Friday, 25 January 2013

Closing the uniform poll prematurely because of manipulation

Dear readers,

sadly I have to inform you that I had to close my school uniform poll prematurely because someone has been manipulating it over the last few days, possibly even right from the start.

The MisterPoll website lets me - as poll creator - see more detailed poll results. I can view not only the overall results but also what each single voter has selected. There's an uncanny accumulation of identical or almost-identical votes which have been repeatedly submitted in quick succession (over the course of just a couple of minutes each).

The intention of the poll was to assemble my new school uniform by the "hive mind", to let others select my uniform for me because a real schoolgirl couldn't select her own uniform as well. Now while this is mostly still the case even though someone has voted several times, it clearly undermines the votes of others, giving one person an unjustifiable advantage, and manipulates the "hive mind's" intentions.

I will deliberate over the weekend whether I will simply buy the uniform items that I like, or whether to try and "clean up" the poll results, discarding obvious forged entries.

I'm sad that one person tried to spoil the fun not only for me but probably also for at least some of the other voters. I'm sure there were some doms/teachers among them who took pleasure in selecting my uniform items but whose vote is negligible thanks to the manipulations.

And to the manipulator ... I'm pretty sure I know who you are. And I'm really angry because I told you to stop but instead you even increased the manipulations. Shame on you.

- Cornelia

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