Even if sock puppet accounts do not currently influence votes, the more the EA community will use such polls to decide on things the more likely such influence will become.
I think we currently see too little community sensemaking, not too much. And if sockpuppets could be used on polls they could be used everywhere. Why not complain that the whole voting system is wrong?
Let’s be real, many people upvoting here don’t actually think there are trolls, but the polls make you uneasy, right?
perhaps because you feel they are an oversimplification? or because you feel they are unrepresentative?
Even if sock puppet accounts do not currently influence votes, the more the EA community will use such polls to decide on things the more likely such influence will become.
I think we currently see too little community sensemaking, not too much. And if sockpuppets could be used on polls they could be used everywhere. Why not complain that the whole voting system is wrong?
I agree that such concerns are not limited to the polls on this page. (I’ve also wrote a comment related to such concerns here.)