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Bonded · 10-26-2011, 01:25 AM

Oh damn, to my smartphone

MonsieurFish · 10-26-2011, 01:29 AM

They are definitely catching up to us at a pretty alarming rate right now...

Wannamaker 5066
Yanbaeva 4314

Dion · 10-26-2011, 01:36 AM

Everytime I do a refresh their count rises by 3. They could be ahead by morning.

pylon · 10-26-2011, 01:37 AM

I just screenshotted the page for 20 minutes. Considering I am refreshing on an iPad 1, and the clunkyness of the site, it was surpisingly predictable. Every minute it went 5,6,6,5,5,4,6,.... a pattern like that. No break whatsoever for 20 minutes, and for 5 minutes straight, their vote tally changed 6 per minute, exactly. I was timing it with a stopwatch, and refreshing exactly on every minute.

They have definitely scripted something, I will post the screen shots if you want.

Bonded · 10-26-2011, 01:39 AM

Or six really dedicated students haha

pylon · 10-26-2011, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Bonded

Or six really dedicated students haha

Too predictable of a pattern though. Plus how are they getting around the IP issue we are running into on the cell network, where they are all getting used up? I havent been able to get a usuable IP over Rogers in 10 minutes.

Bonded · 10-26-2011, 01:45 AM

Oh, yeah, lame. Till the bitter end!

Dion · 10-26-2011, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by pylon

I just screenshotted the page for 20 minutes. Considering I am refreshing on an iPad 1, and the clunkyness of the site, it was surpisingly predictable. Every minute it went 5,6,6,5,5,4,6,.... a pattern like that. No break whatsoever for 20 minutes, and for 5 minutes straight, their vote tally changed 6 per minute, exactly. I was timing it with a stopwatch, and refreshing exactly on every minute.

They have definitely scripted something, I will post the screen shots if you want.

There must be some way to report their activities.

Dion · 10-26-2011, 01:51 AM

5078

4502

Kipperriffic · 10-26-2011, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy

It's summed up rather efficiently in the first three responses to the OP.

1. Micheal Ha signs up to CP solely to solicit our votes in a contest.
2. MMF quotes join date, says "No"
3. R75 says "prepare to be voted against"
4. HHH says "voted for wannamaker, cause it's a cool name"
5. Away we went on the jihadn't

well that clears it up...I guess there is only one thing left to do

better vote Wannamaker

pylon · 10-26-2011, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Dion

There must be some way to report their activities.

Well, it is not like we didn't step around the rule book too. BUT, we actually voted one by one, this looks like a blatant vote machine.

DownhillGoat · 10-26-2011, 02:05 AM

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Originally Posted by pylon

Well, it is not like we didn't step around the rule book too. BUT, we actually voted one by one, this looks like a blatant vote machine.

Another 150 votes in the last 25 minutes. It has to be. You can see our curve swing between am/pm. This is just a steady climb.

5097
4653

Well, at the end of the day:
1) Winnamaker is still ecstatic she came in 2nd with X thousand votes. Since she's up against university students, that's a feather in her cap.
2) The end results are still judged. The online vote does not determine the winner. Unless the Ruskies are paying off the panel, one of 8 bird feeders ain't gonna take it all.
3) Micheal Ha learned that communities are strong and can come together to form a united front at the drop of a hat. He also learned that to get them together on the united front you're hoping for, you have to give a little too.
4) CP got one of the best threads I've ever seen here, and a lot of people who don't stray into the jihad threads (myself included) got some exposure to the Pilsbury thread, which was also epic.

HalifaxDrunk · 10-26-2011, 02:09 AM

Voted

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Gozer · 10-26-2011, 02:11 AM

http://yitc.e2.myreviewroom.com/vote/139/

MonsieurFish · 10-26-2011, 02:13 AM

Michael Ha is behind this somehow...

pylon · 10-26-2011, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by MonsieurFish

Michael Ha is behind this somehow...

Well, I think our only option now, is to drive him right to the bottom, we still have 30 something hours.

We start with Breanna Baker, and move down the list.

DownhillGoat · 10-26-2011, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by pylon

Well, I think our only option now, is to drive him right to the bottom, we still have 30 something hours.

Unless of course, he is behind this, and got the votes for bird feeder instead of himself so he wasn't fingered (after finding out how the first jihad went). If the votebots behind this aren't in the bird feeder camp, and are actually in the anti-wannamaker camp, once we stop voting for wannamaker, they could turn on bird feeder and drive wannamaker down too. Quite easily based on the voting patterns.

This should be a book. It has everything. Corruption, politics, espionage, the plot twist of the mysterious Russians! Canadian best seller.

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Originally Posted by Dion

There must be some way to report their activities.

Dear YOU Innovate Tournament co-ordinators,

I'm part of a Calgary Flames fan forum, Calgarypuck. While we were vote-bombing your servers, we noticed some 'discrepancies' in the voting results. A group of a few hundred of us discovered that if we cycled through airplane mode on our phones, we could effectively vote at approximately 3 times per minute. We dedicated our troops night and day to this effort. We had a nice comfortable lead until shortly before it was announced that the contest would be extended. We then found your runner-up contestant, Dinara Yanbaeva, was climbing in the polls at an alarming rate, rapidly outpacing our most concentrated efforts. Amongst the charts and graphs that were compiled (probably rivalling your own tracking of the competition lol!), and the efforts of one man, a stopwatch, and an ipad, we noticed that the increase in votes were like clockwork. We strongly suspect that our commie spy bird lover has created a script to increase her votes.

We hope that you look into this matter promptly.

Yours truly,
Someone who has no affiliation with You Innovate, and doesn't have a clue who Kendra Wannamaker is.

pylon · 10-26-2011, 02:34 AM

I have a gut feeling this may be another random group like us. How do we even know the Dinara camp is behind this? They might not even realize what is going on.

I think this may be a fight picked with CP, not Wannamaker.

Thor · 10-26-2011, 02:37 AM

Yeah she's cheating somehow, if it was a Jihad we could find it on google I'm sure.

pylon · 10-26-2011, 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by kunkstyle

This should be a book. It has everything. Corruption, politics, espionage, the plot twist of the mysterious Russians! Canadian best seller.

Or we have a mole on the inside.... do we have any RUSSIAN members on the site? I could swear I remember at least one.

There you go, add treason to the list too.