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| (...) The only reason I read Slashdot is because of the article scoring. Not a bad system, that. But I'm enough of a narcissist that I'd be prone to artificially boost the score on my own messages. And I suspect I'm not alone. (You know who you are. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Maybe a simple IP check? It's not perfect, but if someone goes to all the trouble of getting different IP addresses to vote from, then maybe they have something important to say! I wonder if someone would click their market.auction posting (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) IMHO, it absolutely should be allowed, yes! The worst you could artificially boost the scores on your own messages is relatively tiny anyway -- once a few other people also have cast votes. I would also argue that it's not necessarily (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) It'll just use the Member ID to verify who you are. All magically and transparently through cookies. You have to be logged in, of course, and only Members can moderate (cast votes). (...) The system would enforce one vote per person, so the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Ah, that makes *all* the difference! The danger of someone taking out 100 LUGNET memberships to skew the votes and always have the most 'interesting' messages.. isn't really a danger! Richard (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) LOL! I'd be willing to endure that as long as it supports lugnet ;-) -Shiri (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Besides just having the final vote result (score), it would also be nice to know how many people have actually voted. Another very useful feature would be to be able to sort posts in different ways. Right now they are just listed in (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) In that case, provide a method for a poster to pre-vote on their message when they post it. Steve (24 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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