{"id":558,"date":"2009-04-22T00:12:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T05:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=558"},"modified":"2009-04-22T00:12:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T05:12:41","slug":"stuffing-online-polls-with-amazing-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2009\/stuffing-online-polls-with-amazing-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuffing online polls with amazing results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having run a big online poll and seen some abuse, I had to share this <a href=\"http:\/\/musicmachinery.com\/2009\/04\/15\/inside-the-precision-hack\/\">story posted on the Music Machinery blog<\/a>.  Every year, Time collects their list of 100 most influential people and conducts an online poll.  Most years it&#8217;s a healthy ballot-stuffing competition between Stephen Colbert fans and fans of the Korean singer Rain.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,1883644_1886141,00.html\">top 100 this year here<\/a>.  Does anything look strange to you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/musicmachinery.com\/2009\/04\/15\/inside-the-precision-hack\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kg9kl.jpg\" alt=\"Time.com&#039;s mot influential poll\" title=\"Time.com&#039;s mot influential poll\" width=\"450\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-559\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kg9kl.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kg9kl-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through a combination of seeding forums with misdirected vote links and clever vote bots, the fans of 4chan not only got moot to the number 1 position but spelled out a message with the first letters of the following positions.  That&#8217;s a truly amazing hack, and a surprisingly mild response from Time&#8217;s developers.  <\/p>\n<p>This is also an interesting look into the kind of tactic used by web spammers.  Funny in this case, but this is the kind of thing we&#8217;re up against.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having run a big online poll and seen some abuse, I had to share this story posted on the Music Machinery blog. Every year, Time collects their list of 100 most influential people and conducts an online poll. Most years it&#8217;s a healthy ballot-stuffing competition between Stephen Colbert fans and fans of the Korean singer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[609,283,462,625,310],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-colbert","tag-hacked","tag-poll","tag-timecom","tag-webspam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}