00:14:02 2023
    close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/642

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Mon Sep 25 16:50:36 2023
    reopen https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/642

    Posting a poll and specifying a maximum number of answers per ballot (e.g. limiting to 1 answer out of 4 possible answers), when that poll message is subsequently imported into QWKnet nodes, it appears that user can cast ballots with more the maximum number of votes per ballot (i.e. selecting more answers than the pollster desired).

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Sep 25 16:50:59 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/642#note_4258

    I should add some validation when importing ballots to not allow more than the expected number of answers (votes) per ballot.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tue Jun 18 10:16:21 2024
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/642#note_5372

    Here's another sighting:
    ```
    On Mon Jun 17 2024 04:36 pm, in DOVE-Net Synchronet Discussion
    themintyuser (MORPHEUS) voted in your poll: New SBBS installs should prevent new users from echo-posting?
    û Yes, new users should not have network posting privileges
    û No, a sysop should opt-in to restrictions on new users
    ```

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