On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > We should limit voting, and limit based on IP. If we go via email, > then anyone wishing extra votes merely needs to use mailinator.com > (and its dozens of alternate domain names, to say nothing of > competitors providing similar services) to vote as many times as they > want. If we care about fraud, then it would be a very troublesome task > to filter out all those ways to fraudulently vote; if we don't care > about fraud, then email confirms are just a burden on honest users.
I don't know about other people, but for me it takes less time to change IP addresses than to sign up for a mail account. dhclient -r dsl0 && dhclient dsl0 vs. fill in a form on a webpage. --Max _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe