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contests and voting
11-15-2007, 02:14 AM
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| contests and voting Say you hold regular contests, but you don't want users to recommend a much of friends to vote for them. What precautions do you take, or would you take?  | ||||
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11-15-2007, 02:34 AM
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| If I understand you right, maybe you could put a limit on who can vote, such as being registered for x days or having x amount of posts.
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11-15-2007, 05:02 AM
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| Most of my contests are either run by a volunteer organizer who then assembles a panel of judges (typically three) OR they are based on numbers only which are not subjective OR they are voted on only by staff. We have yet to run anything that involves a "winner" with open voting. We do have open voting in the Book of The Month Club - all members of the usergroup are free to suggest books and to vote on the one we read.
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11-15-2007, 11:37 PM
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The users are voting on who should receive a cash prize, so there's potential for cheating. I'm trying to safeguard it but also keep the users involved in the voting process. | |||||
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11-16-2007, 04:08 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA | We combat this here at AF with FoTM by doing as Toucan suggested. Only staff (panel of judges) vote on a winner - members do not. If you let members vote, it just becomes a popularity contest, and the best person doesn't necessarily win.
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11-22-2007, 02:02 AM
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11-24-2007, 12:50 AM
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Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 213 Location: UK | Not much you can do to prevent existing members voting for their friends rather than the most deserved entrant. Other things you can do coding wise to help at least slow down cheats is limiting number of votes from a single IP, put a registration date requirement on voting equal or less than the date of the contest or minimum post requirement.
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