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Re: Town contest voting temporarily closed
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lugnet.town
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Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:57:06 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Ahui Herrera writes:
> allows only 1 vote per IP address (in essence 1 vote per person).
The majority of people get a new IP address every time they sign in. They tend
to get IP addresses that are clustered, so it's possible to spot ballot
stuffing by IP address, but they will be able to vote from many IP addresses.
And what you say next indicates that one-vote-per-person isn't even the
issue...
> my friends who voted for me
> today (I sent emails to 50+ people at work and over 100+
> on my mailing list) told me that they DID NOT have the
> time to see every other category. So most just voted
> for me on the medium size category and the specials.
In other words, they did the ballot stuffing for you. It's worse than ballot
stuffing because you didn't even do the work yourself.
It has become obvious that opening the voting to any other than those who
entered the contest and lugnet members isn't going to work, and I retract my
offer to write and host a voting mechanism.
Amy
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 | | Re: Town contest voting temporarily closed
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| (...) The software engine that is used on From Bricks to Banthans does not allow multiple voting from the same machine. I'm not sure how it does it, but I would imagine that it uses both an IP address and cookies. As I said before I am not familiar (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | Re: Town contest voting temporarily closed
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| I like the idea of saying that you can't vote for yourself as well. I think we will get better results. Amy Hughes <lugnews@public.atreides.org> wrote in message news:G92q76.7IH@lugnet.com... (...) tend (...) addresses. (...) ballot (...) my (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Town contest voting temporarily closed
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| Might I make several suggestions. 1) If you are concerned about multiple voting use the poll taking engine that is used by the webiste From Bricks to Bantans. They use an engine that allows only 1 vote per IP address (in essence 1 vote per person). (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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