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Subject: 
Re: Contest Ideas?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Sat, 5 Dec 1998 01:49:59 GMT
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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 22:18:51 GMT, "Felix Greco" <pgreco77@ufl.edu>
wrote:

Jeff Stembel writes:

I like the voting idea myself, but you'd need someway to make sure people only
vote once (1).

I would rather do the voting method but it seems like with Email there would be
too many ways to get lots of votes in.  Not to say I don't trust anyone, but I
would like to set this up as fair as possible.

Not having actual prizes would help minimize the impulse of someone to
cheat.
I like to think the people here are mature enough to not have to stoop
to such stupid things anyway.
I believe there are ways to check email origins to filter out
duplicate submissions.   That would solve the problem, unless some
Super-Hacker Mastermind like Marilou decided to tackle it (1)

-- Terry K --
1.  Tongue firmly in cheek



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(...) I'd like to generate interest, and I'm not sure if only having a spiffy award icon would inspire people to build something as cool as... oh I don't know... a ULV-017 (I loved it m'man). Having a rule that only one vote per email address might (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)

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(...) I would rather do the voting method but it seems like with Email there would be too many ways to get lots of votes in. Not to say I don't trust anyone, but I would like to set this up as fair as possible. (...) I don't see why that would be a (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)

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