On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > > Chris Riley wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, 18:20 Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Additionally, given that this CoC has far reaching consequences, I would >>>> suggest opening up voting on it's implementation to a wider segment of >>>> the >>>> community eg those currently subscribed to the PHP mailing lists or at >>>> least those who have recently participated on one. >>>> >>>> ~C >>>> >>>> >>> wouldn't that allow sock puppeting and vote brigading? >>> >>> -- >>> Ferenc Kovács >>> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu >>> >>> >> And that won't happen on this rfc regardless? >> > > At least for sockpuppeting, not without obvious abuse of power it can't. > Every new VCS account request is posted to the mailing list. New accounts > can't just appear out of nowhere without it being obvious, so sockpuppeting > (without long-established sockpuppets) isn't possible. > > Vote brigading *could* be an issue, but you can only do that if you have a > large "brigade" of people with PHP VCS accounts. I don't think there is one. > > However, opening the vote up to a wider audience makes these two > possibilites more likely. > > I was replying to the suggestion on allowing every mailing list subscriber/participant to have a vote, that would indeed allow sockpuppeting and vote brigading, that was my issue with it.
-- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
