Creating bogus accounts and voting up pet projects - please don't
Really, this is lame - I don't want to say too much about this, except that we don't want to use the IP address banhammer, but we have had to in a couple of cases. This older video received 30 votes in the span of an hour from the same IP address.
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Would limiting to 1 vote per ip be that bad? Lots of NAT on the internet these days but it'd be a quick fix. Or maybe allow negative voting, with weighting based on your star rating?
Well we have already ran into some situations where roommates are all behind one router. I actually have that situation at my house. Also public wifi hot spots could become a bigger concern in the future as the site continues to grow. We are almost at 1,000 members in side of 7 weeks with no signs of this abating any time in the near future.
We have thought about maybe limiting it to 3 or 4 ip's per video. For the time being it's enough that we check this site religiously, and have a sharp eye and some scripts for identifying such abuses.
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