Archive through October 20, 2000

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Guruchaz

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 03:18 pm Click here to edit this post
Dammit! I have 4 friends who want to signup here and they still haven't received their confirmation emails. Now the polls are closed! This sucks!

This game is going to be boring without Zeb.

Norequerdo

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 03:20 pm Click here to edit this post
strange isn't it Guru. They will probably get their passwords tonight. They can always vote next week.

Guruchaz

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 03:25 pm Click here to edit this post
Yeah...a lot of good that will do. Why do the polls have to close 4 hours before chat?

I didn't think about contacting friends to join on the basis of voting. What a great way to get members. Unfortunately, my friends were joining to save Zeb.

See? This is the reason people shouldn't jump the gun when voting. They should wait until chat day to see how things play out. This sucks.

Norequerdo

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 03:30 pm Click here to edit this post
Agreed, but there is always next week Guru, who knows who will be nominated then.

Max

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 07:38 pm Click here to edit this post
Remember that the moderating is done by volunteers who have jobs and other responsibilities. They can't always get to everything right away. Unfortunately, you need to plan ahead. Unless the salary for being a moderator greatly improves (a handshake is nice, but doesn't pay the phone bill), this won't be changing anytime soon! :)

Whit4you

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 07:42 pm Click here to edit this post
Guru - I think your taking this way to personally - My own sign on took 6 hours, and when my S/O (soon to be F/O hehe - tried to sign on his registration didn't get ok'd for 12 hours - and then he still didn't get to vote on the Tali/ArReal revote - tried not to take it personally....... offered a phone call so's they could confirm that we are two diff people and both know what's going on here - but they never responded to that... we still didn't take that personally sooooo don't worry it's not personal - They actually have to eat/ sleep and bathe I guess????)

Whit

Katie

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 07:47 pm Click here to edit this post
Go to work and earn the money to pay that phone bill so they can do the moderating. Give the moderators a break.

Katie

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 07:49 pm Click here to edit this post
BTW were these friends lurkers and reading all along or just people that you know and were going to come in and vote on a game they had never seen?

Ocean_Islands

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 07:51 pm Click here to edit this post
Guru were those your freaky friends in chat tonight?

Spamgirl

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 07:52 pm Click here to edit this post
Non-members could vote... how do I know that? becuase, without logging in, you could go directly to the banish.html...

Wcv63

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 07:55 pm Click here to edit this post
Just because you could go to the polls spamgirl that doesn't necessarily mean you can vote. But then again, I didn't try it.

Spamgirl

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 07:58 pm Click here to edit this post
You can... because I logged in from another computer and checked the poll... then, to try it out, i voted (for luke and roger, so it didn't affect the vote anyways) and it the totals for luke and rog went up by 1 each... it's not secure

Aroy

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:02 pm Click here to edit this post
I have been lurking for a while. I agree with you SpamGirl, the poll is not secure. I have access to 10 computers at work with different IP addresses. I was able to vote 10X and just logging in once. It is possible.

Spamgirl

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:26 pm Click here to edit this post
Well, that's true too - if you have a dialup, you can keep disconnecting and reconnecting to get a new ip... but that's a VERY hard thing to avoid, and ip tracking is the harshest and most effective way to stop people from cheating... nothing is perfect :)

BUT having people not need to sign up means I could email all my friends and say "Please go vote for him and him" and they could - they wouldn't need a user name... THAT can be remedied, somehow :)

Aroy

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:31 pm Click here to edit this post
Spamgirl, not with the current poll system they use. BTW, I voted 5X all the way around, as I just did this for experimental purposes.
There is a direct url to the polls: http://vote.pollit.com/poppoll?ID=304818
In fact, you can even vote now!

Vasix

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:39 pm Click here to edit this post
Okay Spam and Aroy you two are freaking me out. Does the host know about the stuff you know Aroy? Man, that's not a leak, that's a huge gaping hole.

Spamgirl

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:41 pm Click here to edit this post
You mean it can't be remedied... yes, not with the freebie poll... but with an onsite poll, it could... i'm sure it'd be worth the few hundred $$ because it would be reusable... they might even be able to find a programmer who would do it pro bono (I'd do it but I gave up my programming knowledge to a fellow student... she became one of my contractors and I'd rather she do the work than I :) )

Spamgirl

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:43 pm Click here to edit this post
He probably does, but didn't want it to get out... with the free polls, the ip thing is really as good as it gets... you can't lock them up on a secure site, because they aren't ON your site... the only other method is to have an open message thread where you vote, but then it's visible and there are a lot of posts to go through... it's not easy :)

Tukuul

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:46 pm Click here to edit this post
Guru, whazzzzuuuuup with yourself?

Sorry I'm late dude, but the moderator just activated my membership. Where do I vote?

Kpritch

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:51 pm Click here to edit this post
I went and tried it and I was able to vote once more. Something needs to be done. Now I wonder how many other people knew about this and voted more than allowed? Is there any way to find out how many votes came in using this method? I don't think it was fair to those banished tonight if voting was done this way.

Katie

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:52 pm Click here to edit this post
HI Tukuul

Tukuul

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:54 pm Click here to edit this post
Has everyone gone bonkers with the voting out here by inviting friends to join and so on?

Man, this is totally insane.

Kpritch

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:54 pm Click here to edit this post
Hey Tukuul, I think you were ripped off with the banishment voting process.

Norequerdo

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:54 pm Click here to edit this post
Ok folks, did I or did I not tell you over a week ago that multiple voting was going on.

Spamgirl

Friday, October 20, 2000 - 08:55 pm Click here to edit this post
There's no way to find out anything... and there's really no way around it... we're stuck with what we've got - our options are way limited... unless every paid like $5 to have access to the game - then people would think twice about registering more user names, and then we could put the poll on the site behind a password and user name box... BUT, I don't know ... it would cost a lot to implement...and people don't want to pay