So this means that any kind of online polling is pretty much dead? It's relatively trivial to get this to vote for you, detecting and typing in Captchas, making accounts etc.
Online polling was broken by 4chan like 15 years ago (that’s how we got Schooly Mc Schoolface and other hilarious things).
Much more sophisticated activity than anonymous polling, like “political temperature” on social media, has also been broken for probably a decade, if not more.
If you’re building a public facing product today, you most certainly have to account for incentives of malicious (or just rational self-interested) actors. A bit of rudimentary game theory and adversarial thinking goes a long way.
Much more sophisticated activity than anonymous polling, like “political temperature” on social media, has also been broken for probably a decade, if not more.
If you’re building a public facing product today, you most certainly have to account for incentives of malicious (or just rational self-interested) actors. A bit of rudimentary game theory and adversarial thinking goes a long way.