Okay, I think you are taking this "don't vote twice" way too far.
I voted in the CFDJ awards because it was a quick, easy way to support
services and products I liked. If you make it no longer quick and easy, the
only votes are going to come from people who have a stake in the outcome or
who have way too much spare time.
Of course, I'm participating in this, so maybe I fit the second category.
Anyway, you have to make it pretty painless for the voter -- otherwise there
won't be any.
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Mike Randolph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:57 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: Re: House of Fusion Awards
:
:
: Hello,
:
: Get together a list of 1000 ColdFusion Questions and present 25 at
: random. To vote you need to score 60% or better? This along with some
: careful monitoring of the voting process would allow anyone in the CF
: community to vote and would assure it was representative of the CF
: community at large, it also would allow for House of Fusion to
: expand there
: list with real users.
:
: Maybe make it a hundred questions and have an Award for the person that
: does the best to further slow the vote stuffing process and
: shield from bad
: votes?
:
: Cheers,
: Mike Randolph
:
: At 12:07 PM 6/5/2003 -0800, you wrote:
: >Hello,
: >
: >It's always been a popularity contest/subscriber drive and everyone would
: >have the same fair shake in regards to getting family and friends to
: >vote... so long as everyone has an equal vote. Me living in a town where
: >we only have 18 kids in the local school from K-12 actually puts me at a
: >disadvantage in these regards. But I really still do like the idea of
: >requiring a credit card to vote and donating the money do a worthy
: >charity. That would keep the fraudulent voting to a minimum. Either way
: >we've seen about 1000 votes for the CFDJ voting and it doesn't go up that
: >much each day, I truly don't think it would be an enormous task
: to keep the
: >voting semi-square.
: >
: >Cheers,
: >Mike Randolph
: >
: >At 03:54 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
: > >Well I think that anyone that signs up after a certain date
: shouldn't be
: > >allowed to vote.
: > >Reasoning is that it prevents a rush of people sent by the companies
: > >being represented to vote for that company's product.
: > >
: > >Take things to the extreme.
: > >
: > >Take for example if Ablecommerce is up for an award, then Mike
: could get
: > >everyone in his little town of Alaska to join HOF and vote for his able
: > >commerce program.This may be extreme, but it could very well
: happen, and
: > >in that case it wouldn't be people in the community or from
: the industry
: > >that are voting for the products. It would be just people
: signing up and
: > >artificially inflating a vote.
: > >
: > >The point of the thing is to have people who are a part of coldfusion
: > >and use coldfusion to do the voting. Not Jack Hick Dooby who sells
: > >sealskins and is getting paid 5 bucks to signup and click for
: a product.
: > >
: > >-Gel
: > >
: > >
: > >-----Original Message-----
: > >From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: > >
: > >I'd watch the new subscribers carefully after a certain date but would
: > >not stop people from voting.
: > >
: > >I'm not sure. I didn't hear much along these lines.
: > >
: > >
: > >
: >
:
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