Gravity Games--A whole article about us "hacking" the poll!

Ha, the gravity games found out we were cheating and they made an article about it. It says this on the homepage:

2 Wheels Still Better Than 1
Last week’s poll got hacked! Find out the shocking truth behind unicycling’s sudden rise in popularity.

Shocking? How is the truth SHOCKING? Isn’t it obvious? But I think it’s funny how WE just “created” that article.

is there a link?

www.gravitygames.com of course!

That’s unbelieveable. They posted my letter, but they never responded to me. You’d think they would let me know they were going to post my letter.

They don’t ride on one wheel, they make their own rules.:smiley:

I’d say your letter saved us Nick. They would have found out anyway that we cheated, with tens of thousands of votes coming from about 50 computers, and your letter expressed that not all unicyclists are fraudulant and cheaters, though I must admit I worked the refresh button on the poll and voted about 50 times.

Maybe, they’ll put unicycling in the gravity games just because your so honest.

Maybe they will put it in because we are ingenious and resourceful.:smiley: I didn’t notice any rules on their poll. :wink:

Nicholas,

It is interesting, but I believe that in cases like this, once you send a letter, the recipient takes it as their own intellectual property. I learned this also the hard way, when I addressed a letter to a specific columnist in my local paper, but found that it appeared in the letters to the editor; it was slightly annoying because I included some personal information in reaction to some comments the writer had made, which I would not have provided if I had known it was going to be published.

I guess it’s caveat author. (I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t be author emptor. :slight_smile: )

And, by the way, yours was a good letter.

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

The gravity games site isn’t working for me! Would someone post the article on this thread, or something? I’m interested in reading it.

I knew that would work! I posted that the site didn’t work for me (which it didn’t), and then it suddenly did! Same hting happened for the Unicycling Gallery.
MURPHY’S LAW STRIKES AGAIN! :smiley: (I think it’s called Murphy’s Law, anyway)

Murphy’s Law is that anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

If there isn’t a law for problems which magically disappear as soon as you’ve complained about them, there definitely should be one.

It’s kind of like Murphy’s Law, then… The problem was fixed right when I asked about someone fixing it.

A commercial web site should know better than to post a poll that is so poorly written that you can vote multiple times just by hitting the browser refresh or by just going back to revisit the poll to see updated results. At a minimum they should write a cookie to keep track of people who have already voted. A cookie won’t prevent people from cheating, but it would make it more difficult than just hitting the browser refresh.

This is in no way an excuse for those who gleefully padded the poll. It is just an observation that their web development team have pathetic coding skills.

I prefer Steve Goodman’s summation of the Law of Averages, which is that “anything will happen that can”.

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got to admit,it was fun.

the fun is still going,on busted spoke.com too.those people Love to argue uni,how can that be bad?

http://www.bustedspoke.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=9497#9497