Vote to give Teamliquid a chance to win money! - Page 26

On March 18 2010 16:17 Conquest101 wrote:
Ok, here's a breakdown of the current situation.

1. The voting doesn't end until June 15th. That's like 120 days from now. Assuming a minimum of 40k votes per day, with each person actually picking the full 20 people allowed and most votes going to a similar "top" group, we are talking probably like 3-4 million + votes needed to get into the top 20. Even if it's 1/10th that, it dwarfs what TL can manage on it's own.

2. At first, it seemed possible to just make throw away email addresses or use the gmail glitch to keep voting. But by my experience, and the posts of others recently, it seems that it now checks based on IP as well. There is also the danger that votes via the gmail glitch or from obvious throwaways like guerrilla mail will be discarded or not counted.

3. TL's "active" numbers are usually around 1500-2000 at any given time. My guess is that 1/10th of those might be willing to actually bother to vote and that's generous. It can't be done, no matter how much IP changing/email making some of us are willing to do.

4. Thus, we need to either:
a. Cheat like hell. The problem with this is twofold. First, the script would have to be relatively sophisticated as it would have to make a throwaway email, attempt to register, log into email, click link, search Rek's name, and vote. Second, of course, is the high chance of a DQ.
b. Get 4chan on it. Of course, they'd likely just cheat as well, so see above.
c. Get really, really good at marketing on other sites. Or like.... own a major website like Digg or something.

C is the best option, but it'd have to be a fairly concerted effort. And it'd have to be done well. If we post on 4chan for example, and /b/tards decide to purposefully make us lose, well that's not very effective.

Meh, anyone have some good ideas? (anyone own Digg? or their own TV station?)

On May 12 2010 22:02 Conquest101 wrote:
You mean moot and 4chan I assume. I don't believe it is taboo to just MENTION 4chan.

Meh, I hate quoting myself, but I mentioned the impossibility of getting Rek in on TL's power alone quite some time ago. The vote numbers are pulled out of my ass based on the 1st day vote count. The real number is most likely a lot smaller but probably still in the hundreds of thousands.
I figured Rek would eventually drop out of the top 50 given people's short attention spams. (Note: I fall under this category as well, so I'm not ripping on people.)

The above poster is basically correct. We need 4chan, or some other ridiculously high traffic site that would be willing to mass vote for luls basically, if such a site exists. Or we need to cheat massively and hope they don't notice somehow.