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.
Cheers,
Simon
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