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I had heard about the most recent incident of poll-fixing
Apparently, budgettravel.com is accepting nominations and votes on places every kid should see before they're grown, and the Creation Museum folks were telling people to upvote their little "museum". So far so normal, but what brings this out into Lulzville is that apparently they got all in a snit when other people used those same exact tactics!
Which is where I got interested, because cheaters shouldn't prosper, especially when they're raging hypocrites.
So, here's the rules:
1. You can vote on as many attractions as you like.
2. You can vote once every 24 hours.
3. Some attractions are listed twice. It's not clear whether or not the results will be merged together in the end. You may as well vote twice.
4. In the end, the votes mean nothing, as budgettravel.com has freely admitted (on the same page!) that they'll disregard them if the top 5 are all lumped together in the same area, or if they find a few cool places on their own. So it doesn't matter if you vote for the Biggest Ball of Twine. Nobody actually cares! Just so long as you help bump the creation museum down. It's about the principle of the thing.
5. Lots of people have nominated and voted for previous winners. They're not actually in the running, but like I said - in the end, it doesn't matter.
Which is where I got interested, because cheaters shouldn't prosper, especially when they're raging hypocrites.
So, here's the rules:
1. You can vote on as many attractions as you like.
2. You can vote once every 24 hours.
3. Some attractions are listed twice. It's not clear whether or not the results will be merged together in the end. You may as well vote twice.
4. In the end, the votes mean nothing, as budgettravel.com has freely admitted (on the same page!) that they'll disregard them if the top 5 are all lumped together in the same area, or if they find a few cool places on their own. So it doesn't matter if you vote for the Biggest Ball of Twine. Nobody actually cares! Just so long as you help bump the creation museum down. It's about the principle of the thing.
5. Lots of people have nominated and voted for previous winners. They're not actually in the running, but like I said - in the end, it doesn't matter.
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"Flying Spaghetti Monster Museum, WA"
No, really. Complete with free pasta samples, apparently. Next time I'm on the appropriate continent, I'm going to have to visit that.
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Fun