http://chimprefuge.com/2009/11/07/dumb-ass-polls/ A variegated compendium of bonobo scat. Wed, 16 May 2012 22:53:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://chimprefuge.com/2009/11/07/dumb-ass-polls/#comment-10423 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:09:00 +0000 http://chimprefuge.com/?p=2662#comment-10423 Over last night, the poll numbers have changed to 37.22% and 62.78%. However, with the current total vote at 10614 results, in order for option 1 to show 0.01% of the pie (assuming they always round down), I think you would only need ceil(10614*0.0001)=2 votes (which we know we have). So it looks like they have programmed the poll software to drop votes to option 1, rather than just putting up a bitmap with results they like. That seems like a bizarrely large amount of work to conduct a fraudulent poll, but I suppose you can’t expect them to do things the smart way.

]]> http://chimprefuge.com/2009/11/07/dumb-ass-polls/#comment-10420 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:23:41 +0000 http://chimprefuge.com/?p=2662#comment-10420 The poll is allegedly up to 8779 votes now — the percentages are, however, exactly the same as the ones quoted, 36.76% and 63.24%, and it doesn’t appear to have counted my vote either. I suppose if I were not completely inured to the supreme dishonesty and incompetence of these of these clowns by now, a completely fake poll would have to push me over the edge. On the bright side, they’ve managed to take sock-puppetry to a whole new, even more despicable level, so I suppose it’s not a complete wash.

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