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The Poll
« on: October 13, 2002, 04:21:58 PM »
Whoever's cheating on the poll (I have my suspicion of who it is) knock it off. The poll is designed to limit your votes to once per person--there are obvious and easy ways to circumvent that, but I was hoping you'd all be honest enough not to do it. I'd prefer that our crew be selected by everybody rather than by one cheater.
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2002, 11:09:42 AM »
find out who it is and server ban him. iirc it means he cant get onto the site at all. seams fair to me.
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2002, 12:43:02 PM »
The poll will now log IP addresses in addition to setting browser cookies to block multiple votes.
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2002, 01:29:40 PM »
but what if whoever it was has cookies on several computers?
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2002, 01:48:42 PM »
Look, if it's SO important that you have to log in on multiple computers to vote, be my guest.

For crying out loud it's just a poll.
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2002, 02:37:36 PM »
Why don't we program the computer to cut off the right hand of anyone who votes twice? ;D
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2002, 03:51:41 PM »
computers can do that?
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2002, 05:03:56 PM »
Rather than play nice, the cheater has thumbed his nose at my suggestion and gone off the deep end. The easiest way to stop him is, of course, to stop doing crew polls. There's no sense going on when one person is effectively making all the choices. There were only a few more slots in the crew anyway, so it's no big loss. I was looking forward to "Alien Commentator on the Human Condition," but oh well.
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2002, 05:04:08 PM »
Holy Crap Zahn jumped 16 points in only 8 hours :-/  Poor woody, maybe Fell will make you the barkeeps sidekick  :-[
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2002, 05:14:24 PM »
Actually, Zhaan jumped 21 votes in about two hours.
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2002, 06:48:13 PM »
Okay folks, here's the final word(s):
1: The cheater sent me an email and apologized. No more cheating will take place.
2: The sudden burst of votes, according to some anonymous tips and an interesting trail of IPs, is not the result of cheating but of partisan campaigning. 42, a devoted Farscape fan, told the denizens of SciFi.com about our little poll and brought in a bunch of new votes. Not the normal method of voting, but certainly a good way to increase our hits. So thanks to the cheater for apologizing and ceasing, and thanks to 42 for smoothing over the situation in an economically sensible way.
3: Because the problem has been dealt with, crew polls will continue as normal. Disregard previous statements to the contrary. And please, while we dislike spam as much as teh next website, don't feel bad about bringing a few friends with you. Everything that's good for the site is good for you, unless you're my evil nemesis (that's you, Kinko's, if you're listening--and I know you are).
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2002, 11:21:05 PM »
Scapers are quite fanatic at the moment, probably surpassing the insanity levels of Trekkies, and whatever you call Cheers and Simpson fans.
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2002, 11:56:57 PM »
I would call them "Cheerios" and "normal people" respectively.
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2002, 12:17:17 PM »
the vampire in the current poll wasn't such a weird choice as the results said because you'd get to rise from the dead as a vampire
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Re: The Poll
« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2002, 12:52:48 PM »
That's only if he vampirized you. This particular vampire would just kill you. With a gun.
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