Fri, 21 May 2010 11:00:32 -0400, Bane wrote: > 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.
What is more interesting is that the majority of D users already use D2, which has a huge list of bugs. It just tells that most D users don't use D in serious / mission critical / money bringing projects, but instead as a hobby.
