Thread:Asnow89/@comment-26686600-20150902201811/@comment-4106881-20150903014437

Faceted Chrysolite wrote: Despite continued claims of cheating, I have seen no unusual activity. With other rounds, vote count would jump ludicrous amounts in a short time and occasionally thirty votes were made per refresh. I am satisfied with the new poll system and hope it will be used next year. Various people below seem to think the time of the polls closing was unfair. Contrary to what they claim, Mabel Juice numbers were climbing slowly but steadily while few new votes were made for the other thing. Mabel Juice had been ahead for at least half an hour intermittently before closing. An extension made perfect sense at this time of near-equality. I hope you are not troubled by these allegations which do not represent the views of most participants. Thank you. It was badly managed though, what's the point of having a competition like this if there are no finish set times? I trust that it was a mistake, but they could have picked the winner aswell.

The new poll software is not much better, sure is better than the last one but a simple captcha is not going to stop the bot cheating. Please look for a better software for next year.

Also, all (or almost all) the other polls lasted a week, why did this get to last a week and 46 minutes? Those 46 minutes is what gave them the chance to win since they only had more votes over Greedy Milk in the last half hour before it finished.

I think that people getting angry is completely justified and reasonable even though most are just insults. Doing nothing about the mistakes made doesn't help.