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  • Quote from Valent: “Not to discourage you, but those who want to cheat will always find a way to do it . ” But you can make it much more hard to do it, which will discourage the cheaters - which is kinda the point I guess. This contest was turned into a joke, look at the poll results and check it. Even I made a test just for fun and voted 3 times in a row in one of the lowest voted entries using a VPN and an incognito browser, all 3 votes were accepted immediately. If I wanted to spend 24h votin…

  • Quote from JJMonti: “In Physics, when there are several theories that explain experimental data, the simplest theory is usually the correct one ... Why are not "likes" used in the thread itself as a voting system?. Simple, elegant and public. ” And people could actually see the pages in contest to, who knows, maybe vote on the one they think it's best.

  • Quote from Valent: “Board or external, the voting will be always affected by manipulation. Unfortunately this is something that can't be avoided. ” Valent - It can't be avoided, but it can be made harder At least having an email registration, password, email confirmation, etc., are additional steps that may dissuade the easiest cheating. This way, nothing stops a person with 2.000 friends on Facebook to post a link and say "hey, vote option X please". It's just two clicks anyway.

  • I'm honestly struggling on how to start about how bad the choosen voting system is. In an user perspective, all the meritocracy that could exist on the contest is thrown in a dumpster. By putting the voting system in an external page with zero connection to the board, to the alliance pages in contest, to OGame or Gameforge itself, the vast majority of the voters couldn't care less about the pages: they will vote on the option that their friends asked them to do. And whoever has more friends / co…