On 10/06/2011 5:55 PM, Sarah wrote: > [...] that the software is actively inviting all accounts that meet > those requirements, it means we're alerting all the socks that they're > able to vote. They might otherwise not even have remembered some of > the accounts the software is reminding them of. > > This is just not a good idea.
You are begging a number of questions: - that the proportion of socks accounts is significant to begin with - that many of those sock accounts will vote because of the reminder that otherwise would not have - that the number of resulting fraudulent votes will be more significant than the number of *valid* votes the email will have generated; and - that even a statistically significant number of sock votes would overweight the benefits of the increased voter turnout. I don't believe any of those presumptions are valid. -- Coren / Marc _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
