17th July 2019
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Ioldcp poll botting

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17th July 2019, 04:32 PM

https://www.strawpoll.me/18334176/r

So you mean to tell me 73 individual people voted? I find it very unlikely 43 people want to keep Ioldcp up 24/7 so there definitely has to be some botting or vpn usage going on.
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17th July 2019, 04:46 PM

Can a mod move this to debates and please remove this note afterwards.


Ok, on closer inspection it turns out it was tampered with.
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17th July 2019, 04:48 PM

He should just put up another poll
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17th July 2019, 04:53 PM

frogboykindle wrote on 17th July 2019, 04:48 PM:
He should just put up another pole

Check my recent post
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17th July 2019, 06:11 PM

ya i agree DEF BOTS BRO
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17th July 2019, 06:28 PM

Most likely somebody used vpn votes but then again it is possible that many people actually voted.
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17th July 2019, 07:09 PM

frogboykindle wrote on 17th July 2019, 04:48 PM:
He should just put up another pole
We must make a pole!
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17th July 2019, 07:36 PM

flameknight333 wrote on 17th July 2019, 07:09 PM:
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frogboykindle wrote on 17th July 2019, 04:48 PM:
He should just put up another pole
We must make a pole!
I didn’t even realize that UNTIL NOW
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17th July 2019, 08:34 PM

I feel like a straw poll is not a great way to get a thought. Straw polls can easily be cheated and people can get friends who don’t even play the game to vote for them or like I said above, cheat votes. We need a real time debate like Ian suggested.
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17th July 2019, 11:31 PM

weend2014 wrote on 17th July 2019, 04:32 PM:
https://www.strawpoll.me/18334176/r
So you mean to tell me 73 individual people voted? I find it very unlikely 43 people want to keep Ioldcp up 24/7 so there definitely has to be some botting or vpn usage going on.
Update: the poll now has a total of 105 votes. This has to be rigged. These votes were either...

a. Sent by the same people using VPN, Puffin, phone & computer, etc.
b. Sent to people who are not in the community who are clueless and just voted for what the person who sent it to them told them to vote for.
c. Someone or some people used bots to get fake votes.

I get that people want to keep iOldCP but honestly, why rig votes? Rigging votes is not giving administration honest opinions and it's really just wasting everyone's time.

The votes are 55 (Stay up 24/7) - 42 (Discontinued) - 8 (Online for only set periods of the week)

- 105 people were not even on for last GOM. (We didn't even make half of that, we had 2 teams.)
- 105 people don't play OldCP. (as of summer 2017 to present)
- 105 people don't play iOldCP.
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18th July 2019, 02:22 AM

Joseph wrote on 17th July 2019, 11:31 PM:
Quote:
weend2014 wrote on 17th July 2019, 04:32 PM:
https://www.strawpoll.me/18334176/r
So you mean to tell me 73 individual people voted? I find it very unlikely 43 people want to keep Ioldcp up 24/7 so there definitely has to be some botting or vpn usage going on.
Update: the poll now has a total of 105 votes. This has to be rigged. These votes were either...
a. Sent by the same people using VPN, Puffin, phone & computer, etc.
b. Sent to people who are not in the community who are clueless and just voted for what the person who sent it to them told them to vote for.
c. Someone or some people used bots to get fake votes.
I get that people want to keep iOldCP but honestly, why rig votes? Rigging votes is not giving administration honest opinions and it's really just wasting everyone's time.
The votes are 55 (Stay up 24/7) - 42 (Discontinued) - 8 (Online for only set periods of the week)
- 105 people were not even on for last GOM. (We didn't even make half of that, we had 2 teams.)
- 105 people don't play OldCP. (as of summer 2017 to present)
- 105 people don't play iOldCP.

Make that 124 people...



Funny how all except one of the 19 "people" who "voted" within the past two hours all voted for stay up 24/7.

Lol the only group who clearly didn't bot was for having it up certain days. XD
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18th July 2019, 04:56 AM

I feel like the best and probably most accurate thing to do during this entire thing is to create a day and time for everyone to come on OldCP. During this time we'll have those classic banners that say "yes" and "no" or whatever, and we can have people vote that way. The middle space could be used for the choice of keeping iOldCP up but in intervals.

Damen could also take down registration during this time as well so people couldn't create alternate accounts to prevent accurate and 100% truthful feedback from the community.
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18th July 2019, 10:55 AM

sarabareille wrote on 18th July 2019, 04:56 AM:
I feel like the best and probably most accurate thing to do during this entire thing is to create a day and time for everyone to come on OldCP. During this time we'll have those classic banners that say "yes" and "no" or whatever, and we can have people vote that way. The middle space could be used for the choice of keeping iOldCP up but in intervals.
Damen could also take down registration during this time as well so people couldn't create alternate accounts to prevent accurate and 100% truthful feedback from the community.

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18th July 2019, 11:56 AM

sarabareille wrote on 18th July 2019, 04:56 AM:
I feel like the best and probably most accurate thing to do during this entire thing is to create a day and time for everyone to come on OldCP. During this time we'll have those classic banners that say "yes" and "no" or whatever, and we can have people vote that way. The middle space could be used for the choice of keeping iOldCP up but in intervals.
Damen could also take down registration during this time as well so people couldn't create alternate accounts to prevent accurate and 100% truthful feedback from the community.

Then again he could do what would clearly benefit the community more and thats keep Ioldcp down or make it patreon only again.
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19th July 2019, 03:04 AM

sarabareille wrote on 18th July 2019, 04:56 AM:
I feel like the best and probably most accurate thing to do during this entire thing is to create a day and time for everyone to come on OldCP. During this time we'll have those classic banners that say "yes" and "no" or whatever, and we can have people vote that way. The middle space could be used for the choice of keeping iOldCP up but in intervals.
Damen could also take down registration during this time as well so people couldn't create alternate accounts to prevent accurate and 100% truthful feedback from the community.
He could also randomly take off registration the day before so people can't prepare fake accounts.
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