Agreed, I've now increased the reward to 25 shares and have also made a special award of 10 shares to Squire, whose post came fourth in the original list.cashbacklover wrote:Loz68 had 5 “votes” from regular Imutual users who are most likely all UK residents, Why hasn’t Loz68 had his/her award uplifted to 25 shares?
As macliam suggests, it's not an exact science to filter out non-UK users by IP address. It's particularly common for genuine UK users to be misidentified as non-UK members due to the ISP or corporate network they use. At this stage in imutual's development, one genuine UK user could turn out be a great advocate and bring in hundreds if not thousands of new members with them; if we accidentally prevent such a person from joining by over-zealous IP blocking, that will be to the detriment of all members.
That said, in these instances our automated system did identify these registrations as suspect and removed their forum rights within minutes of joining. However, the thanks had been already been given by then
I'll look at screening these out for next time around. I hadn't looked at this so far because, in 4 years, it has never been an issue - or if it had, nobody ever brought it to my attention I'm grateful for cbl doing so this time
This won't totally solve the issue though; what if we get registrations from UK IP addresses which also look 'artificial' Some of you may recall that, at the outset, I expressed concern about this possibility which is why I wanted shareholdings to be taken into account. But some argued strongly that it should be a simple "one member one vote" so I relented.
We'll never get a perfect system first time; as with all aspects of imutual we just have to respond to issues as they come along and make "tweaks" and continual improvements