Timeline for answer to We will launch the 1-rep voting experiment on Stack Overflow for 4–6 weeks, along with account creation prompts by Thom A
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| Apr 3, 2024 at 22:36 | comment | added | starball Mod | @ThomA there are people who cast way more than 40 votes per day (though those are mostly downvotes). anyhow, my point wasn't to focus on fraud. it was to focus on how to enable "graduating" anon votes when people earn vote privs. though I have written loosely related to that topic in relation to mitigating fraud. | |
| Apr 3, 2024 at 22:05 | comment | added | Thom A Mod | Honestly, if someone is hitting the 40 upvote cap these days, @starball , I'd be suspicious of fraud. Though, presumably, the date and time of the votes are recorded, so the first 40 votes of each day would be used if that occured (but again, I'd suggest if a user did reach that level often, then fraud is likely). | |
| Apr 3, 2024 at 21:55 | comment | added | starball Mod | note: I don't think daily vote limits (40*) are applied to anon votes. so there would need to be some talk about how to handle overflows (ignore them? try to distribute them over later days? make user go through their anon votes and recast as "real" votes when they earn vote privs?). still, I agree that somehow showing a user their anonymous votes as if they were real would mitigate feelings like "my votes don't matter. I should stop voting", and I agree that somehow "graduating" anon votes when vote privs are earned is a good idea. | |
| Apr 3, 2024 at 16:11 | history | edited | Thom AMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2024 at 15:53 | comment | added | user400654 | Not only is it stored, they know which "fake" votes came from registered users vs unregistered as well as how many were up/down, what posts they were on, etc. Total, for as long as the site has existed, only 864.3k came from registered users and it's 87.88% upvotes, which is lower than the 95% we get from users with enough rep to vote (presumably due to the different rep thresholds.) I would expect voting activity from this group to increase, if suddenly they knew their votes actually did something. | |
| Apr 3, 2024 at 15:50 | history | edited | Thom AMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2024 at 15:43 | history | answered | Thom AMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |