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::[[Tim Starling]] responds "yes, I wanted to make it so that it was hard for a developer to rig since a developer was one of the candidates and he came very close to winning, too" | ::[[Tim Starling]] responds "yes, I wanted to make it so that it was hard for a developer to rig since a developer was one of the candidates and he came very close to winning, too" | ||
This is probably a reference to [[Erik Moeller]] who, along with Starling, does most of the [[developer vigilantiism]] and distributing [[vandalbot]] code to those willing to do [[denial of service attack]] against other [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s. By making it "very hard for a developer to rig" it becomes possible only for these two individuals, Moeller and Starling, to rig the votes. ''See [[Disinfopedia]] entries on [ | This is probably a reference to [[Erik Moeller]] who, along with Starling, does most of the [[developer vigilantiism]] and distributing [[vandalbot]] code to those willing to do [[denial of service attack]] against other [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s. By making it "very hard for a developer to rig" it becomes possible only for these two individuals, Moeller and Starling, to rig the votes. ''See [[Disinfopedia]] entries on [http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Diebold Diebold Election Systems Corporation] for more on the various issues with vote-rigging and why electronic voting is usually bad.'' | ||
According to [[Tim Starling]], "it's also made so that's it's fairly difficult for a developer to work out who is voting for whom; they'd have to constantly run a monitoring program on the server, which is detectable; instead of just get in, grab the results and cover their tracks". Use of terms like ''fairly'' difficult and ''detectable'' and ''cover their tracks'' implies of course that Starling himself can actually do these things, and ensure they are covered up. In the future this might be of benefit to his friend and ally [[Erik Moeller]] who is a strong opponent of [[English Wikipedia User Anthere]], who won the so-called "election" this time - probably just to make everything look honest? | According to [[Tim Starling]], "it's also made so that's it's fairly difficult for a developer to work out who is voting for whom; they'd have to constantly run a monitoring program on the server, which is detectable; instead of just get in, grab the results and cover their tracks". Use of terms like ''fairly'' difficult and ''detectable'' and ''cover their tracks'' implies of course that Starling himself can actually do these things, and ensure they are covered up. In the future this might be of benefit to his friend and ally [[Erik Moeller]] who is a strong opponent of [[English Wikipedia User Anthere]], who won the so-called "election" this time - probably just to make everything look honest? | ||