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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairfoot" data-source="post: 5021301" data-attributes="member: 23732">Nope.  I haven't said a thing about 3E fans vs 4E fans, because it's not relevant.  "Some 3E fans hate on 4E" is categorically not an answer to the question "why would someone  artificially boost 4E's popularity in a poll?".As for the theory that it's revenge against the "haters", that begs the question why.  If 4E is so clearly dominant, who would feel the need to ratchet the poll results?  And how is revenge served by trying to unobtrusively produce a false result?  Whoever did it was clumsy and got noticed, but it's highly unlikely that was their intention.Like it or not, all the evidence points to a desperate concern that 4E isn't as popular as the fans think it should be, and/or that they feel 3E is intolerably popular with ENworlders.4E is undoubtedly popular here, almost certainly more so than 3E, but apparently that's not enough.  3E has to be loathed and despised, and 4E lofted unto the heavens.Someone out there has far too much ego invested in the popularity of a game!Do you mind clarifying that a little?As it stands, the fact is that a poll was hacked or spammed in order to make 4E appear far more popular with ENworld members than it really is.The obvious contender is 4E fans who aren't satisfied with the game's already strong popularity, but you seem to be saying - and please correct me if I've misunderstood - that a more likely explanation  is that someone went to the trouble of sabotaging a poll in the hope people would notice, because watching people talk about a rigged poll provides epic lulz.Occam's razor says no, but maybe ENworld really is home to the most dedicated, inept and easily amused troll on the internet!Incidentally, we're all assuming that this is the work of an ENworld member, but Hasbro and its affiliates are no doubt also keen to maintain 4E's perceived popularity during the Christmas retail-fest.</blockquote>

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