[Foundation-l] Board election spamming

[Philippe Beaudette]

Generally speaking, that means that the user appears to have voted  
more than once, or from more than one username on more than one  
project.  The line denotes that vote has been struck.

Philippe


On Aug 8, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Pavlo Shevelo wrote:

>> The list of users who have voted is available at
>> https://wikimedia.spi-inc.org/index.php/Special:SecurePoll/list/17
>
> Some names/nicks there appeared crossed (by horizontal  line).
> Would somebody please explain what does it mean?
>
>
> 2009/8/8 Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/8/8 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>
>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:09 PM, private musings<thepmaccount at gmail.com 
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>> No silly - it's a mistake! (don't be so grumpy..... - or be aware  
>>>> that
>>> this
>>>> could come across as grumpy at least)
>>>>
>>>> I recall the grumbles when Greg sent something out last year or  
>>>> the year
>>>> before, and feel the same about this as that - the folk sending  
>>>> the email
>>>> are using an imperfect system, but overall it's worth it - I'm  
>>>> hope that
>>>> those feeling personally affronted by such an approach can take  
>>>> solace in
>>>> something or other, and just generally relax a notch or two.... :-)
>>>
>>> Oh, I am not affronted.
>>>
>>> I am thrilled that the election committee decided that computer
>>> engineers should be rewarded for their ingenuity by allowing their
>>> fine opinion to be counted twice.
>>>
>>> This motivates me to write more bots for next year.
>>>
>>> p.s. can the election committee ensure that votes from bot accounts
>>> are not counted??
>>>
>>> p.p.s. if I can have another free vote, I will gladly write a bot to
>>> help the election committee to discount bot votes...
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Vandenberg
>>>
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>>
>> The list of users who have voted is available at
>> https://wikimedia.spi-inc.org/index.php/Special:SecurePoll/list/ 
>> 17 , and I
>> know the committee will be more than happy for any help received. ;-)
>>
>> --
>> Jon Harald Søby
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by
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