I complained to TVPredictions, rofl and got a response! - SCI FI FORUMS
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RE: Complaint; Major flaws in the voting system.
From: swanni (swann@tvpredictions.com)
Sent: Monday, 26 May 2008 7:36:21 AM
To: 'Blake Knight' (breakingbonesblake@hotmail.com)
Thanks…swanni
From: Blake Knight [mailto:breakingbonesblake@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 11:27 AM
To: swann@tvpredictions.com
Subject: Complaint; Major flaws in the voting system.
As you may know the HDTV poll has been getting alot of activity and by that i mean the amount of abuse the system is taking, votes going up by 10-20 every second? that's abit unbelievable since both fan bases only have around 20,000 fans each if i'm correct and only 1/3 of them being active.
I investigated rumours of both sides abusing the system and was only conclusive when i found information on the HDNet Fights Fan Forum that they were infact misusing internet explorer functions to get the upper gain on the polls.
Turns out that several members of the HDNet fan base were infact using either 3rd party programs or IE logics to decieve the system and gain on Jericho, a large portion of the MMA fans were teaching one another how to clear cookies and refresh pages to hijack the system.
So i thought "I wonder how i could or infact Swann could fix the dilemma" only to find that the situation could be solved unless the poll was reset with a new poll system, so i looked around some more and turns out that CAPTCHA a bot detecting software that forces human users to enter an italic-wavey word or numbers to achieve human status due to computers not being able to read the subject and along with that the voting system used by TVPredictions isn't IP based so users can still decieve the system again and again.
To sum this complaint up i think it would be in the best interests of you to use CAPTCHA and some form of IP checking software to make your poll results reasonably correct, as i read earlier your polls are used by all forms of media and i'm not quite sure if highly incorrect facts (polls) were used in articles for reasons beyond my knowledge.
Thanks for your time.
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Dude cried to TVPredictions and got pwned by their reply...
And, the fact that this guy would post his personal info just shows the nature of their board versus ours. Its one thing to lose, its another thing to lose, cry, write in to complain in an attempt to discredit our victory, and then post copy of the email is just ghey. Pathetic. When its all said and done, there will be only one thing to say....SCOREBOARD!!
(And, Blake Knight, no one likes snitches...)