| [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Possible vote rigging |
I have reason to believe that votes for the following submissions have been falsely inflated: #1 130 Data Tools Platform Project Tutorial (*) #2 187 Building Integrated Help for a Commercial Eclipse Product #4 199 Data Tools for Rich Clients (*) #6 207 Implementing SQL Debugger using Eclipse Debug framework #3 234 Extending Eclipse WTP to Build Commercial Development Product #5 235 STP Project Overview (*) The ones marked with (*) have already been accepted, partly because of the number of votes we thought they received. The ranking in overall community votes is shown on the left. As you can see these are the top 6 vote getters. They all received 37 or more votes, while #7 received 28 votes. Most or all of the votes on these entries are suspicious. As evidence of this, consider the large number of accounts that voted for these exact same 6 submissions. The odds that that so many people would independently vote for the same 6 items are astronomical. Bogus votes make it hard for us to say which submissions were actually wanted by the community. The PC needs to decide what to do about it, from doing nothing, to erasing the votes we suspect are bogus and re-evaluating, to automatically disqualifying all 6 entries. I mean, we all knew there was a little ballot stuffing with people asking their buddies to vote for things, but this is beyond the pale. A strong response might discourage this sort of thing in the future. Here's a list of 30 email addresses that voted for the the exact same 6 submissions listed above: http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=ajay.telang@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=barbara.schott@xxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=col1kid@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=danny.janssens2@xxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=duquetteb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=fishboneml@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=franklopez2000@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=fricke@xxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=garyrstu-web@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=gibbonsp@xxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=haroldwmason@xxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=info@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=jdunrue@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=Kimberlytroupe@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=kwringe@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=laniyuen@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=louise_kirby@xxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=marckaneko@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=mercer116@xxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=naeem_maqsud@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=nikki15161@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=pat_e@xxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=pauld_ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=prince1968@xxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=prwhalen@xxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=sheila.fraser2@xxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=sujayshetty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=susan38xs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=the.kesslers@xxxxxxx And here are 3 more accounts that voted for the 6 listed above plus number 245. (submission number 245 looks ok though): http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=emdelaney@xxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=jwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/votes.cgi?action=show_user&user=ysmalinowski@xxxxxxxxxxx