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Originally Posted by Poe969
It's probably the cool thing to do even for people who don't watch hockey.
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That's the thing, isn't it? From what I'm reading, it's not just a matter of hockey fans voting for Scott. A lot of it is jackasses on Reddit who don't even follow hockey, but have nothing better to do than try to break the other kids' toys. And you can be sure that the number of individuals involved is far less than the number of votes Scott has received.
Some people here are braying about democracy. This has nothing to do with democracy. In the first place, the rule in a democracy is ‘one person, one vote’, not ‘one person, as many votes as he can program a bot to bombard the server with’. It's trivially easy to stuff ballots on any open Internet vote. Even if you try to shut down multiple voters, IP spoofing, bot-netting, and other shenanigans can find a way around any reasonable security setup.
Secondly, and more important, the NHL is not a democracy; it's a business. They set up this internet voting system to gin up publicity for a boring and trivial product, and it's backfiring on them because the publicity is being hogged by a stupid practical joke instead – and not even a fresh joke.