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Jason Rhinelander posted <41069808.7040405@××××××××××××××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:59:36 -0700: |
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> [V]otes would serve as a way for people to say "me too" without |
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> actually cluttering up the bug report by typing "me too" into the |
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> comment box. |
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IMO this is perhaps the important point. The guidelines specifically say |
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/not/ to "me too" a bug, but sometimes it's tempting. If there was a way |
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to vote for it instead, that would solve that problem. |
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In addition, I'm not sure if the vote is rigged this way by default, but |
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one could set it up such that it would notify on the first and second |
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vote, then not again until the fifth, then the tenth, etc. In addition, |
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the vote reports, being automated and entirely predictable content, could |
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easily be filtered by devs not wishing to get them at all. That of course |
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assumes that votes would be set to globally notify at all. |
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Gentoo's going to be rather different, but I came from Mandrake, where |
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each regular cooker tester/user got ten votes to spend as they wished each |
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month on bugzilla. That kept the fakes down quite a bit, because one had |
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to actually participate in the process in ordered to get the ten vote |
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privilege. One could still in theory participate under a bunch of names, |
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but that takes time. A user could spend all ten votes on one thing if |
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they wanted, or spread them out to ten things. I don't know if lower |
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level participants got say two votes, or if actual rpm contributors got |
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say 20, or not, but it could have been done. |
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Now some thinking in print.. As I said, Gentoo's different. Perhaps |
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restrict general users to two votes a month. Preventing ballot stuffing |
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might be problematic, as there's no way to limit registered nyms. |
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However, regular reliable reporters and those contributing fixes might get |
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10 or 20 votes to use each month, an interesting recognition mechanism |
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short of dev-hood or the like. If stuffing appears to be getting out of |
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hand, but not /entirely/ so, maybe up that to 50 or a hundred votes for |
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the reliable reporters and patch contributors, and while there'd be some |
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obvious vote inflation, equally obviously, they could effectively shout |
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down all but extreme stuffing. One might also consider giving the legit |
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"super-voters" negative votes, costing the same vote points, but |
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subtracting votes, where abuse might be suspected. A super-voter wouldn't |
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have to answer /why/ they voted something up or down, but abuse could be |
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curbed by revoking super-voter status, yanking vote points. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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