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(...) I completely agree with Jennifer. As I stated before, we're not running State elections we're voting for a hobby organization. The problem about false votes has been blown way out a proportion. It may be a problem if we had 1000's of people (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) OK, would that be sufficient? Only LUGNET(tm) members can be members? Is that too exclusionary? It's certainly simple enough. If it IS too exclusionary, what scheme would you suggest for those potential members who are not LUGNET members? (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Just to get people thinking, since maybe we're stuck... try this strawman To be an ldraw.org member, you have to supply 3 things, all of which are retained in a DB for validation (but not made public) 1. your real name 2. a working email (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Lemme see... 1) Amy Hughes 2) lugnews@IXNAYONTHEAM...hughes.org 3) lugnet # 928 and 1) Nancy Drew 2) ndrew@NYETSPAMthelor...houses.com (yep, that's me) 3) gimme a week or so to create and use an FBTB account and 1) Fred Smith 2) (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) OK, so you favor requireing a drivers license or something else more stringent then? Or restricting it to just LUGNET members only? or what? And you're OK if you go to 0 votes if any two of these are discovered to be the same when probed? What (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I got friends. I therefore got lots of drivers licenses :-) (...) Obviously I'll have to show up in person at 1 Ldraw Plaza to submit some DNA :-) (...) Humor? And to demonstrate that creating multiple means of verification may defeat the (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) This last suggestion sounds like having a membership packet. I like the idea of having a membership package, possibly packaged with a CD of current LDraw editors, tools, library, (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Amy, nice to see a sense of humor to let a little of this pressure off ;^) I don't think LUGNET membership by itself is too much to ask. It won't do any good though unless LUGNET runs the voting and requires your lugnet password to cast a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Which brings up an interesting point... a single sign-in/membership system for the community at large, similar to Passport or similar. Something that provides a single solution for all organizations/sites that might need to do something (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think the letter idea is the best one yet. I was going to post something like this last night, but you beat me to it. :P It's analogous to Lugnet's membership packet, but less intensive to administer. Even a post card with a unique text (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Sorry to respond to my own post, but it would be simple to automatically generate and check the confirmation codes. Just create a hash of the person's info along with some "salt" This is easy to do with gnupg : ) Have a program generate (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I thought of implementing something like that a while ago - except that it seems that it would require more cooperation between the different sites involved than is currently available to draw upon. Dan (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) How so? At least among Peeron, LUGNET and ldraw.org (in it's new reconstituted form with members) all that presumably would need to happen is for you and Todd to agree, ne? (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I like this idea a lot. Who cares about the instant gratification aspect. I say that if you want the ability to vote, you have to care enough to wait a couple of weeks. -Orion (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think that the privileges would need to change as you move from site to site. Peeron and LUGNET have blanket memberships: every member at these sties pretty much has the same privileges (as far as I know, only admins and moderators have (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, I would agree, I meant to mention I was thinking of that as a medium/long term solution. Sorry about that. (...) If you use the Passport (or really any other similar system, I just can't think of names off the top of my head) concept, (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That's okay. I recognized that pretty quickly. Organizations need long term visions as well as short term. Hopefully the short term solution easily transitions into the long term stable solution. Otherwise, we may be seeing this same sort of (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) The above set sounds OK to me. (...) I think you've found a good balance by the set above. Todd has mentioned a system for cross-checking IDs for uniqueness elsewhere in this thread, which I think is important to be able to claim an off-site (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) look at Amy's post, and what she pointed out. For making sure each member is unique, the list (that I snipped) doesn't help. But I suggest we move on anyway, and just require a unique working email address for now. We can try to think of other (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Right. I (perhaps naiively) assumed the DB cross-checking would help solve that. (...) Cool :-) I'm glad we aren't stuck. -Tim (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) great! So what's the next step? Dan (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) ...on the technical end of things, I think we should get a voting and membership system in place. Once that has been taken care of and tested, open up membership for the purpose of electing the first LSC. -Tim (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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