Thread: Community input for new t.m.o. policy
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2010-06-22 , 12:27
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#137
Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
In addition to making that announcement, Valve could create a new account in order to drive eyeballs to his commercial site every time he sees a thread or post that asks a question or requires an answer. Rather than point to a maemo.org WiKi or another talk.maemo org post that answers the question, he posts under this "personal identity" with the dubious claim that:
"I'm just a regular guy who is supporting a fellow member and found the Steam usually has the answers you are looking for in their new N900 dealio", and then provides a link followed by his signature which reads:
"OMFG STEAM ROXORZ TEH BIG111!" in big red blinking letters.

One way to address both this and the multiple-vote rule could be to "link" accounts. That is, upon registration (and later in the profile) one enters username and password of one's main account to tell the system "Look, I'm the same person".

This link would NOT be visible to regular users, but both the system (when it comes to voting) and the moderators (in order to check whether those multiple accounts are abused) can see it. For moderators, underneath a linked account all other accounts sharing this link could be shown - so when someone posts twice in a thread, it would be quite obvious.

And (staying with the Valve example), it would be rather obvious when someone writes STEAM FOREVVA! and their Username displays "AverageJoe, linked to: Valve"...

Of course there still would have to be a system to find people who have multiple accounts that are not linked (which would be breaking a rule then - though here I would also rather go with the friendly reminder first, for those who already own multiple accounts and didn't know about the new rules). But without a linked accounts system this would still remain.

Never modded vBulletin, but since it's a big name in forum software I guess it has a decent plugin system, so it should be fairly easy to implement a system like that.