Re:No, the money you spend on lotteries doesn’t go to the park
by bluecalm on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:30AM
(#35811571)
It's not like raffle solves the problem. Instead of bots you can multi accounters/users. The logistics is more complicated but doable if the item is desirable enough.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:No, the money you spend on lotteries doesn’t go to the park
by greiskul on Thursday May 04, 2023 @03:22AM
(#35812342)
For something physical, specially something run by the government, you can ask people during account creation for some identification like full name + date of birth, not allow duplicate accounts to enter the same raffle, and check the id of the winners when they get there (so you don't have companies creating bots).
Re:No, the money you spend on lotteries doesn’t go to the park
by throw9away6 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:32AM
(#35815022)
Harder to game, if desired enough people will still game it by buying entries for others
Re:No, the money you spend on lotteries doesn’t go to the park
by cowsandmilk on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:56AM
(#35813167)
Grand Canyon’s river lottery doesn’t use recreation.gov and has measures to prevent multi accounters including lifetime bans (which have been enforced) if you apply with multiple accounts in the same lottery.
Re:No, the money you spend on lotteries doesn’t go to the park
by bluecalm on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:11AM
(#35827724)
I was answering to a comment any collectibles. There multi-accounting is rampant and little can be done about it. When it comes to non-physical goods then a lot more can be done about enforcement.