[Zope] Zope Community Awards Results

[Andy McKay]

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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