Easy to cheat on banner contest??

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Animal4890
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Easy to cheat on banner contest??

Post by Animal4890 » Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:50 pm

Lately, I've seen many banners that have won in the banner contest that I thought weren't even close to the quality necessary to even get close to winning. I then thought to myself that it would be possible for some people to get all of their friends to vote for their banner. However, wouldn't it just be easier to create 90 fake accounts? What safegaurds are in place that would deny this from happening?

I searched a bit before posting this thread thinking that someone may have already posted it, but I didn't find one. However, I did find one that was slightly similar here:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... ite+banner

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Post by Arigatomina » Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:34 am

I don't know. Someone who'd make 90 accounts just to get a banner through probably deserves to have his up there. o.O

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Post by Seijin_Dinger » Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:43 am

Honestly if someone did that they need to really take a break and get a life
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Post by Kalium » Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:09 am

seijin_dinger wrote:Honestly if someone did that they need to really take a break and get a life
You do realise that most of the mundane world would say that about anyone who would make an AMV, right?

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Post by Arigatomina » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:54 pm

Kalium wrote:You do realise that most of the mundane world would say that about anyone who would make an AMV, right?
Heh, that was my thought - I mean, if they spend so much time just to see their banner on this site...more power to them. It's obviously more important than anything else they could be spending their time on.

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Re: Easy to cheat on banner contest??

Post by derobert » Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:24 pm

Animal4890 wrote:However, wouldn't it just be easier to create 90 fake accounts? What safegaurds are in place that would deny this from happening?
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