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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 8:42 pm
This might not be the right thread for it, but why do people think the vote bots are all voting for Dick or Danielle? I thought vote bots were more a teenage thing and therefore more for shows like American Idol. It just seems a stretch that people would do that for Dick and Danielle. Bots are about obsession, and this season's been so lack-lustre I don't see any obsession anywhere - maybe lots of very anti people at times but not much pro.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 9:07 pm
Tried googling for Dick and vote-bots and the only time I see a push to vote-bot for Dick is when people were trying to mees up Eric and Eric wanted to kick out Dick. I couldn't find anything which was just for Dick for Dick's sake.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 9:19 pm
"This year with the advent of spoilers, east coast tv feeds on the net, etc. It would be very easy for West Coasters to be able to cast their votes. Every website on BB now has Spoiler threads. ." But not all the viewers hang out in BB message boards. Heck, I hang out here in the BB section a lot but that day I had no idea that a special instant AP vote was coming up! I have usually avoided the board all afternoon on eviction day so I could watch it play out LIVE. It was the only time the show might hold a surprise or two. "To be honest, I think there would be an argument for West Coast being deprived, or that WC would be supporters of Dani. " I wondered the same thing. Daniele and Dick both live in California, don't they? "Or, Sanfran, it's not an eastcoast/westcoast thing at all, but rather the fact that the vote was unexpected and there was no time to skew the vote in favour of the Donatos by the use of such means as vote bots." An excellent point, Kmjm! I hadn't thought of that, but that's clearly a reasonable explanation. I'd like to see another surprise vote without the west coast being able to participate, just to see what would happen. Once could just be an anomaly, twice would be the first evidence of a pattern.
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Kmjm
Member
05-19-2002
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 9:40 pm
Sanfran, I don't really recall, but I think I let the votebot run overnight- it must have cast thousands of votes. It's like a vote every few seconds. It's incredibly easy to use, you just start it up and it does it all for you. Kitt, all I can say is I saw links for votebots to vote to save Dick more than once. And people on this board said they were using whole offices of computers to vote in Dick's support. I did not see anything comparable for any other hg this season, except perhaps in support of Jen when Dick was so cruel to her. Edited to add- I guess the main point here is that it doesn't take a huge amount of people using votebots to make a significant difference. In 2-3 hours you could cast several hundred votes easily on a single computer.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 10:20 pm
"I guess the main point here is that it doesn't take a huge amount of people using votebots to make a significant difference. In 2-3 hours you could cast several hundred votes easily on a single computer." That's what I figured, Kmjm. That demonstrates that it's quite possible for a handful of Dick's California friends and/or fans using votebots could have easily skewed the vote in D/D's favor.....right up to the moment of the surprise AP vote that didn't give them the time they needed to work their black magic. Thanks!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 10:21 pm
Maybe you're right Kmjm, it just seems bizarre to me. For the most part the vote results seemed to echo public opinion. But then I live in California ;).
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Merrysea
Member
08-13-2004
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 11:05 pm
Of course, it also would have been possible for all of Jessica's fans or Jen's fans to use vote bots to vote against Dick. And if CBS is really locking out the votes after receiving ten from an IP address, it really doesn't matter how many vote bots are used, because it would stop counting after ten from any given IP address.
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Stopthemadness
Member
07-15-2005
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 11:23 pm
Is this show still on?? I thought it ended last week.......
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Lucymac
Member
07-06-2005
| Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 6:20 am
Tried googling for Dick and vote-bots and the only time I see a push to vote-bot for Dick is when people were trying to mees up Eric and Eric wanted to kick out Dick. I couldn't find anything which was just for Dick for Dick's sake. And that was a key vote because it helped keep Dick in the game because the DR made Eric work to keep Dick around. So that is just further proof that vote bots were in fact used, for those that doubt it. And who knows if CBS really stopped counting votes after 10 from an IP.
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