Possible fraudulant activity with remainder votes
There have been reports by readers that within a span of an hour or so, hundreds of votes are being recorded on the remainder blog contest. This could be a coordinated effort by an alliance of blog contestants or manipulation by an individual. Some emails I have received accuse specific blogs of colluding with independent research providers to issue misleading reports to drive up the votes of other blogs. The accused blogs have responded with:
The allegations of the complaint against us are outrageous and defamatory and we will defend our blog and its voting practices vigorously.... Their true issue is the valuation that uglychart.com readers place on their own common blog. That disagreement should be resolved in the remainder contest, not with false allegations.
I will keep you updated on the developments.
Comments
Hi Tom,
Illegal division by zero is a bug, I like to think of the refresh thing more as a "feature."
Ugly,
You have a "refresh" bug. If you just select a blog to vote off, hit enter, and then refresh, it registers another vote.
Do this multiple times and you can rack up a huge amount of votes in seconds.