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  • Poll [5 votes]: Can unscrupulous pollsters rig the outcome of a poll?
Subject: Can anyone creating a poll rig its outcome?
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Poll: Can unscrupulous pollsters rig the outcome of a poll?  [closed]
Untrue:  0%
(0 Votes)
No:  20%
(1 Votes)
Negative:  0%
(0 Votes)
Nein:  40%
(2 Votes)
They Can't:  0%
(0 Votes)
Wrong:  20%
(1 Votes)
Disagree:  20%
(1 Votes)
False:  0%
(0 Votes)
Total Votes: 5

Well, can they?

[Edited on 6/4/2004 11:50:45 AM]

  • 06.04.2004 9:12 AM PDT
Subject: Can unscrupulous pollsters rig the outcome of a poll?

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No, because you can't vote in a poll more than once.

  • 06.04.2004 9:23 AM PDT
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I meant the people creating the polls. Look at the polling options I gave, and you'll see what I’m talking about ;-)

  • 06.04.2004 9:28 AM PDT
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Those who created the poll can, and so can others.

Remember the GameSpy Title Fight no so long ago? Halo was getting 40 votes a second because someone had a spamming network set up. They scrapped the results.

  • 06.04.2004 10:05 AM PDT
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This poll was intended for humor purposes only, not for any kind of actual scientific data gathering stuff. If you can’t figure out the humor in it, I'm sorry but I cant help you.

(btw Terran Grunt, this wasn't directed at you, just anyone reading.)

  • 06.04.2004 11:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: Terran Grunt
Those who created the poll can, and so can others.

Remember the GameSpy Title Fight no so long ago? Halo was getting 40 votes a second because someone had a spamming network set up. They scrapped the results.


Leave it to GameSpy to make an excuse not to rank Halo higher than anything else. They're biased against Halo for some odd reason.

Even if that were the case, they should've been smart enough to allow only one vote per IP.

  • 06.04.2004 11:56 AM PDT