[ale] ALE reply-to changes needed?? -- VOTE @ www.cade.org/ale_reply.php

Joe jknapka at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 12 16:07:11 EDT 2003


"ChangingLINKS.com" <x3 at ChangingLINKS.com> writes:

> I move that we use the Cade voting system, and close the polls.
> Currently the vote is 320 (reply to list) vs. 8 (reply to poster).

That's truly bizarre, since it seems to me that the list traffic
has weighed pretty heavy on the "reply to poster" side, and
there are only about fifteen people who regularly post to the
list. Surely the lurking masses don't give two horseapples about
this issue; so where the heck did *328* votes come from???

Really curious,

-- Joe Knapka

> Moreover, I heard that one (or more) of the votes for "reply to poster" was 
> voted only because the radio button was too close to the submit button!
> Thus, there is a "hanging chad" in our ale voting system. Nonetheless, I think 
> that this alledged hanging chad offsets the fact that the default vote is 
> "reply to list."
> 
> Aaron can I get a second?
> 
> 
> Drew
> 
> On Sat April 12 2003 12:42, Joe wrote:
> > Cade Thacker <linux at cade.org> writes:
> > > So as not to tie up the list and make it easy to track I created a quick
> > > and dirty php vote
> > > counter.
> > >
> > > http://www.cade.org/ale_reply.php
> > > http://www.cade.org/ale_results.php
> > >
> > > Hope this helps....
> > >
> > > It would be easy to rig the voting so be honest!
> >
> > So if I honestly feel that my own opinion is worth ten times anyone
> > else's (and who doesn't?), I can vote ten times, right? :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -- Joe Knapka
> > (who's actually abstaining from this vote)
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> 
> -- 
> Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
> Drew Brown
> http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
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