[Catalog-sig] Poll Problem
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Nov 14 10:47:35 CET 2009
Chris Withers wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> I just started a poll on the PyPI rating system, at
>>
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi
>>
>> I'll announce it more widely tomorrow.
>
> Just so you're aware, there's some opportunity for ballot stuffing given
> that each OpenID provider a user has access allows them one vote, as
> well as the vote they have if they actually create a username/password
> on PyPI. So, each person can, in theory, vote up to 4 times.
Thanks, I was aware of that (and have additional measures in place to
detect it, which can in turn be subverted if you try enough). Please
don't advertise that too widely.
Regards,
Martin
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