Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > "Nick Sabalausky" <a...@a.a> wrote in message > news:ht3uj4$30f...@digitalmars.com... > > "div0" <d...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message > > news:ht3tfa$2sm...@digitalmars.com... > >> > >> I'm surprised so many people who don't use D bother to read this news > >> group and voted on the poll. Surely they must have better things to do. > >> > > > > I have a few guesses for that phonomenon: > > > ... > > > > - Troll and/or trolls. I turned on "enable IP logging", but I didn't turn > > on "prevent multiple votes from same IP", since shared IPs are fairly > > common. Maybe GirlProgrammer's been messing with it. Or maybe the Reddit > > D-Downvoters found it. Maybe I made a mistake by not preventing multiple > > votes from same IP. Maybe if it turn that on it'll apply > > retro-actively...or maybe not? I dunno, I really should get around to > > making my own poll software. > > > ... > > > > I've looked into this a little. I was able to download a chart of the IPs, > and the number of votes per IP. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any > way to tell anything about the actual votes from a particular IP, which I > suppose is good for privacy, but it prevents me from looking at an IP with > multiple votes and determining if all of the votes were suspiciously > strongly favoring the one option. > > There are 105 IPs. The vast majority of the IPs only had one vote. There > were five IPs that had two votes each, and one IP that had three votes. I'm > willing to assume those are just multiple people from the same ISP, and even > if not they're not particularly significant compared to the rest. But then > there was one IP with 72 votes. So, yea, that does seem suspicious. In case > anyone thinks they might have more insight, the IP in question is > 115.131.192.250, and appears to be from Austrailia. > >
Thats great. It proves my point - even D trolls are loyal to the project. 72 votes? That is some dedication.