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and theyed all be cheering if the results were oppositePistol78 wrote:I thought that this thread was good reading.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=482148
Seems like no one likes the fact that we got the top two spots.
shame i can't get to a kmart today being in city. And now it'll be in the tiser tomorrow.
How the Barossa beat the Barrier Reef
MATT WILLIAMS
June 07, 2007 02:15am
A GROUP of computer hackers has admitted rigging an online voting competition which allowed the Barossa Valley and Adelaide to clinch the top two spots on the new Australian version of Monopoly.
On Tuesday, it was announced the Barossa had won the coveted Mayfair position in the Australia Here & Now Monopoly board game, while Adelaide had won the Park Lane spot.
A reader yesterday informed the AdelaideNow website about a program scam which was able to submit tens of thousands of votes an hour through the Monopoly website.
South Australia received 7.6 million votes - nearly half the 17 million total - of which the Barossa won 2,046,136 votes and Adelaide 1.75 million.
SA received more votes than the combined total of Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Queensland.
Australia's most populous state, NSW, only managed around 400,000 votes.
The hoax voting was advertised in three forums between members of SA website Valhalla in January and February.
One forum, titled "monopoly.com.au", was first posted on January 22 as votes were being taken for which regions deserved their spot on the Monopoly board game.
A member on one of the forums wrote: "Overnight, my six screens combined pulled in around 110,000 votes according to the screens."
Another wrote: "lol (laugh out loud) I just heard on the radio Adelaide's winning, keep up the spamming."
When news of the Barossa and Adelaide's quinella was made public, another forum was posted on the Valhalla website, stating: "Monopoly Board - We Did It!".
One member wrote: "Nice one. I bet the eastern states are p . . . .d."
Despite the huge discrepancy in votes between SA and the other states, Hasbro Australia's Monopoly marketing manager Amanda Blackhall denied the voting was rigged.
"There were allegations early on that people could be rigging the voting system but we had been tracking it very closely all the way through with our IT people," she said.
Valhalla LAN Parties president Trent Hill said "the actions of these individuals was/is not in any way sanctioned by Valhalla (the organisation), however it is my belief that the individuals were not acting with malice".