If it ain’t close, uhh, they can’t cheat?
Anybody surprised at all by this?
Thanks (to) members of the comment section at Daily Kos publishing automated voting code we’ve had to enforce strict IP checking for the polls. I had hoped that people would be able to conduct themselves in a civilized manner, but apparently that was too much to ask. Once the code got into circulation many of the sites nominated for Best Overall Blog got “help” by automated bots designed to continuously vote.
Those sites have been blocked permanently from accessing this site, but there’s no way to stop future attacks short of limiting each IP address to one vote every 24 hours. Unfortunately this will affect AOL users and those behind corporate firewalls. The denizens of Daily Kos have left me no alternative.
How perfectly typical of the election-stealing crybabies. Kevin is nice enough to put a lot of work into doing something to help some lesser-known blogs get a bit more exposure; in my opinion it’s not something that anybody should be taking seriously enough to try to win through Democrat-style voting fraud, but all these losers can think to do is game the system and ruin the fun for everybody with their cheating.
You gotta watch these crooked Democrat punks every minute or they’ll have their hands in any cookie jar they can reach. I’ve been saying it for years.
Update! Almost forgot — don’t cheat, but vote for me!
Updated update! More from the Rocket Man:
This is sickening, but typical. Kevin Aylward of Wizbang goes to a lot of trouble to set up a competition that is intended to recognize as many blogs as possible and introduce people to blogs they don’t already know. It’s done in a spirit of fun, and relies on a modicum of good faith among the participants. But liberals don’t seem to be able to do anything honestly, to follow the most minimal standards of sportsmanship, or to do anything in a spirit of good will and good humor. Since Kevin hasn’t designed the competition using national security-level safeguards against cheating, the liberals think it’s OK to ruin the contest for everyone else by writing code that racks up thousands of fictitious votes for “their” blogs. Not only do they see nothing wrong with this, they brag about it openly.
I got to know Kevin during the Republican convention. He’s a good guy and I know that he takes a lot of pride in the Weblog awards, and invests a lot of work in setting them up. Now he’s been put in an impossible situation where he must either disqualify the liberal blogs en masse for cheating, or let them ruin the contest. Is this a big deal? No, but that’s sort of the point. The liberals’ instinct to cheat is so strong that they can’t even participate in a fun little contest without trying to spoil it for everyone else. That’s sad, but, as I said, it’s also typical.
Yes indeedy. Disqualify the childish little twerps, I say. If you can’t play fair, you can’t play; seems simple enough to me.
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