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Reputation:98
Level:Superstar
Since:Jul 13, 2007
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Yeah....for some reason I find that hard to believe. The polls on the home screen of CBS don't recieve that many votes. Why is everyone cheating? It take the fun out of the competition.
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Reputation:98
Level:Superstar
Since:Sep 1, 2006
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its redskin fans can't stand losing. they do too much of that during the regular season!!!!!! we ravens fans get the support of the cowboys just because they hate the skins so much!!! its great!!!!
go POE!!!
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Level:Amateur
Since:Jul 5, 2008
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i find weird that poe is in the finals but then again it is a baltimore station
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Level:Amateur
Since:Jul 5, 2008
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Both sides are using scripts. It's pointless to even keep going at this point. The way the poll is set up makes it extremely easy to check the current results then vote accordingly. I'm guessing someone for the Ravens has a script that checks to make sure they are at 52% (or some other number around there) and will keep voting until it exceeds that threshold. On the Redskins side they are doing the same thing, but it's an arms war. The more the Redskins scrips vote just causes the Ravens script to vote more, which is why the poll has stayed at 48% and 52% for what I can tell the past million or so votes.
Requiring simple CAPTCHA when voting would stop all this nonsense. But then again it's really just a mascot competition so in the end none of this really matters.
To test my theroy I came up with this, which works, but I'm not running it. And yes I'm a big loser for even spending the 45min I did on this this morning.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Cache::FileCache;
use POSIX qw(ceil floor);
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $cache = Cache::FileCache-> new({namespace=> 'cbspoll'});
my $goal = 0;
my $who_vote = 'Poe';
#my $who_vote = 'Cheif Zee';
my $rotate = 0;
while ($goal < 52 ) {
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize-> new(
agent => q[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0],
);
$mech-> add_header( Referer => 'http://www.sportsline.com/spin/
story/10883643');
my $rnd_number = floor(time);
print $rnd_number . "\n";
$mech-> timeout(10);
# $mech-> get('http://www.sportsline.com/spin/
story/10883643');
$mech-> get('http://www.sportsline.com/poll_
submit?answer=' . $who_vote . '&pollname=round5wasvbal&domain=.sportsline.com&poll_arena=spin&poll_name_override=round5wasvba
l&poll_style=on&poll_width=150&poll_min_content_height=212&poll_ceid=2005&s=' . $rnd_number);
my $output = $mech-> content;
if ($output =~ /<tr> <td width=\"30\" class=\"pollPercent\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"> \ \;\ (\d\d)\% <\/td> <td class=\"pollResponce\"> Chief Zee<\/td> <\/tr> /) {
$goal = $1;
print "Goal: $goal\n";
my $total = $cache-> get('total_votes');
$total++;
$cache-> set('total_votes',$total);
print "Total Votes: $total\n";
my $sleep = ceil(rand(30));
sleep($sleep);
} else {
#Was not able to vote
}
}
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Reputation:97
Level:Superstar
Since:Jan 6, 2007
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Also, people are probably getting people to vote who wouldn't normally visit the site. I don't know if you would count that as cheating..
GO POE!
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Level:Amateur
Since:Jul 5, 2008
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poe is just a giant purple turkey GO SKINS
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Reputation:85
Level:All-Star
Since:Nov 7, 2006
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Yep, it's a bunch of B.S. I'm fine w/someone voting on multiple computers, but this voting using scripts like this is total BS and a total fraud.
I hope CBS nukes this and uses some intelligence if they ever decide to do some voting again...oh, I don't know...make people REGISTER and only one vote per registered user...and even adding the "please type this code into the field below" stuff that every other site uses...
Way to allow something like this to be ruined CBS...way to go. And don't try telling me people weren't cheating, I woke up this mroning and the vote were just shy of/just passed 3 mil and now it's ov | |
