@bobaga_fett:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
I feel that a more appropriate analogy is below.
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Hugh is a student at a high school in a small town called Numa. Hugh's favourite holiday of the year is Halloween because he likes dressing up and pretending to be someone else. Hugh has gone Trick-or-treating every year since he was born and this year he has thought of a way in which he could potentially double or triple the amount of candy he would normally receive this year. Hugh creates a plan in which he will dress up in 2 or 3 different costumes over the course of the evening and knock on the same doors two or three times,
pretending to be someone else in order to benefit personally.
The plan goes off without a hitch until his mother discovers his giant stash of candy and his multiple costumes a few weeks later and burns his costumes and throws away all his candy.
One year goes by and Halloween is soon coming up again. Hugh had been thinking about it since February and talking to people about it often. Hugh heard from a friend that a nearby town, called Diy, is famous for having massive amounts of candy and that a group of his friends are going this year. Hugh tells them of how he managed to snag triple the amount of candy last year by wearing different costumes and they all agree that it will be best for them to wear different costumes and split the loot when the night is over.
Word gets out and friends of Hugh's from a town named Minecraft hears word of this town with massive amounts of candy. They too hatch a plan to go and wear multiple costumes in order to maximize their potential amount of candy. The group of kids from Numa and the group of kids from Minecraft meet up at Diy and hold a small contest: whoever gets the most candy by the end of the night wins. Both groups are unaware but suspicious that the other is going to use multiple costumes in order to increase their overall candy supply.
Both groups are unaware that the town of Diy has a system in place (because of their reputation for having massive amounts of candy on Halloween) where only people they know receive more candy at each doorstep and people they do not know only receive one piece of candy at each doorstep. By the end of the night, Numa ends up with more candy overall but when they split it they end up with nothing more than what they would have received had they trick-or-treated at home in their respective neighborhoods.
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In short, when Hugh does this in his hometown he is effecting only his community and the people around him. When he does this with friends in another town he is effecting their community. Is it more acceptable to do the same thing in your town in another town where your reputation is less at risk? Probably not. But you have to realize too that the town of Diy was smart enough to realize that some people would learn how to cheat the system and thus they adhered to a code by which they could prevent abuse of their candy supply.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that the DIY website was clever enough to realize that some people were going to try and cheat the system and thus "cheating the system" is futile and out of sheer pleasure for the idea of cheating the system, nothing more. It doesn't harm the overall results much, if at all and that is the main difference. Our extra votes at DIY did not harm the results whereas placing multiple votes on NUMA effects things permanently within the community.
for example, I, and others, used to have a few maps showing a perfect rating of 5. Then Evil_Sire came along and sniped all my (and others) maps,
permanently changing the average rating of my (and others) maps and my (and others) archive(s) overall.
So go ahead and continue to compare us to Hitler but I think you are blowing this all out of proportion on the effect this stupid contest (in which I only ever voted on in Firefox, once) has on our community.