[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: poll idea (and the results will be useful for packagers)

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:38:29AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 December 2005 at 17:27, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:54:11AM +0100, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:29:35 -0500
> > > Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:16:51AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > > > > > Obviously the poll would need to be web-based for greater accessibility.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I hope that's a joke. Maybe sarcasm/troll, in which case I'd feel stupid
> > > > > > for replying seriously to the first part which seemed serious.
> > > > > 
> > > > > No, that was quite serious, too. Why do you think it's a joke?
> > > > 
> > > > Web based has no accountability and it's less accessible.
> > > 
> > > Sorry but my mind reader broke again so it would be nice if you finished
> > > that sentence. Less accessible than what ?
> > 
> > Email, I suppose.
> 
> E-mail would work, I suppose.
> 
> > > Sure web stuff have their limitations we all know that. But for the
> > > case at hand (ie. pooling _users_ at large) that seems ok to me.
> > 
> > Until lamers flood the poll with votes from multiple addresses.. A web
> > poll is utterly useless for any poll intended to aid in
> > decision-making.
> 
> Hm. One vote per IP? I know this excludes votes from multiple people behind
> a NATing firewall.

The point isn't who it excludes, but rather who it includes, i.e. all
the kiddies with hundreds of ip addresses.

Rich