R: [jdev] XMPP Certification Opinion Poll

[Hal Rottenberg]

On 5/13/05, Sander Devrieze <s.devrieze at pandora.be> wrote:
> > Users will vote/rank the favorite client...probably is a fair method.
> 
> The disadvantages of this method are that:
> 1) People can cheat and so influence the ranking.
> 2) It will make it more difficult for new innovative Jabber clients to become

Challenges, but simply an implementation issue to work out, not a flaw
in the premise of ranking software.  I think we can learn from
Sourceforge, they are about to roll out a new stats engine that takes
a lot of the things you mention into account.


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