I spent over an hour yesterday and saw us get up to 40% to 33%

Feb 13, 2020
5:23:38pm

Bandersnatch Redshirt Freshman

Then saw them jump up several percentage points in a matter of minutes. The rate they jumped over that hour made me suspect bots.

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Bandersnatch

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Sam Merril is destroying Yoeli Childs in the Class Award. 61% to 27%. Fix it!

CougarTailDevourer

2/13/20 12:50pm

I did my part. It's someone else's responsibility now.

Indy Coug

2/13/20 12:51pm

I mean you can vote as many times as you want. So I don't know if it's ever

CougarTailDevourer

2/13/20 12:52pm

Well, Yoeli destroyed Sam on the court. Scoreboard.

Dakota Cougar

2/13/20 12:51pm

It’s a losing battle. They have called in backup:

Hambone

2/13/20 12:52pm

I honestly wonder if someone just wrote a script to continually vote for Merrill

CougarTailDevourer

2/13/20 12:54pm

Without an ability to see how many votes have been tallied it's very hard to

jcase16byu

2/13/20 4:12pm

Hat tip to a fellow FOer.

Hambone

2/13/20 12:54pm

RE: It’s a losing battle. They have called in backup:

ordinary tri guy

2/13/20 1:02pm

They have bots doing it. I'm not inclined to fight that battle.

Niiineteeen84

2/13/20 12:53pm

That's my suspicion as well.

CougarTailDevourer

2/13/20 12:54pm

How do bots get past that stupid reCaptcha thing?

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

2/13/20 12:57pm

Just looked at it. I imagine it only took a few minutes to write the script

AFewThoughts

2/13/20 1:02pm

So.....can you write the bot script for us?

MissBelyakova

2/13/20 1:05pm

This

Fallball

2/13/20 1:05pm

I can make it vote once, but getting it to vote again is hard because the page

jcase16byu

2/13/20 4:34pm

Winning the fan vote is just one third of the contest

Cougsanity

2/13/20 4:46pm

I looked into this briefly check out

AFewThoughts

2/13/20 6:30pm

But will it allow you to post to the form endpoint from another domain?

eysikal

2/13/20 6:49pm

Great....make it happen then...I don't want to lose to any dairy yewt

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

2/13/20 1:08pm

So we have Alumni creating the tech boom in Lehi/Traverse Mtn such as Vivint,

Coug Man in Florida

2/13/20 1:21pm

I'm guessing Sam's mom hasn't slept.

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

2/13/20 1:23pm

Script here...

eysikal

2/13/20 5:01pm

It worked once...then I got this error

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

2/13/20 5:11pm

Yep. Because after submitting the form it takes you to a thank you page.

eysikal

2/13/20 5:12pm

Bots and Scripts not allowed

Cougsanity

2/13/20 5:19pm

No idea. But the ReCaptcha that they have on that website is the simplest kind.

CougarTailDevourer

2/13/20 1:03pm

Can we please stop caring about this? I love BYU bball and love using this category to follow the team,

RSL

2/13/20 12:59pm

RE: Can we please stop caring about this? I love BYU bball and love using this category to follow the team,

spinner

2/13/20 1:04pm

And there is more than a month left of this.

The Dude Abides

2/13/20 1:15pm

This this this this this

Ham

2/13/20 2:12pm

So nerdy. I hope Merrill wins just to upset everyone on here.

TheWoodman

2/13/20 2:56pm

Yes. I will permit this.

Frank Castiglione

2/13/20 3:14pm

Let's tag this in a month.

Benfica1

2/13/20 1:04pm

'Bout time he won something other than cow-milkin' against Yoeli. Poor fella.

IceBlue

2/13/20 2:42pm

Seriously. Dude is a furious udder tugger.

IceBlue

2/13/20 2:44pm

Not sure how their two fans can generate that many votes

Oldcougfan

2/13/20 2:48pm

I'm kinda over fighting a bot battle. 6th man thing did me in. I've got PTSD now

Eddie

2/13/20 3:05pm

Yeah. But we WON.

Shore10

2/14/20 9:50pm

I still feel good that we can win any honest fight when it comes to jimmering

frontrowcougar

2/13/20 4:35pm

After I spent a few minutes voting fast, only to see Yo lose .1%, I give up.

rtNelson

2/13/20 4:49pm

I have a 1 minute limit on spending time Jimmering BYU-related polls.

Scott_Tenorman

2/13/20 5:06pm

Bots will lead to DQ of candidates it's in the fine print

Cougsanity

2/13/20 5:18pm

Sam may get DQ'd. USU fans just want to beat Y fans.

Benfica1

2/13/20 5:21pm

I spent over an hour yesterday and saw us get up to 40% to 33%

Bandersnatch

2/13/20 5:23pm

This is not in the top 100 things I am concerned about

Backcountry

2/13/20 5:35pm

Sam is now sitting at 66.6%. Hmmm....seems fitting. 😉

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