Us old-timers readily ignore what you humorously call âThe Southpark Poet Society.â Newcomers cannot ignore them without first doing the research. When newcomers see the poop-laden Best List, they assume that Poemranker is a poop site. I think this is why most of the newcomers, over the last weeks, are so oriented.
Kaolin has inserted safeguards against selfish votes. He has disallowed more than one vote from any IP or from any user-name. Edna and others have raised their status by voting through multiple IPâs. They probably log in with dialup, which gives a new IP every time they log in, and almost always an IP unassociated with any user-name. Thus they vote themselves onto the Best List.
I oppose anonymous voting, and think that disallowing it is the only way to reduce the problem. Many people have multiple user-names, and they cannot be as easily prevented from self-voting. Kaolin has threatened to eliminate user-names whose emails bounce, or whose emails are the same as for another user-name. I think this is also a good idea.
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