El 27/05/16 17:29, Huji Lee escribió:
Okay let me explain: we want to create a tie-breaker mechanism for ties
in elections. My idea is that if we have two people who tie, we will
have our local election representative make a null edit in a designated
page.
Terminology nitpick, what you need is a dummy edit, not a null edit
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Dummy_edit#Null_edit
Then we will use the right-most digit of the timestamp as a
psuedorandom number, and use it to break the tie (if it is odd, the
first person wins, if even the second person wins). The problem is you
can plan your edit such that it'll happen on an even or odd second. It
is hard, but possible.
Rev ID is a good idea. Are there any other such pseudorandom numbers you
can think of?
The revision id could be gamed as well by the local election representative.
You could use something like the stock value at closing that day of a
given exchange.
On 27/05/16 17:56, Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) wrote:
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> http://cgi.cs.duke.edu/~des/vct/vct.cgi
> <http://cgi.cs.duke.edu/%7Edes/vct/vct.cgi>
>
> There are probably a few other options online as well.
Interesting. random.org offers the same service, but it's a paid one
https://www.random.org/draws/
They wouldn't preclude the rogue organiser to request several coins
until his desired result is chosen, though,
Additionally, there's the option to implement something like this
ourselves (this is a trivial service).
Regards
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