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David Gerard schrieb:
I suggest that we allow ratings by anonymous users (IP
numbers), at least
in 1.5.
Reasons for this:
* we've always worked by leaving things as open as possible and only
restricting as needed;
* we're explicitly not using the data for anything important yet, so if ten
thousand rating spammers put [[Image:Autofellatio.jpg]] top marks for
everything, it won't actually affect anything;
* the raw data will be of great interest to people, and as wide as possible
is good. (I can see the academics studying Wikipedia slavering for the
ratings data tarball ;-)
Two reasons against this:
* Later, we will allow only logged-in users to rate articles, right?
Otherwise, we'll lose a great part of the perceived reliability
improvement, IMHO. But how can we really set up this system if the data
we use as a foundation for the decision is based on anon entries as well?
* Currently, I store only user IDs with the ratings. Since anons don't
have user IDs, I'd have to change the SQL table for that, in addition to
"just" some code, which means work for me ;-)
Magnus
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