I am one of the moderators on ovmworld.org. You would not believe all the malicious spam that came through the forum until we turned on all the safeguards available. And take a look at vmmcentral.org today. These are people with either too much time on their hands, or people who are being paid to sabotage the web at large.

Even what seems to be legitimate voting, can be skewed by organizations who are crafty at promoting people to the voting web site.

A better way to poll is to take a random sample of a neutral population (like DVCon attendees) or to ask people to register for poll by asking a few simple screening questions first, before they know what they are voting on. They won’t know which screening questions will qualify/disqualify them.

Dave

All I can say is, “Welcome to the Standards Game”.

Best regards,
Karen