On Tuesday 18 March 2008 03:50:34 am Martin Schlander wrote:
Mandag den 17. Marts 2008 23:06:26 skrev Pascal Bleser:
- non-members who have a verified identity by the proxy of a member
Say A is a member, but X, Y and Z aren't. But A knows that X, Y and Z are - real individuals, not fake identities used to fraud the election - part of the openSUSE community, as contributors or users
How about restricting it so that each member can only vouch for one non-member.
We can also restrict this elections to members, but take care to have more contributors included as members, now, before elections, and later, as permanent policy. Members should have right to propose and be active in recruiting new members. Online identities are similar to real, you can't have 10 of them and be significant contributor with all of them, so allowing to vote guys that are often present and contribute can be pretty much enough to ensure fair voting. If someone has 2 identities that nobody knows that belong to the same person and significant contributions under both, is it really evil that such person can cast 2 votes. On the other side I doubt that someone with good credit in community will attempt to cast 2 votes and ruin his reputation if ever that become known. One of things that can help is trust rating system currently discussed only for Build Service, but it should be extended to community. User directory exist, add some voting system to each user name and there is lesser problems when you need someone dependable. User can actively advertise his entry in user directory, or hide it, but it would be one central place where one can give opinion. Now it is only our memory that collects data on someone's activity, special skills, contributions. -- Regards, Rajko. See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org