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Old Mar 17, 2006 | 11:03 am
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Old Mar 17, 2006 | 12:13 pm
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Old Mar 17, 2006 | 1:37 pm
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Another five.
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Old Mar 17, 2006 | 3:56 pm
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Old Mar 17, 2006 | 4:54 pm
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How did he do in last year's competition, goodo? Did FTers' votes carry him to victory?
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Old Mar 17, 2006 | 5:05 pm
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Looks like Daddy dressed him.
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Old Mar 18, 2006 | 10:23 am
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Old Mar 18, 2006 | 3:07 pm
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Gave him a chai five.
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Old Mar 18, 2006 | 3:55 pm
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Another 5 - but I dont think the computer can add - he is at 3.95
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Old Mar 18, 2006 | 5:40 pm
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Thanks for all the votes! Up until about 12 hours ago, he was winning, and not only winning he was way out front. But now he's gone down quite a bit and is coming 2nd. It must be some weird voting system the website uses. Give all the votes that he has received, it seems his score starts to drop when all the votes slow down, as I don't think we've had many people voting him low. The comp is supposed to end Tuesday, so lets see if we can keep him up there.

SanDiego1K: The same thing happened las year. He was winning, but towards the end he crashed a bit, and ended up with a consolation prize.

Efrem: Yes this is Pookey!

thanks all,
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 1:45 am
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I keep clearing my cache and voting him #1! I don't know why he's going down...
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 1:55 am
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Was there supposed to be a there? Voting 1 is the lowest. lol. If only crossposting was allowed, could get more votes.

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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 2:27 am
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Originally Posted by goodo
Was there supposed to be a there? Voting 1 is the lowest. lol. If only crossposting was allowed, could get more votes.

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Well, it was implied.

Someone is probably running a script. Pretty easy to do, if you have a little knowledge. Voting against someone is often easier than voting for your candidate.
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 3:01 am
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I was going to spread some #1 votes around to the competition , but then I noticed there were 337 contestants so far!
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 3:02 am
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Originally Posted by goodo
Thanks for all the votes! Up until about 12 hours ago, he was winning, and not only winning he was way out front. But now he's gone down quite a bit and is coming 2nd. It must be some weird voting system the website uses. Give all the votes that he has received, it seems his score starts to drop when all the votes slow down, as I don't think we've had many people voting him low. The comp is supposed to end Tuesday, so lets see if we can keep him up there.

SanDiego1K: The same thing happened las year. He was winning, but towards the end he crashed a bit, and ended up with a consolation prize.

Efrem: Yes this is Pookey!

thanks all,
goodo
They might also have a cheating filter. It would be pretty easy to eliminate multiple votes from the same referring webpage (flyertalk) sent directly to a contestant's page, but it might be done only once a day which would explain the sudden drops.

You might need to mix it up a little and have people key in the address.
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