Few thoughts about voting system. First of all, I think the first stage should be web-and-email based. First a html form with list of logos in _random_ order (this should make it more fair to all the artists -- after dozen of logos one is paying less attention to detail; this way all works would get statistically equal attention ;)). Probably it would be a good idea to hide the artists' names -- so voting for someone's creation would be a little bit harder.
At the end of the form (or beginning), there would be a place for e-mail and full name. BTW, Calls For Votes for new groups in pl.* Usenet hierarchy require that user enters real name (first and last name), to prevent anonymous voting. And it proved quite successful. Of course from time to time some people forge votes, but usually they are easuer to spot (and it feels "more wrong" to vote using your neighbour's name than using "johny17" as a nickname :-)). OK, so the user fills the web form. Then an e-mail should be sent to her, and she should reply quoting the message, to confirm that she indeed voted that way. In the e-mail there should be something like this: > We have received your vote on http://www.fvwm.org/contest/ page, > you should confirm that indeed it was you who took votes. > Please reply to this mail quoting _one_ of these lines: > > *** I VOTED for 4 logos in Fvwm contest. ID=DFSDF4534 > *** I DIDN't VOTE for 4 logos in Fvwm contest. ID=DFDF4534 > THe ID could be a MD4 sum from e-mail and votes used. This would make it easier to identify similar votes and it would make forging votes a bit more difficult (one would have to click-through random logos every time he wants to place a vote; it would be impossible to send 10 or 100 "vote reply" e-mails from different addresses). And as for the vote system itself. I'm for two stage voting. If there is only 1 logo with foo as a theme, and 20 logos with shmoo, people who like foo would probably win. And shmoo voters would divide between 20 logos (yes, I know, one can vote for more than one logo, but the votes would divide nonetheless). Them, at the second stage we'd have one foo logo and one or two shmoo logos to choose from. Regards, Dawid -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
