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[Duncan McGreggor <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Duncan McGreggor wrote:
>> I the future, I'd like to suggest Condorcet voting for future polls.
>> It's a more comprehensive voting mechanism than the polling done on
>> Launchpad. It's also easy to use (both in creating polls and in voting
>> on favorites).
>
> It's also extremely easy to game if you don't provide a set of voters
> email addresses.
>
> We want all the community involved in picking the name (so all the
> ~openstack group in Launchpad) but we don't have all email addresses,
> and we don't want some group to stuff the ballot and let "Greenville"
> win. The only way to game the Launchpad poll system is to create a
> thousand Launchpad IDs : it sounds like a high-enough barrier of entry
> to fraud. CIVS poll stuffing is just a click away.
>
> Basically Launchpad polls are in the sweet spot between convenience,
> accuracy and fraud-resistance.

Fair point ;-)

> You just don't know what the Bear Revolt crew was ready to do to let
> Grizzly win :)

*laughs*

Not the BEAR REVOLT!!!

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