you're correct that anonymous voting can never be trusted. that's why any product that implements this kind of polling should have mechanisms to detect and prevent ballot stuffing by itself. there's several ways to do it, like with cookies, or storing IPs, etc jens On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 11:57 , Andy McKay wrote:
It did actually say you had to be logged in to vote on the front page, just not in big clear letters it seemed. The reason for restricting membership is that last time I didnt a whole bunch of people voted lots of times and pushed up numbers for their results. I had to spend a lot of time rummaging through logs finding similar IP addresses and removing those votes. Anonymous voting cannot be trusted, which is a big shame.
That was the one and only reason for membership. -- Andy McKay Agmweb Consulting http://www.agmweb.ca
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Vagelpohl" <jens@zope.com> To: "Zopista" <zopista@zopezen.org> Cc: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 4:49 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope Community Awards Results
andy,
on the link you provide you mused about the relative lack of response. here's the reason why i did not vote:
when i went to the voting page it was openly accessible to anonymous users. i filled it in but only after submitting it was i told that i need a membership. that ticked me off sufficiently to abandon the whole thing.
next time, please guard the whole voting form from anonymous (if you still insist on zopezen membership as a precondition, that is). if the membership requirement had been more clear i might even have joined.
i found that membership requirement a little nonsensical given how your goal was to attract a lot of people to vote. having more site members is great, but if you end up having people create accounts they will never use again just because they have to in order to vote then you probably agree that you overshot on your other goal of increasing site membership ;)
jens
On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 02:18 , Zopista wrote:
Are up at http://www.zopezen.org/Members/zopista/1028873559
In brief:
Best Product: CMF Best core Zope addition: Page Templates Best Zope book: The Zope Book Best Python book: Learning Python Best community web site: ZopeZen Most helpful person: Dieter Maurer
Thanks everyone for taking part. -- Andy McKay Agmweb Consulting http://www.agmweb.ca
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