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Re: Town contest voting temporarily closed
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lugnet.town
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Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:32:15 GMT
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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...
> 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.
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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.
>
> Amy
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Town contest voting temporarily closed
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| (...) I don't think that entrants for themselves matters all that much. It's the entrants' non-FOL friends that are skewing the results. I don't have any suggestions on how to handle this, except to limit voting to contestants, or have people (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | Re: Town contest voting temporarily closed
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| (...) Well I can give at least one reason why not being allowed to vote for yourself might be counter productive. For example say there are 5 entrants in a catagory and I feel the following. 1. My entry (can't vote for me) 2. Really cool layout I (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Town contest voting temporarily closed
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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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