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Originally Posted by psyang
It seems likely that ip restrictions is something he enabled after he saw the "vote flooding".
There are issues with ip restrictions too - if he only allows one vote per ip address, he's going to prevent most households where multiple people want to vote since they will all be seen as a single ip. I'm hoping he looks at the vote distribution and only culls the obvious outliers.
In the end, there's no way of knowing unless he provides the raw data. I don't think there is any malicious intent on the site's end - I'm willing to chalk it up to naivety.
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If it turns out that someone, presumably from CP based on his comments, has been using some sort of bot or other clear method of influencing the poll that doesn't involve interested humans voting normally, then I'll retract all the negative things I said.
However, based on the site owner's comments, it is pretty clear that he considers promoting the poll and encouraging Flames fans to vote in larger numbers than other fanbases as cheating and ruining the poll.
It would appear that just because we have a centralized community on CP that supports our team in large numbers, when other teams don't know and don't care about this guy's website or his poll, somehow means we cheated.