Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-26475253-20150702225823/@comment-26475800-20150803015658

It wouldn't matter how it was configed, it could be so easily corrupted that any story would be able to get bumped to higher ranking even if it is complete bunk. The only way to do this and make it fair would be to track the IP for each person who comes to the site so they can only rank it once. But the problem with that would be for public places, say you go to Starbucks and try to rank a story. If someone had already ranked that pasta it wouldn't work for you. So you would also have to track MAC addresses which would be much more work than it would be worth.

A person saying that they ranked a story on a 1-10 scale is good because it is that person's opinion, which cannot be faked unless their account had been hacked. And, although I'm sure there are people who would be willing to do this, it would keep a lot of people from doing so just for the amount of work that would be involved.

The system in play now works, there is no need to change it.