Re: Re: Anonymous voting on wiki

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2016, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > > Hi Stas, > > > > Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > > > Since in CoC discussion it was mentioned we may need anonymous > > > voting, I've created a patch that allows anonymous polls to be > > > created: > > > > > > https://github.com/php/web-wiki/pull/7 > > > > > > The results still recorded per user, but everybody can see just > > > their own vote (for logged in users) and total summary. People with > > > shell access to the server will be able to see the votes, > > > unfortunately I don't see how to avoid that without serious rewrite. > > > Also, once the poll is created as anonymous it can't be turned into > > > non-anonymous without resetting the results or manual admin action. > > > > > > Please review/comment. Is it's good, I propose to deploy it on > > > wiki.php.net. > > > > > > > This seems useful. I do wonder whether we should use by default for > > RFCs. It's interesting to see how different people vote, and knowing > > who voted which way means you can ask them what their objections were. > > I have gotten these question in the past, and I think it's important to > be able to be asked why you made a specific choice. > > > Though, anonymous voting would mean no potential for harassing people > > for the way they voted (though they're not necessarily free of > > harassment for their opinion - many people make theirs public anyway). > > I do think that for normal RFCs, voting should not be anonymous. > > However, if we go that way, I find it important that once voting is > closed, the votes are always shown (for normal RFCs) - even if chose to > make normal RFC voting anonymous. > > > One concern I have with the patch is that it doesn't appear (by my > > reading of the code) to show who voted. I think it's important to know > > who participated in the vote, even if we don't know which way they > > voted. > > I disagree, I think it is important to know who voted for what in the > end. Some accountability is good. > agree, otherwise it will be very hard/impossible to notice if/when somebody borks/manipulates the votes. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu