On 10/06/2011 5:55 PM, Sarah wrote:
[...] that the software is actively inviting all accounts that meet those requirements, it means we're alerting all the socks that they're able to vote. They might otherwise not even have remembered some of the accounts the software is reminding them of.
This is just not a good idea.
You are begging a number of questions: - that the proportion of socks accounts is significant to begin with - that many of those sock accounts will vote because of the reminder that otherwise would not have - that the number of resulting fraudulent votes will be more significant than the number of *valid* votes the email will have generated; and - that even a statistically significant number of sock votes would overweight the benefits of the increased voter turnout.
I don't believe any of those presumptions are valid.
-- Coren / Marc