On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote: > 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
So.... does this mean no 'haskell YEEAAAAHH!'? -- gwern _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
