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Re: Town contest voting temporarily closed
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lugnet.town
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Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:55:20 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Amy Hughes writes:
> In lugnet.town, Ahui Herrera writes:
> > allows only 1 vote per IP address (in essence 1 vote per person).
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> 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.
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 with how the software works but it works.
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> And what you say next indicates that one-vote-per-person isn't even the
> issue...
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Amy
What is wrong with friends voting for me? Is that not how the American
Voting process is? To go out and campiagn for votes? That I happen to
promote my entry more than others is not my fault. Sure I agree some of my
voters did not bother to read my email and just voted for everything and
anything that had my entry on it. That I am sorry for but have no control over.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Why is the contest so important that you feel that you need to campaign for it? Shouldn't the fun of this contest be the simple act of participation? Just to be proud of your accomplishment and to be part of a group of people sharing something (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Um, because I'm not interested in how many mundane friends you have? I'm interested in what your *peers* (as in LEGO fans) think of your work. Even then, I'm only mildly interested in the *outcome* (winner). I'm much more interested in the (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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