Poll: Primary D version

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "div0" <div0 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message 
> news:ht3tfa$2smm$1 at digitalmars.com...
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>> I'm surprised so many people who don't use D bother to read this news
>> group and voted on the poll. Surely they must have better things to do.
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> I have a few guesses for that phonomenon:
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> - Troll and/or trolls. I turned on "enable IP logging", but I didn't turn 
> on "prevent multiple votes from same IP", since shared IPs are fairly 
> common. Maybe GirlProgrammer's been messing with it. Or maybe the Reddit 
> D-Downvoters found it. Maybe I made a mistake by not preventing multiple 
> votes from same IP. Maybe if it turn that on it'll apply 
> retro-actively...or maybe not? I dunno, I really should get around to 
> making my own poll software.
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I've looked into this a little. I was able to download a chart of the IPs, 
and the number of votes per IP. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any 
way to tell anything about the actual votes from a particular IP, which I 
suppose is good for privacy, but it prevents me from looking at an IP with 
multiple votes and determining if all of the votes were suspiciously 
strongly favoring the one option.

There are 105 IPs. The vast majority of the IPs only had one vote. There 
were five IPs that had two votes each, and one IP that had three votes. I'm 
willing to assume those are just multiple people from the same ISP, and even 
if not they're not particularly significant compared to the rest. But then 
there was one IP with 72 votes. So, yea, that does seem suspicious. In case 
anyone thinks they might have more insight, the IP in question is 
115.131.192.250, and appears to be from Austrailia.