you could really drop a deuce on them by making the wget calls asynchronous

[Edited on January 7, 2010 at 1:14 AM. Reason : damn it's been almost 2 years since i've skewed a poll message_topic.aspx?topic=518273]

1/7/2010 1:12:48 AM

for page 8

1/7/2010 1:13:32 AM

You know everyone else in the world is just going to laugh at these results, right?

1/7/2010 1:28:53 AM

that's not the point

1/7/2010 1:30:07 AM

UNC is trending up now

1/7/2010 1:46:53 AM

wtf UNC is #2 now

1/7/2010 1:55:02 AM

Daaaaang. NC Representing. Top 5 spots. Somehow paired with like the 48th ranked public education system in the states.

1/7/2010 2:23:46 AM

looks like unc is gonna overtake us

1/7/2010 2:31:43 AM

Is there an automated way of voting again? I read the stuff on page 7, but it kind of lacks an explanation of what to do, or it's above my head.

1/7/2010 2:38:26 AM

i got ip vote banned

1/7/2010 3:47:01 AM

Someone wanna clue in webmaster@kiplinger.com that they'll have to 1) close the poll 2) set up really, really good voting measures or 3) removed UNC from the list?

1/7/2010 6:11:11 AM

hey evan, would the onion router help make you not get banned?

1/7/2010 6:57:04 AM

how many time are they going to reset this thing until they just say fuck this poll?

1/7/2010 8:49:22 AM

Quote :

"how many time are they going to reset this thing until they just say fuck this poll?"

haha, i was wondering the same thing... when i looked last night, we were back up over 111,000. looks like they reset it again.

...and they banned my IP, apparently, as the vote count isn't going up.

i suppose if you went through tor it might help, but you're just gonna get a bunch of the pool banned

1/7/2010 10:08:07 AM

silliness

1/7/2010 11:57:12 AM

For now, I just set firefox not to accept cookies from their site, click vote, see the count go up, hit back, hit vote, rinse, repeat.

Are any of the automated voters working, until I get IP banned? I've got a few computers I can run it on remotely for a bit.

1/7/2010 12:35:36 PM

Quote :

"Doug Harbrecht at 01/07/2010 02:37:33 PM Hi, I'm the director of Kiplinger.com. On Jan. 6, we noticed that some enterprising prankster(s) (computer science majors?) were stuffing the ballot box with automatic revoting programs. So we restored the voting tallies to what they were on Jan. 5. To the ballot stuffers, come on, aren't there phone booths to stuff somewhere? (oh, that's right, there are no phone booths anymore.) But seriously, please let those who want to vote for their best value in public colleges have their say. There's nothing at stake here, other than an opportunity for people to express their views, share ideas, converse, argue, and cajole. To everyone, please vote to your heart's content (once a day, please). Got more to say? Enter a comment in the reader comment box about your favorite school. And thanks for visiting Kiplinger.com. We hope you benefit from our advice, as well as the advice of others. "

1/7/2010 4:23:22 PM

Quote :

"There's nothing at stake here"

fuck that...there is a lot at stake here...like NCSU pwning the shit out of another online poll

Florida
Utah
Clemson
Kansas

Kentucky
Iowa
Purdue
Louisiana Tech
Idaho
Nevada
Georgia
Elon
Rutgers

[Edited on January 7, 2010 at 4:26 PM. Reason : .]

1/7/2010 4:24:53 PM

hahah

1/7/2010 4:25:38 PM

quality lullz

1/7/2010 4:26:46 PM

Quote :

"fuck that...there is a lot at stake here...like NCSUTWW pwning the shit out of another online poll"

1/7/2010 4:26:49 PM

poll has been owned!!

1/7/2010 4:29:08 PM

L
O
L

1/7/2010 4:29:48 PM

Question is, how do we still have so many votes?

1/7/2010 4:34:57 PM

That comment renewed my want to do it again.

1/7/2010 4:34:57 PM

were a lot of those comments not posted until just recently? I know I read through them and I just went and read back through them and there are new ones inserted in now...

1/7/2010 4:37:09 PM

I was just thinking the same thing.

1/7/2010 4:38:06 PM

well, if they held them back due the posts being allegations of "cheating" then I respect kiplinger for doing so and at least investigating first then posting them

[Edited on January 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM. Reason : .]

1/7/2010 4:46:06 PM

Quote :

"Posted by: Germdawg at 01/06/2010 01:39:18 PM Doesn't really matter since NCState and probably Oregon have some cheaters out their who like to run Macro's that keep revoting..."

Hahah!

1/7/2010 4:56:11 PM

truly hilarious

Quote :

"What was the profile of the automatic voting? Considering that NCSU is at the top of the polls, I would assume that the voting would be for almost every school except for UNC-CH. There's a big rivalry there, you know."

Quote :

"I think it has already been shown that NCSU is the best school as evidenced by their ability to run this poll multiple times now"

[Edited on January 7, 2010 at 5:57 PM. Reason : lollllllllllll]

1/7/2010 5:55:21 PM

Quote :

"Posted by: Bill at 01/06/2010 08:11:50 PM The US govt should hire NC State students to protect our computer systems from Chinese hackers."

1/7/2010 6:24:59 PM

^^What was the name of the poster for that first comment?

1/7/2010 6:27:54 PM

^that was you

1/7/2010 6:28:25 PM

1/7/2010 6:29:02 PM

Quote :

"I think it has already been shown that NCSU is the best school as evidenced by their ability to run this poll multiple times now"

Quote :

"The US govt should hire NC State students to protect our computer systems from Chinese hackers."

ahahahaha

despite them resetting the poll and fixing the exploits, we still won... and in an epic fashion.

1/7/2010 7:06:13 PM

epic lol

1/7/2010 8:33:10 PM

this stuff always make me laugh a little

but, ultimately, it just kinda embarrasses me.

1/7/2010 10:54:21 PM

Quote :

"Posted by: Stewart at 01/08/2010 04:34:52 PM NC STATE is easily one of the best public schools in the nation and is also one of the top higher- learning institutions in the world. I went to UNC and NC STATE is a better school hands down. I terribly regret my college choice and will make sure my children attend NC STATE."

lol

For page 8: http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges/vote.php

1/10/2010 7:32:53 AM

Quote :

"1) State University of New York at Binghamton 1417 2) North Carolina State University 1131"

1/12/2010 9:25:08 AM

i just got us back into the lead. keep votin

1/13/2010 8:21:50 PM

haha whoops my cursor fucked up and i just voted for florida state

and lol at this clown

Quote :

"Posted by: Tar Heel Warrior at 01/10/2010 11:10:04 PM Looks like those kids over at the Cow College in Raleigh have finally learned how to use a computer."

1/13/2010 8:24:48 PM

Quote :

"NCSU is a good value and is typically recognized for being more than a favorite because of its basketball program. Some schools are more popular for their sports accomplishments than their ability to place graduates into jobs upon graduation. NCSU has one of the most successful programs in the country for bringing in privately-funded research funds. Students benefit from this by having opportunities to assist professors as research assistants. NCSU is also very successful with its internship program. Students at NCSU can walk away upon graduation with job experience and marketable degrees unlike its neighboring public university that has Duke envy issues but not-so-marketable degrees. "

I like that

1/13/2010 8:28:14 PM

Somebody with more time than me get this to work

Vote.vbs

Quote :

" ' % -> ALT ' ~ -> ENTER ' ^ -> CTRL ' + -> SHIFT Dim wsh Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WScript.Sleep 1000 WshShell.AppActivate "Chrome" WScript.Sleep 3000 WshShell.sendKeys "^+t" WScript.Sleep 1000 WshShell.sendKeys "^l" WScript.Sleep 1000 WshShell.sendKeys "http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges/vote.php" WScript.Sleep 1000 WshShell.sendKeys "~" WScript.Sleep 1000 dim i for i = 0 to 27 WshShell.sendKeys "{tab}" WScript.Sleep 200 next WScript.Sleep 2000 WshShell.sendKeys "n" WScript.Sleep 2000 WshShell.sendKeys "n" WScript.Sleep 2000 WshShell.sendKeys "n" WScript.Sleep 2000 WshShell.sendKeys "n" WScript.Sleep 2000 WshShell.sendKeys "{tab}" WScript.Sleep 2000 WshShell.sendKeys "~" WScript.Sleep 2000 WshShell.sendKeys "%{f4}" WScript.Sleep 100 "

1/13/2010 9:22:29 PM

I like how we are still in second place.

1/15/2010 9:59:26 AM