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I think it’s perfectly feasible to create a one way hash to represent each user. Easy to generate in one direction (the hash), but impossible to reverse in order to identify the user it was generated from. So in order to ensure that users are not voting multiple times for the same post/thread/comment, all you need to do is check that the hash a user generates doesn’t already exist in the vote record, and if it does, act as a toggle.
You could do that. However, since we already have a “Comments” link, it makes more sense to have the title go to the linked URL. However, I would be happy with anything going directly to the linked URL right now. :)
What I don’t understand is why @ernest doesn’t rush this fix because it would literally cut his server load in half, which I imagine would be of great value to him.