MikeN Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 http://www.dci.org/news/news.cfm?news_id=1...8f-a549f35b9dea Mike The online voting poll developed for our fans to determine the order of appearance at the upcoming Masters of the Summer Music Games event in Murfreesboro, Tenn., has been cancelled.Early Monday morning, attentive members of our interactive team detected the use of an automated "voting bot" which has severely skewed and compromised the voting results, forcing us to cancel the contest and negate the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeHester Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 <**> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmenBari78 Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 That sucks. Shame on whoever did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancerlady Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 What's a voting bot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaSqueegee Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 What's a voting bot? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was wondering the same thing!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbobaz Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 in a nutshell---a program that automatically goes in and votes the way the programmer sets it to vote. not a very nice thing to do---welcome to the digital age. bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherDaryl Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 (edited) What do these folks think this is, American Idol? B) Edited July 26, 2005 by OtherDaryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJetson Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 One does not have to look far on here to see threats of manipulation of the vote made RIGHT on this forum. I applaud voiding this vote. It was tainted in many ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krista Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 how is it tainted if everyone goes in ONE TIME (just like I did) and makes their vote? Or does tainted translate to "my corps of choice ends up in a not so good place so I don't like it?" If people were honestly out to get someone, then you can call it tainted, like what happened. But I hardly think calling it tainted before this mess is appropriate. It's a fun way to involve the fans.... that someone else went and ruined for us all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancerlady Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Exactly Kristam, I don't know how it was "tainted" when we were at first given the opportunity to vote how WE wanted to vote. "Threats of manipulation"? Oh please that's a little dramatic.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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