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Lasher · 10-27-2009, 04:45 PM

Generally speaking, I agree with everything that has been said so far. I usually quietly deal with these things, communicate with the MUD in question, make a decision.

I posted because:

A) There was a definite implication in this thread that 'nobody cares'. Same in some PMs and Emails received based on this thread and voting in general.

B) This wasn't a mud that suddenly started to see votes increase due to a malicious player. It came out of nowhere, got listed, ranked in the top 5 almost constantly with <20 players online. The ratio of proxy votes was so high that if you take them out of the equation Avalon would barely be in rankings at all, so same net effect.

I probably shouldn't have posted, but I did. Moving forward, quietly dropping these of course makes the most sense, which was actually happening at one point but stopped working. I also completely overlooked TOR in the original setup - the proxy list service I was using did not cover TOR anyway.

10-27-2009, 04:45 PM	#71
Lasher Administrator Join Date: May 2005 Name: Derek Location: Orlando Posts: 357	Re: Lets Talk about Voting - Shall we? Generally speaking, I agree with everything that has been said so far. I usually quietly deal with these things, communicate with the MUD in question, make a decision. I posted because: A) There was a definite implication in this thread that 'nobody cares'. Same in some PMs and Emails received based on this thread and voting in general. B) This wasn't a mud that suddenly started to see votes increase due to a malicious player. It came out of nowhere, got listed, ranked in the top 5 almost constantly with <20 players online. The ratio of proxy votes was so high that if you take them out of the equation Avalon would barely be in rankings at all, so same net effect. I probably shouldn't have posted, but I did. Moving forward, quietly dropping these of course makes the most sense, which was actually happening at one point but stopped working. I also completely overlooked TOR in the original setup - the proxy list service I was using did not cover TOR anyway.