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We have another "spike" problem, this time even more blatant, on Ahui
Herrera's A&M Train Station. Between last night and this morning, more than
30 votes were cast for this model (out of less than 40 total cast) in all
the special categories. Perhaps someone is trying to make a point, or
sabotage the contest, (and it could be anyone, I'm not even pointing the
finger at Ahui here) but it is now obvious that using the honor system just
isn't going to work, nor is this particular voting engine.
Thanks to Mark, Shane and Ryan for alerting me to this (and keeping track of
vote counts).
I'm disappointed...no, I'm downright ^&%$^& angry that this is happening.
I need to think about the best way to handle the voting so no-one can cheat.
It will be simple and it will limit the people who can vote - I'll post
again as soon as I have it sorted out, and we'll start over.
Sorry to everyone who must be as disappointed as I am with what's happening,
it's very sad that even in the Lego community we have our share of #^%&$'s.
Kevin
(having a hard time keeping my language family-friendly at this point)
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| (...) I was wondering how long this would take to happen... It is pretty sad, its one thing to vote (once) for your own creation but to intentionally sabotage a contest that is relatively meaning less. By that I mean there are no real prizes, (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Ugh. I spent a fair amount of time viewing all the entries and carefully making choices. Not an entirely satisfying end to such deliberation. It wouldn't be unreasonable to limit voting to the contestants, though that would mean I wouldn't get (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) <snip> (...) something that is supposed to be for fun. I myself have not voted yet. I had planned on fully looking over the entries, when I had time to do so (it's not like I let myself have a lot of time for that sort of thing). Also, for me, (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Understandably so, after all the effort you put into making this a fun oriented excercise. (...) That's really unfortunate for the people who've voted (I haven't yet voted because it's taking a long time to go through all the entries and weigh (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| Might I make several suggestions. 1) If you are concerned about multiple voting use the poll taking engine that is used by the webiste From Bricks to Bantans. They use an engine that allows only 1 vote per IP address (in essence 1 vote per person). (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| Even my g/f, while a LEGO tolerant signigicant other, is not an AFOL, was able to spot voting irregularities: I won't say which category or what model (except to say not mine), but when she saw that 1st place had a huge lead over 2nd, she looked at (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| Kevin: Having followed this topic and thought a bit about it, I'd like to suggest that simple voting isn't the best means at arriving at a quality outcome. Simple voting becomes a matter of popularity, and if I had an entry, I could email all my (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) The honor system is not dead. If you are willing to declare *any* social system a total failure because one person (and this may only be the work of one person) is cheating the system, then you'd pretty much have to kiss civilization goodbye. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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