s.clover: > 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.
Exactly. Let's not wander down to the bikeshed :) > 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. Right, only a subset of previously submitted ones. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
