Re: Proposal: Bodhi Anonymous Karma

[Tom Lane <tgl redhat com>]

Josh Boyer <jwboyer gmail com> writes:
> I'd like to get some review on this proposal so that it can be presented
> at this Thursday's FESCo meeting.  It can be found on the wiki at:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshBoyer/BodhiAnonymousKarmaProposal

If KevinKofler's comment on that page is accurate:

: As far as I can tell, anonymous votes alone can't get the karma to +/-3
: in the current implementation, because "anonymous" is handled as one
: user, so anonymous votes can only get it to +1 or -1.

then if anything I'd say anon votes are being *undercounted*.

Are there real examples of someone flooding a package with duplicate
anon votes?  I see that a potential for gaming the system exists, but
I'm not convinced that we should reduce the usefulness of the system
for normal cases to prevent that.  A manual case-by-case override might
serve better.

Tracking of where anon votes came from would be a good idea in any case.

			regards, tom lane