[mb-users] Fake editors! Again!

[Vincent Poulain]

Maybe, yes.

In this case, the vote limitation suggested by Giole  (at least one > 2
months, or not all in the same range) might a good solution.
Does this often occur, as far as we know? (question behind: does it worth
doing something to prevent that?)

Vincent

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kritzberg" <david.kritzberg at colorado.edu>
To: "General discussions about MusicBrainz"
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Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [mb-users] Fake editors! Again!


> * Gioele <gioele at svario.it> [2008-05-05 22:56:39 +0200]:
>
> > Have a look at these editors and their votes
> >
> > foo4242: http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=397035
> > foo4243: http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=397037
> > foo4243: http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=397039
> >
> > and this edit:
> >
> > http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8726649
> >
> > There are also similar edits from the same editors.
> >
> > We saw something like that few days ago: fake editors create to push
> > releases and other edits trough the queue.
> >
> > Could we implement some countermeasures? I'd suggest to implement
something
> > along the lines of:
> >
> > * No more than one account per IP per day
> > * If there are votes, at lease one must came from an editor with
2-months
> > old account
> > * Drop votes of editors whose ID is within a certain range (20? 100?)
>
> Allowing no more than one account per ip per day would not affect most
> suburban americans, but people using wireless in coffee shops and
> other public spaces would be severely limited, right?
>
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