From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 18:03:11 MST
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> wrote:
> Polls like this don't even rise to the level of "factoid"; they
> don't resemble facts in any way. You might call them "opinionoids",
Not even that. A few people will just write scripts that keep
stuffing the vote box. Such online polls are entirely worthless.
(If you deny or rate limit votes based on the submitting IP address,
you will obstruct some regular voters. Besides, some script writers
have whole netblocks at their disposal.)
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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