FOTY 2014 Viewer's Choice Rankings. (
http://www.flirt4free.com/foty/rankings.php)
Now where do I start with this contest and show how poorly implemented it is and can be rigged in under 5 minutes.
I will start by stating this and what should have been implemented :-
1. Voting should only be allowed by Premium and VIP members (NONE paying members should not be able to vote (BASICS).
2. Only ONE vote from each users account can be made for EACH model in 24 hours (NO 10 name voting on each account as can be done right now).
Simple right ?
Well lets show the problem right now and how I can and anyone with 5 minutes of time and a little programming skill can automate it to vote as many times as they want for a model they like to rig it in favor of their favorite model.
Now as Basic accounts are free (email registration only required) and can cast votes too and 10 names again can be added to each account to cast 10 votes.
Now I won't go into how to write such a script to automate this or reveal sites that can do such things for you, I will show you the concept and how to rig it.
1. There are many free email services that allow temporary free email inbox's to allow you to register with sites without using your real email address. You can register an infinite amount of email addresses with these services or even create your own email server and do the same thing.
2. Now you have infinite email addresses you can now sign up as a basic user an infinite amount of times to Flirt4Free as a Basic user and can create 10 names for each account and cast 10 votes for each account.
3. All this can be easily automated with a a few lines script to create the email address, then create a Flirt4Free Basic user account then Create 10 names for each account then you get it to vote each name 10 times for the model you want to win and set it to repeat creating again random email addresses and random account names and random 10 screen names. Very easy to do with a bit of Googling even if you have no programming skills, because there are applications to automate anything you want to do on a computer now to replicate a human doing it. There is even no Captcha system on Flirt4Free to stop this from taking place.
Now my proposal to make this FOTY 2014 Viewer's Choice Rankings. (
http://www.flirt4free.com/foty/rankings.php) a fair contest as it should be is to remove all votes cast by Basic users and then remove the multiple votes cast by the same account, so there should be only ONE vote in 24 hours from each users account and not 10 from each account for EACH model.
Until this is done the contest is not accurate, invalid and not fair to any of the performers or customers that are playing fair. Seriously VS if you want proof of this name a model that is not in the top 50 right now and I will automate any model that is last currently and not even listed to win.
Please fix this and don't allow such loop holes in such systems and contests you create or your customers and performers will loose all faith and respect for any contest that is run in this manner. It doesn't even need to be automated anyone with time and patience can create 100's of accounts and do this in the month you have this contest running.
Regards
Nabil