marlowsd: > Sterling Clover wrote: >> IP based limitations are a terrible idea. Multiple users can be and >> often are behind the same IP if they're in some sort of intranet, be it >> corporate, academic, or simply multiple home computers. Mail-based >> authentication can be screwed with, sure, but it's also very easy to >> notice this (as opposed to ip nonsense) through simply eyeballing the >> results. There's no general everywhere way to prevent vote fraud. >> However, if we make it even require a mild bit of thought, that should >> be sufficient in this case, as there won't be enough votes to prevent >> some sort of rough eyeball-based check of the results, and if there >> are, then that's a sign of fraud for sure! Furthermore, there's very >> little incentive for someone to go the extra mile here, as we're voting >> for a haskell logo, and not, e.g., giving away ten thousand dollars. >> Furthermore, since I assume we'll only be presenting reasonable logos, >> there's not even some room for pranksters to stage a "write-in" of some >> gag slogan. > > I suggest we do voting by email, and restrict voting to those who have > ever posted on haskell-cafe before 1 Jan 2009. We could then have an > auto-confirmation scheme similar to mailing list sign-up where the > confirmation message is sent back to the originator to confirm their > identity, containing a verification link to click on. > > I realise there are flaws in this, but it seems to be (a) cheap to > implement and participate in, and (b) good enough.
Seems good enough. Who's going to tally the votes? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe