[OSM-talk] Vote cheating?

[James]

IPs can also be spoofed via proxys.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 8:09 AM john whelan, <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > You probably have to check the logfiles. Not sure if you can do this
> from within the wiki.
>
> Maarten
>
> I'm unable to think of a way to verify this.  The IP address might help
> but many people sometimes share the same IP address.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 16 March 2018 at 07:42, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> 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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