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Wait...You're going to change it if the anons don't pick who you like? | |||
Reread that message, CK. He's not doing anything of the sort. | |||
Other than the illegal votes, the whole thing still seems silly... | |||
I agree with TA's thoughts, anon votes sometimes are just… Dunno the word in English, but in French I'd say "aberrant". Sorry^^ | |||
We don't randomly use le français quand nous speak. | |||
I second CK. The illegal votes thing should be rectified, but everything else TA said? Sounds like you want it changed because the Buster Sword didn't won it's fight or because Rinoa and Tifa might go to a draw. Besides, I have to go check, but last I looked, Tifa had more anon votes than Rinoa. It's your turf anyway so I guess it'll be changed if you want it changed.} | |||
@Faethin : Sorry, but it's my mother tongue, so there are words I know in French and not in English. I prefer say it in French than not saying it at all ^^ | |||
I was kidding anyway. I myself randomly use español cuando yo speak. | |||
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Mai contribution:
Anons: They are like the users, but more fan-person-ish. So they would give Tifa a stack of votes, and yet, they didn't. Could be some form of cheating going on, easily cloaked by varying IPs.
Thing is, protecting and not allowing anons to vote will cause a bigger spree of users signing up for the DNC and nothing else. It may also attract more users who may also contribute, somehow I don't see that happening. Although I did originally sign up for one of the "best of" competitions; that's not why I became an editor here, two separate reasons (well, the second coming was for two reasons).
In the end, I'm for protecting the page and disallowing IPs from voting. Doesn't matter, I don't actually care about the DNC. ILHI 23:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
8bit BlackMage - Beyond the Sky TALK - Why do chemists call helium, curium, and barium 'the medical elements'? Because, if you can't 'helium' or 'curium', you... um... ._.; - {{{time}}} | |||
Echoing ILHI's statement: Disallowing anons from voting will prompt a percentage of them to become an animal which I believe is much worse: The Red Link Voter. Looking at the current Tifa vs Rinoa fight, both sides are littered with votes, often brief and grammatically deficient, that are signed by users who have not bothered to create a user account because their sole reason for coming here is voting in the DNC. These users have twice the amount of voting power as anons, and if TA's assessment of anon voters is true, I'm willing to bet there isn't much difference between the average anon and the average Red-Link. Banning anons from voting would cue some of them to create an account and then resume using the wiki only for DNC voting, with twice the power as before. And it looks like I've said everything ILHI just said. -_- Anyway, the question is: What fraction of anons would morph into redlinks if we banned anons, and would the resulting influx be worse than the current situation? There's really no way of determining that unless we try it out. Whether we should or not - that's above my paygrade. | |||
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I was going to give an idea like SCM's : limit the edits on DNC to users that have registered X time ago or have X edits. It would mean that all the guys who would want to subscribe only for the DNC would have to wait, and we can hope that during this waiting time they either abandon or make themselves useful. I don't know if it could work here, but it works on certain forums. PS : Thanks TA for enriching my vocabulary ^^ | |||
Terra_Homing - "Will you stagger on, with no star to light your way?" TALK - 12:38, 17 January 2009 (UTC) | |||
I think SCM's idea is good if you plan to do away with anon votes, also if they start editing they might start to enjoy it (I did) and then start contributing to the wiki. However, isn't this idea punishing a majority because of the actions of a minority? Some anons might have cheated but I'm sure a lot of them didn't and some can actually come up with educated answers for their choices on the DNC! Can't we see if it keeps happening then ban them all from voting? Although, actually if this has already happened twice maybe it is time to take steps. | |||
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Crazyswordsman - Final Fantasy VI, because Drake says he wants to link to FF7 every day, which is bad because that game is so far inferior to FF6. TALK - 01:50, 18 January 2009 (UTC) | |||
I say keep it the way it is. If anons are only going to vote on the DNC, let them (but do monitor it for illegal voting). I'd rather see anons voting on the DNC than a slew of users who will join only to do DNC and "favorite X" forum topics exclusively as supposed to writing articles or walkthroughs, contributing fanstuff, and discussing policy and articles. We're not Conservapedia and we don't (and shouldn't) have an arbitrarily enforced mainspace edit quota (that is mostly used to silence dissent), but if a whole slew of accounts join and don't want to jump in and give their opinions on our site or make a name for themselves, that's just not what we want. | |||