Ask HN: How would you anonymize the voting system for Reddit?
Since I want to keep the data anonymous I thought about anonymizing the IP address? The system doesn't have to be perfect and I realize an apartment building, company, etc may have multiple users at the same IP address. For instance, take the IP address of "215.54.387.9"...if I simply use "215.54.387" and leave out the last "9" is that enough so that votes cannot be traced back to who voted for it? My understanding is that a government entity, etc needs to match the HTTP referer in combination w/ the IP address to track down the user's information, or am I wrong? Also, how would I deal with IPV6 addresses?
Is there a better way than w/ trying to anonymize the IP Addresses?