Re: Kalusa: War of the Words

On 5/24/06, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> One thing that makes the ranking a bit interesting is that there
> is no way to object to part of the sentence.  So, for example, say
,,,,,
> Additionally (and this has happened more often than not when
> I'm voting), say a sentence has been used that has one "error"
> (e.g., the "dun" omission described above), but also uses one of
> two disputed words--say x and y both mean "bird", and the
> author uses "x".  Now say the voter wants to promote the usage
> of "x" over "y".  Because this sentence has a simple error like
> the "dun" omission, one is almost obligated to mark it as bad,
> but then it *looks* as if one is favoring y over x, when exactly
> the opposite is the case.  Any ideas about this?
What I've done several times is to vote against a
sentence, and then enter an alternate, "corrected"
version of it (hopefully other people will think my
new version is more correct than the older one).

Or if I see that people voted against some sentence
I entered earlier, and I'm not sure what part they
objected to, I'll enter a new sentence that differs in
a couple of different ways from the old one and see
if it fares better.

On 5/24/06, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:

> > I've been wrestling with this problem. It's easy
> > enough to limit people to one vote per person when
> > it's just some single thing like a poll question, but
> > when hundreds, and potentially thousands of sentences
> > are involed it becomes more difficult to work out a
> > good way to keep track of which sentences a person has
> > or has not voted upon. I'm still trying to solve it
> > though. Any solution would require that people login
> > to the site to establish their "identity", although
> > the login process could be made anonymous and secure.
You could have a votes table with IP address,
sentence number, and vote value. - then not allow
multiple votes on the same sentence for the same IP.
Of course people with dynamic IP addresses could
still spoof it, but they would have to reconnect their
session for each vote.

It _might_ be good to log the IP address when
a sentence is created too -- I'm not sure.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry

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