On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 23:22:37 -0500 (CDT), Shazorn
<rayburn@cc.UManitoba.CA> wrote:

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Gary Kleppe wrote:

For example, I could, if I wanted to, round up friends who don't read
fanfiction and who do have E-mail accounts. I could get them to send in
votes for my fics. They could claim that they all genuinely thought my
stuff was the best around, and who could prove otherwise?

	In your cases, gentlemen, I'm afraid cheating might be 
ineffective.  We can still tell the lion by his paw.

Meaning what?

If I did the above, how would people know for sure? (Hope you aren't
suggesting that nobody would honestly vote for my fics. :P)

And in Richard's example, how would we know it isn't just someone
imitating his style (which people are apt to do to popular authors)?

Gary Kleppe
kleppe@execpc.com, Home page http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe
My fanfics and the FFML map are on my comics/manga page,
       http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics