[mb-users] Fwd: Sock puppets

[Robert Kaye]

On Jun 25, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Lauri Watts wrote:

> Resending with correct address, my apologies if y'all get this twice.
>
> Do we have any procedure to put in place watches on people suspected
> of sock puppet voting?
>
> I came across one just now where a couple of hundred edits were pushed
> through with 3 yes votes from the same users, all 3 created the same
> day.  I'm just not sure what to do with it at this point, other than
> subscribe and keep an eye on it.

Its best to post that type of information here or get people's  
attention in the IRC channel.

Lukas: I know you fixed this for the next server release where people  
need to have a certain number of accepted edits before they can vote.  
How invasive was this change? Do you think we can come up with a patch  
that we can apply to the server in a nano-release?

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