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Poll requires Facebook

0/10 would not vote again

Or twitter.

Honestly, It's easier than making people sign up for an account (safer too, since they don't leave an unhashed password in their database)

Or twitter:

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This application will be able to:

Read Tweets from your timeline.

See who you follow, and follow new people.

Update your profile.

Post Tweets for you.

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SRSLY?

Eh, vote then revoke access to the app.

How do you know it does not immediately utilise those rights?

Please just say use

To me "utilise" has a slightly different meaning that "use". I am not a native speaker though. Is it just a fancy way of saying "use"? I thought it implied "using" an option/feature/opportunity to do something. So one "utilises" that to do something.

Making it very complicated to cast a simple vote.

Ended up not voting because they are asking for way too many Twitter OAuth privileges (including following and posting with my account, plus updating my profile).

Vote then revoke access

Or don't vote. I don't give random apps total access to my Twitter account, even for a short time.

Exactly.

Deserving of an Internet meme abbrev.: rf;ib (requires facebook, I bounced)

Probably because of /b/'s vote manipulation in previous years. Another reason we "can't have nice things" on the internet -- systems that rely on implicit codes of civility still seem to break down when people can remain anonymous.

/b/'s vote manipulation lead to the selection of moot as most influential person, which is clearly correct, as moot's users influenced the voting process to ensure it.

except the award isn't "who is the most influential person on the internet", it's supposed to be "the most influential person of the year on the planet".

It's like when you cite raw polling results from the Daily Kos, and say its representative of American opinion. There's a lot of bias that needs to be taken into account.

Nevertheless is kind of weird that in orther to show that I'm not a bot I have to allow some app to read and post on my tweeter timeline... I guess this vote is a joke. Snowden might win but the lesson is that people haven't learned anything. :)

I have no problem voting non-anonymously, but I'm not happy that I would have to share my friends list. That's too much.

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