Lopen posted...
Looking at patterns in the IP addresses of voters you can figure this out, as all the IP addresses in a private network/dial up will have many of the same numbers in them. I assume GameFAQs can do this in some fashion because this is why I was supposedly DQed in 2007. Also I think GameFAQs collects more information than just IP address when you vote-- if you collect information on the browser used/OS/etc you can usually catch a private network because they'll usually have a standardized setup so everything will match up there.
(I didn't cheat back then, mind you, but I did often vote on a dial up connection so I figure that's why I was "caught"-- only takes a few other regular voters using the same dial up ISP to make it "fishy"-- though I'm sure if they actually analyzed the actual content of the multiple votes and didn't find any real pattern in the "stuffed votes" favoring one side I would've been cleared there-- but Bacon is stubborn and would have none of it)
Except you can't prove anything that way, so it would simply be unfair to eliminate such votes. If gamefaqs does that, shame on gamefaqs. Gamespot only removes proxy votes which is 100% justified. Anything more than that is "Hey, let's skew the votes however we like!"
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