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Re: Article scoring
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sat, 4 Mar 2000 02:18:03 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:

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. ;-)  Should voting on articles you've written be allowed?

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 into prominence
this way? :)

Richard



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  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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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. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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