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Wouldn't this be a problem that was better solved without software? I mean if its actual people doing the voting, rather than just bots, shouldn't this be hand
by rwhitman 17y ago
Wouldn't this be a problem that was better solved without software?
I mean if its actual people doing the voting, rather than just bots, shouldn't this be handled in a less software-focused way?
What I'd say is treat it like police detective work, have someone go undercover, act as if it was like any other human 'crime' syndicate...
- axomhacker 17y agoHow would you decide which of the hundreds/thousands of "rings" would you pursue?
- Perceval 17y ago1) There is the problem of identification, which seems to be the object of this exercise. TheSixtyOne wants to have a program that can red flag certain correlated behaviors that they might not otherwise notice or be able to quantify. You can't really go undercover if you can't spot the criminals in the first place. 2) There is the question of labor. I doubt TheSixtyOne has a large enough staff to devote one or more employees to the task of infiltration. Infiltration is not the easiest skill to just pick up. Nor are voting rings actually made up of multiple people. As the test prompt states, it could just be one person with multiple sockpuppets. How do you infiltrate a one-person voting ring?
- dasil003 17y agoHow do you infiltrate a one-person voting ring? This should go on a list of startup koans somewhere.