GoZips Posted December 4, 2007 Report Posted December 4, 2007 Starting about 11:15 a.m. OTTO supporters have begun a massive attack on Zippy's vote lead.They have taken over 100 votes out of her lead in less than TWENTY minutes.Take time to vote. fight back. Quote
GoZips Posted December 4, 2007 Author Report Posted December 4, 2007 In less than two hours OTTO has reduced Zippy's lead by more than 270 votes.This is not good. Quote
GoZips88 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Posted December 4, 2007 Zippy's lead is down to around 1500 votes as of about 3:30 this afternoon and it continues to slowly drop. She had a lead of around 2500 votes at one point. I think 3-against-1 is in full swing. Don't forget to post a few (hundred) votes this evening while listening to the Akron/Winthrop game. Quote
ZachTheZip Posted December 4, 2007 Report Posted December 4, 2007 I'll be firing up the voting later on this evening. After I re-register all my deleted screen names. Again. Quote
GoZips88 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Posted December 4, 2007 uakronkid - What format were you using that caused them to delete the names again? I know to stay away from names ending in numbers that run consecutively. Just curious so I don't have the same happen again as well. Quote
ZachTheZip Posted December 4, 2007 Report Posted December 4, 2007 uakronkid - What format were you using that caused them to delete the names again? I know to stay away from names ending in numbers that run consecutively. Just curious so I don't have the same happen again as well.That was actually what I was doing. It's easier to keep track of them, and it doesn't take as long to re-register them with a copy+paste thing. It's actually faster to register them that way than to come up with a unique name each time I vote again, and then write it down to remember for later. I use a combination of names, each with numbers after them. They only delete a few of the names at a time and the other ones are intact. Quote
GoZips Posted December 4, 2007 Author Report Posted December 4, 2007 I have found by trial and error that non-consecutive strings seem to be left in tact.Example: FARK, FARKB, FARKE, FARKJ, FARKQ, etc.Example: FARK1, FARK4, FARK7, FARK9Also, some reentered strings with sequentual letters or numbers seem to be left alone. Go figure.I send an e-mail to the webmaster concering the vote tallying. In twelve weeks no mascot has rammed in that number of votes in such a short time.Either there is a program written (called a script) that gets around their "gotcha" password scheme or they are converting votes for Zippy into votes for OTTO.That would be an inside job and unlikely. But, over fifty votes for OTTO in three minutes and three for Zippy is some sort of cheating.The rate at which Zippy votes is increasing is nearly impossible to be that slow. Over the course of this contest Zippy votes tend to accumulate at a steady pace. Quote
jeaglet1 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Posted December 5, 2007 Zippy's lead down to just over 300, and hairy has over taken goldy Quote
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