| [phoenix-epic-dev] analysis of epic voting |
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Based on some of the conversations about the EPIC ranking, I
asked Nathan to dump all of the votes into an Excel spreadsheet, so I could do
some analysis. The entire history contains over 22K votes, so to
make things simple in Excel I just used the last 12 months worth of data, which
include 9843 votes. Here is a summary of my analysis: - 80% of the votes come from the outside; 20% come from
anonymous users; there were only 33 registered uses that votes and it
represented just 40 votes. - 69% of the votes were of value 10; 11% were of value 9; 7%
were 8; 5% were 1 - 76% of the votes were cast against just 10 plug-ins; in
total 250 plug-ins received at least one vote; I believe EPIC now has over 630
plug-ins - approx. 94% of IP address just voted for one plug-in; only
15 IP addresses voted for 5 or more plug-ins. One IP address voted for 17
plug-ins. This was actually the IP address reported by Mik. - there were only about 500 votes that had comments included. If you have any questions or queries that you would like me to run let
me know. The speadsheet I am using is over
21MB. I can try to put it on the wiki but I don’t think I our
mail server will allow be to e-mail it to people. In conclusion, I don’t think we have a huge voting
fraud issue. I would like to see us set up a process for handling
complaints, so we can be responsive to individual issues. In the long term, I think it benefits the entire community
to have votes cast for a wider selection of plug-ins, more comments attached to
votes and more people voting for more than 1 plug-in. I hope these
are some things we can think about over the long term. Comments/Thoughts? Ian |