On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Don Stewart
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