Starzack:Starzack wrote:Unless it can be shown that cheating is impossible or that it would have negligible impact upon the science results, I feel that the program should be shut down until the issue of cheating is properly addressed.
Relax. Take a deep breath. Calm down. Get back on your meds.
All the Stardust team wants from this is a list of movies that SEVERAL people marked as having dust.
Let me repeat: A List of movies MARKED BY SEVERAL PEOPLE.
If you get sloppy and click your way through 10,000 images, you will likely be the only one clicking the bulk of them.
They won't get enough votes to draw any attention.
It really doesn't matter. In the end there will be a minimum vote thresh-hold required to draw the attention of the scientists.
Each movie is reviewed by many many volunteers.
The concept of "Cheating" does not apply.
Movies will be selected for further study by the WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE, the number of clicks.
You can run your score up as high as you want. You get a warm fuzzy feeling for having a high score.
But its like pissing yourself in a black wool suit. Nobody else will notice.
Doesn't matter to the Science of this project.
Random clickers, or those that look for calibration movies and act differently on those, can not influence the result.
You can not create a dust particle by clicking a mouse.
The science is not in jeopardy. This is not a video game.