In this instance, the voting is very clearly meant to be for a skater, not against others. The people doing this out of spite are perfectly allowed to do so but it's an ugly and petty thing to do. Saying they're only 'taking an opportunity' doesn't make it any less bad.
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In this instance, the voting is very clearly meant to be for a skater, not against others. The people doing this out of spite are perfectly allowed to do so but it's an ugly and petty thing to do. Saying they're only 'taking an opportunity' doesn't make it any less bad.
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Yeah it’s more problematic than anonymous judging system. It should be taken down.
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Well looks like we broke it.
http://www.teamchallengecup.com/captainspick
http://www.teamchallengecup.com/captainspick
Voting will be temporarily suspended while the poll administrator addresses issues of automated voting that have been detected. The poll will be reopened as soon as the issues have been resolved and additional automated voting safeguards can be activated.
Totally knew there was some automated voting happening!
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I'm not sure they can truly detect automated voting. In any event, the 'automated' voting they identified must've been widespread enough to disable the vote.
Anyone wanna place bets they will reset all the counters when the put the poll back online?
Anyone wanna place bets they will reset all the counters when the put the poll back online?
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I wonder if they will add Mirai and Grant and reset the votes... who knows. It will be fun to see what happens.
I suspect they can detect automated when it is poorly done. If the same IP address is voting at too precise of intervals to be a human... it should not be too hard to figure out.
Well if nothing else... it is once again keeping us engaged.
I suspect they can detect automated when it is poorly done. If the same IP address is voting at too precise of intervals to be a human... it should not be too hard to figure out.
Well if nothing else... it is once again keeping us engaged.
I'm not sure they can truly detect automated voting. In any event, the 'automated' voting they identified must've been widespread enough to disable the vote.
Anyone wanna place bets they will reset all the counters when the put the poll back online?
I actually would love if they released the voting data (masking IPs with some id numbers, for example).
But then i bet a finger its never happening.
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It is pretty bad that they had to shut it down.
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Reminds me of something 4Chan would do.....cause voting to be suspended....
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You are the first sport.sru poster I see on GS. You should've gone with a different ID so that you wouldn't be identified. Being a sport.sru poster isn't exactly a thing that would look good on a resume.
Oh, by the way, a person multivoting =/= botting. Some people find exploits and spend their prescious time on voting manually.
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What's the point? They'll end up with the same stuff except that the voting span will be shorter.Anyone wanna place bets they will reset all the counters when the put the poll back online?
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The website claims they will be implementing "additional automated voting safeguards". Register to vote, maybe?
Pollcaster is not very sophisticated software, least of all the free version, which the TCC site appears to be using. (Check the individual URLs posted a few pages back in this thread... they all have URLs beginning with pollcaster.com/widget/free/)
You can't modify the votes or deep-dive into the analytics. The TCC website just embeds the Pollcaster links on their page, how could the TCC folks make any determination of 'automated voting'? Only Pollcaster could know that, assuming they cared enough to investigate it for the free polls that teamchallengecup.com is running. I'll venture to guess that won't happen, and this current voting method will be scrapped while they find something better.
You can't trust the internet to vote on anything 'serious' anyway.
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You are the first sport.sru poster I see on GS. You should've gone with a different ID so that you wouldn't be identified. Being a sport.sru poster isn't exactly a thing that would look good on a resume.
Oh, by the way, a person multivoting =/= botting. Some people find exploits and spend their prescious time on voting manually.
What's wrong with my sports.sru past?) I'm going to leave that place)
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People voted. Let their voices be heard!
Things might get a little dull around here while the TCC poll is down, so I created a little poll here to help us pass the time:
Which voting safeguards should the TCC site implement?
https://www.pollcaster.com/c/poll/7q2ZKYd1W1lX85dPgozCMJQDdde
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The Bodyguard (1992) ??People voted. Let their voices be heard!
Things might get a little dull around here while the TCC poll is down, so I created a little poll here to help us pass the time:
Which voting safeguards should the TCC site implement?
https://www.pollcaster.com/c/poll/7q2ZKYd1W1lX85dPgozCMJQDdde
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