[Foundation-l] Board election spamming

Pavlo Shevelo pavlo.shevelo at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 20:03:10 UTC 2009


> 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. ;-)
>
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> Jon Harald Søby
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