Best design - Moulton



Mike Causer wrote:

> After a bit of experimenting it turns out that it's not necessary to
> delete cookies between votes. All you have to do is refuse cookies from
> www.newdesigners.com right from the start. And then it's
> Vote -> Page Back -> Vote -> Page Back -> Vote -> Page Back ad infinitum.
>
> Voting could also be done by a pretty trivial program, but when the vote
> count gets into the billions they might get somewhat suspicious....


As it is, it's only in the tens of thousands so they'll be blissfully
unaware.

--
Dave...
 
Mike Causer wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 05:32:06 -0700, dkahn400 wrote:
>
> > Keep voting therefore, or those cheating bastards from Apple will steal it
> > from us. :)

>
> Ah, but suppose a little birdy whispers to Newdesigners that this is going
> on, and they can detect which votes came from Macintosh machines by
> looking in their server logs and so discount them?
>
>
> After a bit of experimenting it turns out that it's not necessary to
> delete cookies between votes. All you have to do is refuse cookies from
> www.newdesigners.com right from the start. And then it's
> Vote -> Page Back -> Vote -> Page Back -> Vote -> Page Back ad infinitum.
>
> Voting could also be done by a pretty trivial program, but when the vote
> count gets into the billions they might get somewhat suspicious....


By a strange coincidence since you posted that the Moulton's share of
the vote has risen to 47%.

In the next poll, what has had the greatest influence on civilisation:
mass literacy, the opposable thumb, or the SON dynamo hub? It's a
foregone conclusion.

--
Dave...
 
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:33:17 -0700, dkahn400 wrote:

>> Voting could also be done by a pretty trivial program, but when the vote
>> count gets into the billions they might get somewhat suspicious....

>
> As it is, it's only in the tens of thousands so they'll be blissfully
> unaware.


Where do you see an actual count of votes?


Mike