Re: Voting irregularities
| From: | Michael Wallner | Date: | Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:30:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Voting irregularities | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 | Groups: | php.internals |
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> On 15 03 2015, at 16:23, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 15 03 2015, at 15:19, Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right
>>> now. There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. So I
>>> decided to pull some stats.
>>>
>>> The following voters never voted before the dual-mode RFC went up:
>>>
>>> dom - no
>>> eliw - no
>>> kguest - yes
>>> kk - no
>>> nohn - no
>>> oliver - yes
>>> richsage - yes
>>> sammywg - no
>>> spriebsch - no
>>> srain - no
>>> theseer - no
>>> zimt - no
>>>
>>> Some of these names I recognize from list (sammywg and eliw), but many I do not.
>>>
>>> The interesting thing happens when you look at the voting direction.
>>>
>>> Currently, the RFC is slightly losing 70:37 (65.4%).
>>>
>>> If we look at percentages, 4.2% of yes voters have never voted in a
>>> prior RFC. But a whopping 24.3% of no voters have never voted before.
>>>
>>> If we adjust the votes to remove these "never voted" accounts, it
>>> stands at 67:28. Which is 70.5%. Which is basically where the vote was
>>> prior to the competing RFC opening.
>>>
>>> I'm not saying that all of these are bad votes. Nor that they
>>> shouldn't be counted. I think it does raise a significant question
>>> around the voting practices.
>>>
>>> Something that I think we need to discuss as a group.
>>>
>>> So consider that discussion open.
>>
>> Jeez, that is becoming ridiculous. So, if you’re that good in counting, how many did not
>> vote before STHv0.3?
>
> Is there a way to check when someone got a php.net account/karma?
http://people.php.net <http://people.php.net/>