Re: [phoenix-epic-dev] analysis of epic voting

[Mike Taylor <mike_taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [phoenix-epic-dev] analysis of epic voting

Thanks, Ian! This is VERY useful in determining how we should proceed with the ranking discussion. More later.

MikeT

> 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
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