Poll-crashing - Empty Closets - A safe online community for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered people coming out

Wander · 2nd Mar 2009, 08:10 PM

As in, when an online poll is hosted and one group or another encourages people to all vote on one option in order to heavily skew the results.

I stumble across these all the times, the most recent one involved creationism in science classes: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...7000,post.poll

This thread isn't to discuss the issues in the polls themselves, but has anyone else encountered extreme or humorous examples of poll-crashing?

Nodnarb · 2nd Mar 2009, 08:34 PM

In the most recent example from another forum I post on, somebody posted a link to a local newspaper's website and asked people to vote in a poll there(can't remember what it was about). The side we wanted to win was down by about 40 votes. Within 30 minutes, we had a 200 vote lead. Winning meaningless online polls is something we do all the time there. We've never lost

Bunny · 2nd Mar 2009, 11:03 PM

LOL. Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Awards. It was excellent.

We were trying to get Avatar: the Last Airbender to win best animated show or whatever (instead of Spongebob again), and told everyone to vote for it, clear cookies, vote again, etc.

And it worked, and really did deserve to win. D: Unfortunately, they barely even mentioned it. Stupid Spongebob.

2nd Mar 2009, 08:10 PM	#1
Wander Banned Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Parents, aunts, grandma, counselor, online friends Location: Central Alabama Age: 18 Posts: 2,360 Join Date: Jan 2008	Poll-crashing As in, when an online poll is hosted and one group or another encourages people to all vote on one option in order to heavily skew the results. I stumble across these all the times, the most recent one involved creationism in science classes: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...7000,post.poll This thread isn't to discuss the issues in the polls themselves, but has anyone else encountered extreme or humorous examples of poll-crashing?

2nd Mar 2009, 08:34 PM	#2
Nodnarb Notoriously Homosexual Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Most people Location: Ames, Iowa Age: 20 Posts: 3,875 Join Date: Oct 2007	Re: Poll-crashing In the most recent example from another forum I post on, somebody posted a link to a local newspaper's website and asked people to vote in a poll there(can't remember what it was about). The side we wanted to win was down by about 40 votes. Within 30 minutes, we had a 200 vote lead. Winning meaningless online polls is something we do all the time there. We've never lost __________________ Better to be hated for who you are, than be loved for who you're not.

2nd Mar 2009, 11:03 PM	#3
Bunny EC Addict Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Boys <3 Out Status: if they would only ask Location: Canada~ Age: 18 Posts: 430 Join Date: Oct 2008	Re: Poll-crashing LOL. Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Awards. It was excellent. We were trying to get Avatar: the Last Airbender to win best animated show or whatever (instead of Spongebob again), and told everyone to vote for it, clear cookies, vote again, etc. And it worked, and really did deserve to win. D: Unfortunately, they barely even mentioned it. Stupid Spongebob.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Coming Out Poll	confusedkid	Support and Advice	43	2nd Jun 2010 03:08 PM
REAL Religion Survey (With the Poll) [PLEASE READ ORIGINAL POST FIRST]	MeskElil	Chit Chat	27	27th Jun 2008 04:40 PM
CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll finds attitudes on homosexuality evolving	boarder25	Chit Chat	4	29th Jun 2007 08:30 AM
Religion Poll	Proud1p4	Chit Chat	31	31st Aug 2006 04:45 PM
Thread display mode - Poll	Paul_UK	Empty Closets Help and Feedback	6	29th Apr 2006 03:41 AM