Post by RaisinGrl on Oct 18, 2004 16:31:35 GMT -5
Before I get to the results, I'd like to clear up a few things. After last weekend's vote there were complaints that some people were using multiple user names to inflate their couple's votes. Over the past week, we have been checking IP's and found it was true. There were multiple postings from members of at least three different couple bases (based on user names, couple voted for & signatures).
Checking IP's is time consuming and, more importantly, not entirely accurate. We have spent hours compiling lists of all the user names with the same IP address. We realize that mistakes can happen. For instance, two posters who were among the first 30 members of the EZ Board Fallin & who rarely agree on anything came up with the same IP even though they voted for different couples. But one IP for 9 user names all voting for the same couple is abuse.
Using multiple user names to inflate your couple's vote has to stop. We will be PMing those members who showed up doing this. If you do not have two or more user names, then please disregard the PM.
Those of you who have been using more than one user name, please only vote for Couple Of The Day/Week using only one user name. If you do not do this, all your user names will be banned.
We will continue to monitor for fraud. Monitoring will involve a time commitment for the moderators. If fraud continues & it takes too much time, we will have to stop doing Couple of the Day.
Now, onto the results:
Winner:
Ryan & Kendall (AMC), 53 votes
Runners-Up:
Todd & Blair (OLTL), 36 votes
Lucy & Dusty (ATWT), 18 votes
Skye & Luke (GH), 14 votes
Michael & Marcie (OLTL), 2 votes
Voting for Monday 10/18 is open!
Checking IP's is time consuming and, more importantly, not entirely accurate. We have spent hours compiling lists of all the user names with the same IP address. We realize that mistakes can happen. For instance, two posters who were among the first 30 members of the EZ Board Fallin & who rarely agree on anything came up with the same IP even though they voted for different couples. But one IP for 9 user names all voting for the same couple is abuse.
Using multiple user names to inflate your couple's vote has to stop. We will be PMing those members who showed up doing this. If you do not have two or more user names, then please disregard the PM.
Those of you who have been using more than one user name, please only vote for Couple Of The Day/Week using only one user name. If you do not do this, all your user names will be banned.
We will continue to monitor for fraud. Monitoring will involve a time commitment for the moderators. If fraud continues & it takes too much time, we will have to stop doing Couple of the Day.
Now, onto the results:
Winner:
Ryan & Kendall (AMC), 53 votes
Runners-Up:
Todd & Blair (OLTL), 36 votes
Lucy & Dusty (ATWT), 18 votes
Skye & Luke (GH), 14 votes
Michael & Marcie (OLTL), 2 votes
Voting for Monday 10/18 is open!