On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 01:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I'd like to get some review on this proposal so that it can be presented > > at this Thursday's FESCo meeting. It can be found on the wiki at: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshBoyer/BodhiAnonymousKarmaProposal > > If KevinKofler's comment on that page is accurate: > > : As far as I can tell, anonymous votes alone can't get the karma to +/-3 > : in the current implementation, because "anonymous" is handled as one > : user, so anonymous votes can only get it to +1 or -1. > > then if anything I'd say anon votes are being *undercounted*. I'm not entirely sure of this. I'll ask Luke. My last conversation with him lead me to believe that Anonymous wasn't tracked as a single user, but I could be mistaken. If so, then I'll likely drop this proposal all together. > Are there real examples of someone flooding a package with duplicate > anon votes? I see that a potential for gaming the system exists, but > I'm not convinced that we should reduce the usefulness of the system > for normal cases to prevent that. A manual case-by-case override might > serve better. I have yet another proposal that puts more control of the automation rules into the maintainer's hands anyway. That one is arguably the most important. > Tracking of where anon votes came from would be a good idea in any case. That completely defeats the definition of "Anonymous". josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
