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Philamom

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 08:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I did my part -- I just spent about 1/2 hour casting votes (giving Ali a "1" each time). But it didn't seem to make a bit of difference. I think someone is playing with both Ali and Dave's numbers. But I did see Jack's number go up .1, from 6.9 to 7.0. That was the only change I saw.

Funnyfarm

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 09:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ali is now at 8.2. What a quick rise!! Wonder how much that cost her daddy????

Jagger

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 10:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I did my part also, I took the day off of work yesterday and sat in front of the computer giving Ali "10" and Jack and Erika "1"

Chiparock

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 10:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFL Jagger! I admire those who have their priorities straight!

Spunky

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 12:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think that sharp increase for Ali was right after Dana was evicted, maybe people were cheering her for being the one who caused Dana's eviction.

But you noticed that she's in decline now..

Maryk

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 02:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't believe Alison is that popular! I'm going to repeat vote her a rating of 1. I would give her a negative score if it was available.

Jpgramma

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 07:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've watched Alison's popularity percentage go from a 7.5 to a 7.7 in the last hour and a half. Given how many votes it would take to affect a 2 tenths of a % rise in that amount of time, I'd say the Alison hacker is at it again.

I think I'll just spend a while over there cramming a bunch of 1's her way. A tiny drop in the bucket, but at least I'll know I tried.

Carrie92

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 11:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
don't forget to delete your cookies in between votes! Just thought I'd add that, it's been awhile since someone said it - in case someone doesn't read the whole thread.

Gina8642

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 11:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
If you have to delete you cookies every time, does that mean CBS only lets a person vote once all season if you don't delete?

Jarryjayo

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 01:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
it's up to CBS, if they watch IP address's they could set it up so only once vote per same IP address per day. On most websites thats how it works.

R151996

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 02:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have never believed any hackers have been at work voting for or against any player. Ali's numbers never been consistently above 8 until this week, and now she's tied for third with Jack at 8.1. A hacker voting 10's should have been able to get any player's figure into the high 8's or low 9's.

Seamonkey

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There could be duelling hacker programs.. some voting 10, some voting 1?

Crazydog

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 02:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Duelling hackers. LOL! I get the image of two computer geeks hunched over their keyboards furiously writing newer and better script programs to cast votes. Like those bars where they have the duelling piano players.

Draheid

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 04:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I hate to say this again but I really think CBS is actually only counting the total number of votes and disregarding the value given each vote. So every single vote, be it a 1 or a 10, increases that HGs popularity compared to the others.

Fan3

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 07:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
for anyone who cares they now have ali tied with Erica for 1st place. enough to make one sick.

Coffee

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 08:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How many time did Ali's parent's vote?

Rainwoman

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 08:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
lmao coffee!

Caycaye

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 09:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I KNOW for a FACT how easy it is for a hacker to inflate Ali's numbers on CBS polls. My son runs our cable TV internet provider department and he used to be a full-blown trouble-making hacker until he became an upstanding citizen (LOL)...and he said it is quite easy. He explained to me how..but, of course, I have no idea what he was talking about....But suffise it to say...that anyone Ali is related to, if they are as unethical and back-stabbing, and OBSESSED with winning for winnings sake....like Ali is..they CERTAINLY would hack her popularity poll...cause from the beginning she was VERY low for weeks and all of a sudden she goes up and down...Last WEEK when I went to vote...Ali was at 1.5 can you believe that??? And now 8.5...NO WAY is that on the up and up.

Seamonkey

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 09:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I got into a duel once.. or my cat did.

I put her up for Pet of the month for Orange County and she won, got a bunch of people to put in votes.

So anyway at the end of the year the the monthly winners competed for pet of the year.

So, again Critter had lots of internet friends voting for her.. all over the world.. Critter was in first but then this lovely golden retriever went ahead.. grrrr.

The site specifically said to vote as often as you wanted.. we figured out that you could vote 20 times and then you couldn't vote again for an hour. Unless you cleared cookies.

So one of my really techhie friends started writing up scripts first we went to linux browser and eliminated the display time and so on.. you still had to sit and push buttons but it would put in twenty votes then clear cookies.

We went ahead.

The golden retriever people stepped up tho, and surged ahead and stayed there.. So we knew they had brought in their hackers :)

Between Bill in Boston and Verity in Canberra they refined the sucker so you just started it off..

We had vote machines running in Australia, Norway, Canada, US and more and surged ahead over the finish line. Actually just a few of us ran the prog..

Critter ended up with 75000 votes to the Golden retriever's 50,000.. both way ahead..

Didn't consider it hacking because the site plainly said the more votes put in the merrier.. I suspect they were thrilled with all the hits.

Now I must confess that during the pet of the month part I did put in some votes for a really cute SNAKE which was actually wearing a tiny tyrolian hat!!

But the CBS site.. most of their stuff is so behind.. They still have Robert to win on one chart.

Caycaye

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 09:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oooooo...Seamonkey...you are soooo bad.....LOL

Wendo

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 09:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hahaha, most excellent Seamonkey.

This one time, at band camp........

I'll be honest, I vote for Ali everyday at the CBS site. (I'm not a hacker though. Just a graphic designer, not a programmer.)

Caycaye

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 09:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
SHUCKS Wendo....I KNEW someone was cancelling out my votes!!!! LMAO

Wendo

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 09:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, duh! Caycaye.

Eeyoreslament

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 10:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I love that story Seamonkey!! What would make it even better is if the prize was for something really small and trivial, like a new collar, or even just bragging rights!!

I wish I knew hackers. I'd do bad things, that weren't too offensive. :-)

R151996

Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 11:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw Ali at 1.5 too--on Wednesday less than an hour after all totals were reset to zero to start the new voting week. Later that day the totals had levelled out for all HGs and Ali was back in the mid-7 range.

You can vote for Robert to win but Ali and Jun are 1-2 in that poll. Jun closed the gap there from Ali 66%-Jun 31% to Ali 65%-Jun 32% since this afternoon. Of the last 1020 votes cast the totals have been roughly Jun--514 Ali--476 Robert--30 (based on the posted percentages).

Fan3

Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 12:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well Daddy's money has done it she is now more popular than erica. I think CBS is really trying to make her look good. Did anyone else notice they keep saying "crown" the winner? I don't remmber this from previous seasons.

Bondmaiden

Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 02:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah yes. we are suppose to believe that Ali's father(small town divorce lawyer) has enough money and power to bride CBS to alter the BB voting site on their own offical web page. That's some kind of money. I bet CBS never saw that kind of money before and just couldn't help themselves. lmao

Fan3

Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 02:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
okay so CBS is doing it on their own....someone is fixing it. if when up slowly I would believe that is real but to jump so much come on.... oh well to each his own thoughts. Seems the little girls are thru bitc@@@g and going to sleep. Hope BB wakes them up at 9am

Bondmaiden

Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 02:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good night. Sweet dreams.....er.... I guess.

Jpgramma

Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 08:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
grrrrrrrrrrrrr

So, let's form an army to combat the program that Daddy's money has paid for. Don't give up yet! (and I'm not convinced about the need to erase your cookies in between each vote)..

It's a travesty, given the undeniable opinion of Alison among the internet BB sites, that she should exit the house and see that poll and feel validated for her actions and methods.

I reapeat : VOTE 1 for Alison, and vote OFTEN!

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother4/polls/index.shtml#

(cut and paste URL. I can't seem to get it formatted properly to create it as a link and the formatting section of the HELP area seems to have locked its doors)

Cassie

Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 08:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Gramma, she need only go and read the emails on the Alison Irwin blog site to see what people think of her. I took a look, thinking I would find her pageant pics, but all I found were some pretty disgusted emailers. She would have to be pretty deluded to believe that CBS "poll".

Jbfrommi

Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 08:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Jpgramma, I just went and voted her a 1 but I also voted all of the other hgs a 10 including Scott lol. Make sure you clear your cookies between voting.

Mlt

Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 09:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I used to go to the CBS poll once a day and cast one vote for every houseguest. I figured that was fair since my opinion about them tended to change on a daily basis. Now I don't bother voting since it is obvious that the poll doesn't really reflect anything except someone's ability to play with the results.