Perhaps. Although with that said nearly 1000 people have voted today - compared to between 100-200 on the previous days (excepting the 29th, first day, which had about 600-800). So it's a case of; is the risk worth the reward?
Tom
On 10 June 2011 22:19, Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 14:38, Shane Simmons avicennasis@gmail.com wrote:
Well, the SecurePoll extension has multiple measures built-in that allow
for
easy sock detection. It captures some data in addition to the username
that
would help eliminate those votes.
On a side note: would a simple check for duplicate emails be possible? I received an email for my main and my alt account, which are registered
with
the exact same email address. I'm not sure how the system would decide
which
account gets the email (Perhaps highest edit count?), but I'm sure
someone
could figure out something. :-)
I've received two invitations to vote -- also both at the same e-mail address -- so all I'd have to do now (if it were a user name that didn't make it obvious it was mine) is go somewhere else to vote. And given how low the voting requirements are the software must be sending out multiple invitations to quite a few people.
I can't see how it benefits the project to have multiple accounts voting that only need to have made 300 edits and 20 recent ones, and a kind bot that reminds them of all the eligible account names. We're shooting ourselves in the foot with this, surely.
Sarah
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