Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: Fellfrosch on October 13, 2002, 04:21:58 PM
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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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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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The poll will now log IP addresses in addition to setting browser cookies to block multiple votes.
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but what if whoever it was has cookies on several computers?
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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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Why don't we program the computer to cut off the right hand of anyone who votes twice? ;D
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computers can do that?
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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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Holy Crap Zahn jumped 16 points in only 8 hours :-/ Poor woody, maybe Fell will make you the barkeeps sidekick :-[
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Actually, Zhaan jumped 21 votes in about two hours.
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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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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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I would call them "Cheerios" and "normal people" respectively.
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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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That's only if he vampirized you. This particular vampire would just kill you. With a gun.
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Wow. That would stink. Not even any of the appropriate flair to it. Oh well.
As for our current poll...the anime stereotypes presented seem a bit focused and a little limited. I can't find one I like. There's tons of anime characters I can think of that don't fall into any of those categories. A few too many gender-specific ones as well.
And since this is under 'Everything Else' and I can't really get off-topic...
Go vote today people.
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I wanted to include every conceivable anime archetype in the poll, but sadly there's not that much room. You'll just have to choose from among the available options.
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I'm still bitter about the fact that I cannot vote.
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Can you really not vote?
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ya Tage blocked multipule votes from the same ISP after the Spam problem. So 42 allwayse Votes on the new polls before I even get online. And sence we're on a LAN we have the same ISP.
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It's true.
And I don't even feel any remorse. I'm so heartless.