Thread: [Council] Maemo Elections (September 2012)
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2012-09-21 , 23:19
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#53
Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
Most people won't bother setting up a fake account (on TMO and Maemo.org) and then making 100 posts to get enough Karma to vote.
Sure, but that would be the most inefficient way of doing it. On the other hand, it would only take one thanked post to push someone above the voting threshold. If anyone wanted to create lots of sock puppet accounts for casting fake votes, the karma requirement wouldn't be an obstacle.

It also sets up a balanced field for those that don't chatter much on TMO, but do help the community in other way, like wiki edits, development, blogging, bug tracking, testing, etc.
Well... does for instance http://maemo.org/profile/view/qgil/ look balanced to you?

Consider that this is the #1 bug commenter, #2 mailing list poster, #2 wiki editor, #4 bug reporter, #5 commenter and so on, while the account's karma shows someone who primarily blogs a lot and gets thanked in the forum a bit.
 

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