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Skin Poll sabotaged

Written by DMAN, on 18-07-2006

Unfortunately someone who has been traced back to the Austrian School Network decided to create close to 50 forum accounts and sabotaged our 4:3 skin poll.

This is very dissapointing and we are taking the matter as far as we can go.

So as a result the poll has been suspended and more than likely will not continue. I'll make a decision come Friday with what we are going to do.

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Posted by mirk, on 18-07-2006, , Guest

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Only one thing to say...bad style.

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Posted by Paranoid Delusion, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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Sooo SAD

Boredom is a unnecessary thing, obviously nothing better to do.

Ray

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Posted by marshall, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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This is really a shame. When will people realize they can get more credibility by picking something on the feature request list and programming it than doing something stupid and destructive like this?

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Posted by Morder, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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why not just discount all votes with the same dns lookup?

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Posted by sunsetdk, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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Some people simply just need to get a life. That's all i have to say.

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Posted by Henk, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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Too bad people don't seem to understand that this is the way to discourage the people who working so hard (only for ourselves!) to make MediaPortal as good as it can. And all for free.
I pity the pepole who sabotaged this poll.

Programmers: keep up the good work! Thanks for all the efforts.

Btw: I never saw the 3DMP-skin before but: wow, it's amazing! MCE is fine too...!

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Posted by Peval, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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What a shame! I was really loving this poll because I think this is the good way to get people involved and make MediaPortal better and better. As far as i can see the result was a head to head with BlueTwo and 3DMP so I hope you can isolate the false votes and choose the skin by the regular votes.

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Posted by Jochen, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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the bad thing about that is that for next decisions the users wont be asked anymore. At least I wouldnt do so.

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Posted by Maedhros, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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Well... what can you say? KIDS! hrmpf...

It's commonly said that clever people are never bored... go do the math kids :P

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Posted by NorthernJohn, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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Strkes me as very bad form to hit an open source project. Very bad form indeed.

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Posted by dipswitch, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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the kid needs a good o'l spanking, contact his parents ;-)

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Posted by NLS, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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I don't think this incident should change anything in the future voting process.

It was a good start. If you stop now, a few immature a**holes will "win".

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Posted by hoppy, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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This is very poor form :) Out of interest, which skin was he or she voting for?

I agree that we shouldn't stop the voting process...

This person obviously had more time than sence!

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Posted by bunker12, on 19-07-2006, , Guest

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I agree the poll should go on. You shouldn't let one bad person stop the project from reaching the goals it sets up. Just block the ip or subnet, report it and move on with the poll.

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Posted by Guytpetj, on 20-07-2006, , Guest

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Don't let them win by closing the voting. Let's ignore this persons votes and keep the default skin vote open for us, the serious MP fans.

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Posted by Alex, on 20-07-2006, , Guest

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To all the contributors: Keep up the good work and don't let these kiddies ruin your awesome work!

Thank you for all your effort! MP is da bomb!!!

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Posted by dman_LFC, on 20-07-2006, , Guest

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The poll will be restarted.

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Posted by TheVideoViking, on 22-07-2006, , Guest

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50 accounts ha... Someone needs to get himself a girlfriend.

Keep making those lovely skins. Most people really appriciate it.

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Posted by ThunderX, on 25-07-2006, , Guest

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austrian kids are in holiday, this was a sysadmin....

greetx

Thunderx

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Posted by scarecrow-rye, on 26-07-2006, , Guest

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If the votes came from the Austrian School Network, what discounts the possiblily that 50 kids, each creating their own account, could simply be using the same shared computer or network? Just curious. :)

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Posted by admin, on 26-07-2006, , Guest

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not really, 50 school kids in a row within minutes using fake nicks, the same spam-mail sender and all voting for b2 isnt that belivable ;)
We have only one guy using that IP so were pretty sure to know who it was and keep an eye on him. No ban this time cause theres always a small risk of beeing wrong.

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Posted by arachnotron, on 26-07-2006, , Guest

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On some forum's (fora?) a new member has to wait for 5 days before being allowed to post anything. Maybe something like that would help? It also helps with the amount of spam.

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