Vote for Firefly (We will give up our 'verse when you delete it from our cold dead video systems)! XXV
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 2, 2010 13:01
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Something strange going on out there. There is some individual, or group, who is going around, using an automated voting program, to put Firefly and Serenity into last place in polls. Happened at the Stargate site, and Moviespeople. It's happening right now at the BBC site.
Whoever this is, they are not omnipotent. On the late TVTally site, they were consistently beaten at their own game by a Browncoat operated automated voting program. That Browncoat showed up for a while at Stargate last year, but then left, and has not returned. The Browncoat automated voting program has not shown up anywhere else since TVTally disappeared.
At the BBC site, the automated voting program showed up for a bit last Summer, but did not knock us out of first place. They returned a few weeks ago, knocked us out of first place, then started running Blade Runner's score then, a week ago, stopped. We always have a few people voting their every day, and we began to gain ground again. But then the automated voting program returned a few days ago, but putting out only 200-300 votes a day (instead of 2-3k a day a few weeks ago.
I have no idea who we offended, or who our champion (with the automated voting program) is.
Anyone got anymore info on this weirdness?
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I can confirm your words. Two of mentioned sites are mine. You are absolutely right. Someone use a voting bot. Some days i got more votes than visitors and system was set for 1/day vote.
I am sci fi fan, i really love Firefly and Serenity but this is no way how to behave. Polls are meanless in this case and no admins nor visitors are stupid.
Problem is how to stop these bots. When i blacklisted spamming url, author changed it and everything started again and again... The only option how to prevent this cheating is removing Serenity from polls.
I just want to tell: Browncoats are fighters not scammers... pls act this way!
I guess this voter thinks he is supporting the Firefly case but he will reach the opposite result. People will start to hate Firefly from the time Firefly fan = cheater...
Think about, maybe is time to say SORRY and start from beginning...
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BBC 29.07 now 2.11%. THough we are still behind the Bot VOters we are mighty!
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Dead thread??
BBC Vote:
Serenity 29.13%
Star Wars 32.92%
Blade Runner 30.71%
Planet of the Apes 1.17%
The Matrix 6.06%
66877 Votes Cast
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The BotMonster (tm) has been staying away from BBC, but came back today and gave Matrix some votes. But we are still slowly regaining our position.
It appears there are 3-4 Browncoats voting daily for us at the BBC site.
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Quick update. Over at BBC (newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6517155.stm), January voting there were 144 for Serenity (indicating about 9 Browncoats coming by regularly), five for Star Wars, 2,474, for Blade Runner (apparently a voting bot), 0 for Planet of the Apes and 6,250 for The Matrix (the bot again).
Over at Moviepeople, Serenity got 57 votes (indicating 2-3 Browncoats), Firefly got 54. At the Stargate site, Firefly got 64 votes.
There are a few of us still fighting the good fight against the evil bots.
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What has become a monthly update of our continuing woes at the hands (tentacles) of the voting machine.
Over at BBC (newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6517155.stm), January voting there were 125 for Serenity (indicating at least half a dozen Browncoats coming by regularly), seven votes for Star Wars, four for Blade Runner , 10,538 for Planet of the Apes (apparently a voting bot)and 11,071 for The Matrix (the bot again). We are not in last place yet. The bot has got the Apes to 11.93 percent, while we are at 20.69. Since last December, total votes have gone from 44,853 to 94,896.
Over at Moviepeople, Serenity got 44 votes (indicating 2-3 Browncoats), Firefly got 43. At the Stargate site, Firefly got 56 votes.
There are a few of us still fighting the good fight against the evil bots. A few more regular voters would make a big difference. Apparently the voting bot is one person, and if that wuss goes away, we can repair a lot of the damage over time.
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Another monthly update of our continuing woes at the hands (tentacles) of the voting machine.
Over at BBC (newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6517155.stm), January voting there were 131 for Serenity (indicating at least half a dozen Browncoats coming by regularly), 3,305 (apparently a voting bot)votes for Star Wars, 3,280 (the bot again)for Blade Runner , 11,745 (the bot again) for Planet of the Apes (the bot again)and 3,318 for The Matrix (the bot again). We are in last place. Since last December, total votes have gone from 44,853 to 116,674.
Over at Moviepeople, Serenity got 41 votes (indicating 2-3 Browncoats), Firefly got 38. More votes than anyone else. At the Stargate site, Firefly got 44 votes. More votes than anyone else.
There are a few of us still fighting the good fight against the evil bots. A few more regular voters would make a big difference. Apparently the voting bot is one person, and if that wuss goes away, we can repair a lot of the damage over time.
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Another monthly update of our continuing woes at the hands (tentacles) of the voting machine.
Over at BBC (newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6517155.stm), April voting there was only 17 for Serenity (mainly because a week or so ago BBC finally halted the voting after three years. The voting machine guy had halted voting here in late March. However, there were as many votes for Planet of the Apes as for Serenity last month. Go figure.), 0 votes for Star Wars, 6 for Blade Runner , 17 for Planet of the Apes and 6 for The Matrix . We are in last place. Since last December, total votes have gone from 44,853 to 116,704.
Over at Moviepeople, Serenity got 38 votes (indicating 2-3 Browncoats), Firefly got 37. More votes than anyone else. At the Stargate site, Firefly got 56 votes. More votes than anyone else.
There are a few of us still fighting the good fight against the evil bots. A few more regular voters would make a big difference. Apparently the voting bot is one person, and if that wuss goes away, we can repair a lot of the damage over time.
And show that Browncoats still exist.
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Another monthly update of our continuing woes at the hands (tentacles) of the voting machine.
Over at the coolest starship vote ( http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2008/05/coolest-starship-tournament/), we have been trashed by the Millennium Falcon (which then loses to the Enterprise.) I suspect sorcery.
Over at BBC (newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6517155.stm), May voting there was zero for Serenity, mainly because last month BBC finally halted the voting after three years. The voting machine guy had halted voting here in late March. We are frozen in last place. Since last December, total votes have gone from 44,853 to 116,704.
Over at Moviepeople, Serenity got 19 votes, Firefly got 18. More votes than anyone else. At the Stargate site, Firefly got 27 votes. More votes than anyone else.
There are a few of us still fighting the good fight against the evil bots. A few more regular voters would make a big difference. Apparently the voting bot is one person, and if that wuss goes away, we can repair a lot of the damage over time.
And show that Browncoats still exist.
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