[OSM-talk] Vote cheating?

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Fri Mar 16 11:42:20 UTC 2018


You probably have to check the logfiles. Not sure if you can do this 
from within the wiki.

Maarten

On 2018-03-16 12:38, john whelan wrote:
> But how would you check this?
> 
> Thanks John
> 
> On 16 March 2018 at 07:31, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
>> That is a different matter. This is about the possibility that on
>> person makes multiple wiki accunts and use those to vote (thereby
>> cheating the vote).
>> 
>> I think it would be a good thing to check this.
>> 
>> Maarten
>> 
>> On 2018-03-16 12:18, James wrote:
>> You could also argue the opposite way: Not everyone in OSM edits
>> the
>> wiki, thus probably doesnt have an account, thus to participate,
>> they
>> need to create an account to vote
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 7:16 AM Selfish Seahorse,
>> <selfishseahorse at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone
>> 
>> I've remarked that there are wiki accounts that were only used to
>> participate in one proposed feature vote (or in multiple votes by
>> the
>> same user). How can we be sure that these are different users and
>> not
>> multiple wiki accounts of the same user for cheating in a vote?
>> 
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