Dropbox on FreeBSD

Janky Jay, III jankyj at unfs.us
Tue Mar 5 18:31:54 UTC 2013


On 03/05/2013 11:18 AM, Jerry wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:37:17 -0700
> Janky Jay, III articulated:
>
>> 	Same! I've been voting this up for quite some time. All my
>> votes are dedicated to this. Hopefully it will be implemented soon.
>> Just keep the votes coming and I'm sure they'll take it seriously at
>> some point.
>
> Interestingly enough, I worked on a project a while ago that had a
> somewhat similar voting setup. However, since it was determined in
> advance that some people would inevitable attempt to inflate the
> actual voting total by voting numerous times, they put safeguards in
> place. One was to eliminate multiple votes from the same IP I believe.
>

	Hrm. That sounds silly. The Dropbox voting actually encourages it's 
users to use all their votes however they see fit. If you want to use 
them all towards one item, go for it. You're only allowed a certain 
number of votes, though. So, that's the only way they limit it.

Regards,
Janky Jay, III




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