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Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: March 20, 2009
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Time cheats on Time 100 vote to avoid giving the prize to 4chan’s Moot


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When the result isn’t going the way you want it to, there’s only one thing to do: cheat. And that’s what Time Magazine has done in the voting for 2009′s Time 100.

As we reported yesterday, Moot, the founder and owner of 4chan was topping the list with 275,000 votes with an average score of 75/100. Today Moot has 280,000 votes with an average score of 53/100 and is in 3rd place…but not before going lower, as the pic above that is currently doing the rounds demonstrates. The likelihood of Moot obtaining 5,000 additional votes in 24 hours and droping that much rank, while at the same time Jon Stewart doubled his total votes is impossible. Note also that the places are ranked by score, not total votes, but how you’d drop down that number out of 100 with 5000 votes from 280,000 is again impossible. Moot has been hobbled.











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14 Archived Responses to “ Time cheats on Time 100 vote to avoid giving the prize to 4chan’s Moot ”

  1. Anonymous
    Mar 20, 2009

    BUMP

  2. Kyle Brady
    Mar 20, 2009

    Did you really expect TIME to be open about this process, let alone fair?

    They're proving, alongside NASA and a host of other companies, that when they invite interaction with their customer-/fanbase, they're doing it only for their own promotional purposes, and really don't give a shit what you have to say or how valid your point may be, evidenced by finding loopholes (NASA) or database record removal (TIME).

    Fuckers.

    –Kyle

  3. Ryan
    Mar 20, 2009

    They probably subtracted the total of votes from users who had just created an account during a certain time frame, and voted only for moot and didn't bother to provide any input for any of the other candidates. They don't buy Time or provide quality feedback for Time anyway, so… why would they cater to 4chan users… at all?

  4. Mister X
    Mar 21, 2009

    They removed the votes because all of 4chan is running bots to autovote Moot for 100 points and everyone else for 1 point.

  5. NekoTerreh
    Mar 21, 2009

    If a ton of people are going through the effort of auto-voting for moot to win and automatically down-voting everyone else, wouldn't that make him influential in the sense that people are driven to the extent if using whatever means to get him to win?

  6. Anonymous
    Mar 22, 2009

    You missed the fact that moot went from over a million votes down to under 300k. They threw out a bunch of votes.

  7. /b/
    Mar 23, 2009

    does anyone on 4chan do anything constructive with their life or do they all still live with their parents and jack off to the sci fi channel? these socially inept cave dwellers are annoyances and ruin the internet. theyre just pathetic losers in real life get to act “tough” as faceless handles.

  8. derp
    Mar 25, 2009

    >4chan
    >do anything constructive with their life

    laughingelfman.jpg

  9. Person
    Mar 26, 2009

    I completely think that if so many people are going to the efforts to vote so much for him

    WITHOUT HIM EVEN ASKING OR POSSIBLY BEING AWARE

    that makes him definitely the most influential.

    If national leaders or celebrities can't generate CLOSE to the same response, it's obvious.

  10. for-great-justice
    Mar 26, 2009

    It's a damned shame. Honestly. If people believe that he should win that badly, TIME shouldn't be rigging votes.

  11. CP
    Mar 26, 2009

    Hey, 4chan has enemy chans.
    Long story short, TIME has placed itself in the crossfire.

  12. aery
    Mar 26, 2009

    So? 4chan is stupid anyway…

  13. me
    Apr 3, 2010

    they erased moot from the voting…herp derp


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