[OSM-talk] Vote cheating?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2018-03-16 13:05 GMT+01:00 john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>:

> > 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.
>


while you can not prove it, you can see abnormalities which are strong
indices. Usually, in a wiki voting there is the same bunch of people (more
or less, say from the same "pool", but with varying composition depending
on the topic), almost all editors with lots of other contributions. If now
suddenly a lot of never heard of people create accounts for the wiki and
their first (and often only) action is voting for a disputed proposal, then
something smells. Even if those were real people, not involved in OSM in
any way, but motivated by someone to register and vote in a certain way, it
wouldn't change anything IMHO, still invalid votes (not to prove formally,
maybe, but could be decided by community consensus).

Cheers,
Martin
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