Nothing really serious. These pages simply offer you the opportunity to name a person which you think ought to receive some appreciation.
The name of the person and - in order to make clear who is meant - the country and the location.
Well, this is where it starts to become difficult. Just take the country and the city that best fits to the person. For a really well-known person it might be sufficient to to state only the country. If you know it, you might want to use the place of birth. Or just take the place where the person is living right now.
No!
Yes - the program does calculate a hash value (a "checksum") from some parameters - your actual IP address, your language preferences, etc. - and it does save this value. But at least I do not know any possibility to calculate the original data from such a hash.
This is to say - the program remembers that some was here already - but it can't tell who you are.
No. But at least I can't do it. And even if I could, I wouldn't.
I you really feel like you need to you will find ways to vote more than once a day. I really do not want to bother with people who intentionally break the rules. Maybe one day I build something that will prevent this. Right now it may happen.
The first list shows the last 20 names (and locations) of those people, that have been named lately - just to show that something is going on. The list is being updated every few seconds.
The second list show the top ten named persons over the the last 24 hours. This list also gets updated every few seconds.
Indeed - it does. Simply close the site if you don't need it anymore.
Until I delete them from the database. Right now I do not intent to.
Well - can't answer this. For sure some day someone is going to go against it. I argue that, if X is writing something on a wall and names Y, then Y can't do anything about is. If I will notice some abuse, I will try to do something against it.
Right - for the location as well. This way I want to make sure that people that have been named before can be "found".
Simply write me under what data you are being mentioned and add something that proves that you are this person. I'll remove you then.
Because I do not create any cookies.
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