About the voting booth...

[jaldaen]

Is anyone else worried that there might be ballot stuffing?

Is there a piece of technology that I don't know about that actually lets Morrus know if there is someone voting more than once for a particular encounter?

Just curious,
Jaldaen

PS: I am not a participant in the encounter contest, but just a concerned voter ;-)

 

[der_kluge]

I'm with you. I _am_ a participant, and also an observer, and I just observed "catch as catch can" jump from bottom of the pile to having 31% of the vote.

Something smells fishy - and it's not the catfish in that encounter.

 

[Victim]

My campus has tons of computers. I don't know if it's possible, but one might be able to go to a computer lab and vote from each computer, and then go to a different lab and do it again. I that works, and I was of a mind to do so, then I vote several hundred times with relatively little effort.

 

[xjp]

Yep, the polling has taken a turn for the worst. Somebody always has to F' it up just because they can. Sad.

 

[DMaple]

I found that from my works PC I could vote as many times as I liked from the same machine without even having to log out, just click on the vote button. Its definiately busted.

I think it would be much better to have a group of judges make the final choice.

 

[Zerovoid]

Maybe the poll could just be posted in one of the forums. At least that way, people would have to make up a new user name for each ballot.

 

[PurplePCEater]

Morrus - your attention please?

Not a hugely regular poster by any means, but a frequent lurker...

I don't wish to point fingers or anything, but in the time I've been out for supper tonight and have got back in again (all of about 3 hours) the proportion of votes cast seem to have been shaken up quite considerably. Up until ca. 8pm GMT there was a fairly consistant trickle of votes in for most entries, and had been for much of the day.

I'd like to ask Morrus to discard 2 votes for 'Harmonies in the snow' from my current IP address (80.3.248.17 - that of the firewall at toreador.dyns.cx) since I was testing a theory of mine.

As far as I was aware the voting was restricted to one vote/IP address, or at least one vote/unique IP per time period. My recent test proves this to quite blatently be untrue, since I was able to vote twice for the same entry from the same physical (and network) location within the time it took to refresh the page each time. This in and of itself obviously makes a mockery of any voting that is taking place.

I didn't quite get round to entering an encounter myself (by 2am GMT the stat block wasn't looking quite right and I was too tired to take it any further) but I do know the author of 'Harmonies' (and considered it worthy of voting for regardless). Picked this one to test with simply becasue it was unlikely to get significant numbers of votes (based on past voting history) in the time period of the test.

For future heats this is something that perhaps should be taken care of, or another voting mechanism considered. I'm not in Florida, or I'd demand a recount...

Thanks to all who've taken part - it's been a fascinating competition to observe.

 

[DMaple]

Its not a complete mockery, after all "Pop Idol" allowed for multiple votes.

Mind you it cost you money for each vote.

 

[Moonglum]

I just observed "catch as catch can" jump from bottom of the pile to having 31% of the vote.

Hehe, I wrote an email about that a few hours ago... I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed.

 

[Wicht]

I too would prefer to see the heats take place on the board polls rather than the main page poll.

just my 2 cps

my entry is not in the current crop but it would be nice to have some confidence in your ability to get a fair hearing