A thought on voting

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As voting seems to be such a contentious issue and appears to give rise to
endless flamewars when conducted within the group, why not just put it on
the web page then it will be annonymous. Then those who are really
interested can vote in peace and group can get on with its primary interest
~ FREEWARE
 
seaside said:
As voting seems to be such a contentious issue and appears to give
rise to endless flamewars when conducted within the group, why not
just put it on the web page then it will be annonymous. Then those
who are really interested can vote in peace and group can get on with
its primary interest ~ FREEWARE
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Though you have an idea I basically support, there are some flaws in it.
It will be next to impossible to stop people from multi voting:

Checking on IP address?
I'll use dial up. Different IP Each session.

Checking Email adresses?
I'll have about 7 or 8, and since I got a domain, I can create ininite
numbers of them.

To do so, you should be able to send the whole population (all possible
voters) an unique number they can use to activate their vote. And even then
thay could (Theoretically at least) buy, sell or give away their activation
number.

Then there are also possibilities to temper with the voting website itself
(I won't go into detail about that).

So the question is weather internetvoting produces the right result remains
open, IMHO
The ones with the highest stakes or the most computer knowledge could still
manipulate the results. Mayby both parties will not manipulate, and maybe
both do the manipulation at the same rate, but you will never be able to
tell the purity of the voting.

These are also the reasons I don't value results of public internet votes
and polls.

But none the less I do admire your effort to get 'all over with it' quickly.

MightyKitten
 
"seaside" <[email protected]> wrote:
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As voting seems to be such a contentious issue and appears to give rise to
endless flamewars when conducted within the group, why not just put it on
the web page then it will be annonymous. Then those who are really
interested can vote in peace and group can get on with its primary interest
~ FREEWARE
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I understand your concerns and apologize for my part in the
contentious threads.

The reason for the in group vote is that the site is supposed to be
derived from the wishes of the people who come here. The idea was a
democracy, and at this point I'm unsure a true democracy can really
work in this dynamic environment. There are many problems, like
validating the voters. It's a great idea. I'm not certain that it is
entirely practical though.

Still, everyone has an opinion and these are expressed and debated
within the threads, as this is of group concern. In most cases the
subject header reflects the content so that anyone uninterested can
skip or even filter the threads out completely. I added "-
Pricelessware" to your subject so that people can avoid even seeing
this thread... if they choose to do so. If they don't, so be it. The
choice is entirely up to each individual reader.

It might be best to reply to an existing thread to assure the ability
to "opt out" to other readers of ACF, rather than to generate a new
thread.

In the end, we do debate to extremes sometimes issues concerning
freeware and it's not always pleasant. It is group dynamics. I don't
personally know anyone here, but I sort of have a second family here
and we do not always agree completely.
 
As voting seems to be such a contentious issue and appears to give
rise to endless flamewars when conducted within the group, why not
just put it on the web page then it will be annonymous.
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Hopefully, this won't spawn more threads on who will have the right to host
the voting site! :)




Aaron (my email is not munged!)
 
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