in reply to Vote bot

I have to agree with merlyn, spending votes just to spend them is not a good use of votes. If anything, a better way to handle unused votes is to allow them to accummulate, but with only (somewhere between 0.33 and 0.5) of them carrying over; eg, if you have 10 votes left over from the previous day, you'd get up to 5 extra votes. Note that at 0.5 carryover, the maximum votes one could get after an indefinite lenght of time would be 2*(number of votes for one day), so this really doesn't out balance anything.

But the fact that this can be done suggests that vroom should modify the code to prevent rapid vote issuing; you need to be able issue votes for nodes within the same thread at the same time, but you shouldn't be able to do votes across threads within a minute or 2 (but then we start running into the /. "whoa cowboy" troll-fest)...

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Re: Re: Vote bot
by Beatnik (Parson) on Apr 24, 2001 at 23:18 UTC
    Normally when I vote on nodes, I pick a new node and check out the responses (and vote on them too). Technically it is possible to vote on 25 nodes with one press on the Vote! button so it would be rather hard to avoid 'rapid voting'.
    Since it's brief existence, this node has caused some discussion. I therefor decided to have it deleted...

    Greetz
    Beatnik
    ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.
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      Thanks, Beatnik, for not leaving this clever program available for abuse. The last thing PM needs is random noise introduced by bots. About as useful as the bot making random sarcastic remarks to randomly selected nodes. Fun, but not necessarily funny. It all depends on where the "educational" purpose of the program ceases to exist, and malicious amusement becomes the primary objective.

      Nice show, though. Points for style!
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        One of my mottos is use, don't abuse... I think everything can be abused... What stops any monk here to write something similar and abuse it?
        Anyway enough of this, clearn PM code on the way.

        Sideno(t|d)e I actually created Bone::Easy on IRC... fun, but not funny??? :)


        Greetz
        Beatnik
        ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.
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