On February 06 2010 17:50 PoP wrote: Pretty sure the webmasters of that site are having fun and adding random amounts of votes to SF seeing we always mass-counter, granting them tons of free hits.
This seems plausible, actually.
Seeing as every single SF forum I visit has nothing about this poll at all.
And votes seem to come in as packs, like they suddenly get a ton of votes and then none at all in the next few hours.
On February 06 2010 17:50 PoP wrote: Pretty sure the webmasters of that site are having fun and adding random amounts of votes to SF seeing we always mass-counter, granting them tons of free hits.
All we are doing is spamming their poll, why would they want us coming only to do that?
But it does seem crazy how SF just randomly jumped up by so many votes so quickly.
I set up 4 windows for tonight. Don't know how SF gained such a huge lead.
Hopefully we can turn things around. I think we just want to preserve our ego and not lose to some SF cheaters. This poll doesn't really matter. Who's going to go to Colombia for SC?
This reminds me of the vote in The Escapist for "Best Game Developer in history", where no matter how many votes we scrambled, Relic would get another thousand just like that. Where we would have a steady growth in votes, they'd just jump 500 votes in one update, like someone was fiddling around with the counter. And in that vote, they were checking the IP pretty hard as well
Alright by now, they're obviously not voting individually. It's probably just one guy who's hacked the site and is just upping the vote. We've basically lost unless an expert hacker like R1CH can counter-hack them.
People are asking when the poll closes. On the site it says in spanish that it will close one week before the event and that the event will be on March, but I didn't find an exact date.
And yes, I think the webmasters themselves are upping SF's votes randomly. They must like SF a lot...
4) Vote for starcraft once; wait until the result page shows up.
5) Press "Stop"
6) Switch over to the "Play" tab again and go down to "repeat macro". Change the max from 3 to 99999, then press play loop, and leave it open in another window all night.
7) You can actually do this with multiple windows, but I'm not sure how much faster it is because the more windows you do it with, the slower each one operates (also, your browsing/downloading will slow down if you do too many). Stick with 1 or 2.
someone post this at gg.net ^^ we can overtake this poll again by the end of today if we really try edit : set the timeout in the addon options to like 10 minutes or something the site takes hella long to load and sometimes the macro stops if the site hasn't loaded within the default time [one minute]
4) Vote for starcraft once; wait until the result page shows up.
5) Press "Stop"
6) Switch over to the "Play" tab again and go down to "repeat macro". Change the max from 3 to 99999, then press play loop, and leave it open in another window all night.
7) You can actually do this with multiple windows, but I'm not sure how much faster it is because the more windows you do it with, the slower each one operates (also, your browsing/downloading will slow down if you do too many). Stick with 1 or 2.
someone post this at gg.net ^^ we can overtake this poll again by the end of today if we really try edit : set the timeout in the addon options to like 10 minutes or something the site takes hella long to load and sometimes the macro stops if the site hasn't loaded within the default time [one minute]
The SF people can't be using a macro... their votes are going up like 120,000 in the last 12 hours
their score is increasing now. within 3 manual votes of my own they have incresed 500ish. obviously someone must have reverse engineered the packet the poll is sending and mass pipelines it to them without being restricted to the ass-slow page.
EPT
