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Sorry I disagree.
I rang and spoke to Porter Novelli at least twice and emailed then on at least two occasions to ask if we would be ok using a single computer on a single but dynaic ip address to put the votes up to the site. Likewise I called them and discussed concerns some of the voters had raised about vote rigging after reading the magazine article. On each occasion I was told that everything was fine and that BT were encrypting the votes being sent so they could not be intercepted and were using that wonderful captcha facility so they knew it was a human entering the votes... and..... and... oh... nothing else then! No checking of Ip addresses just monitoring voting patterns. What was that going to prove. When we did events we got 100 200 votes where as some days we got none so how anyone could make sense of that kind of data god knows.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/362962/revealed-how-bts-fibre-rollout-could-be-rigged
I was told that it dint matter about the IP address they were looking for postcode and only allowing a single vote per house. I must have put at least 400 votes from my one Ip address then about another 150 from a new ip.and a few of the other members had done likewise.
Having had an email with at least 900 other emails included in the email then to have someone try to drag it back again by sending out another email asking for it to be withdrawn! I did start to wonder if I could actually believe anything about this farce. Bt would not talk to us directly at any time (nothing new there then).
I guess you could try and put rubbish in and click not a bt user then it would be lost and did not check their records. I have been told that this is what was happening with a lot of the strange voting.
How you manged to get two votes for one address is amazing, I never managed to do that!
Re the towns that had votes removed they should have been instantly disqualified instantly!
Yet at least one of them went on to win!!
As only about 12% seem to sign up for the service it has been a total flop and nothing more than a publicity stunt which I worried about to start with but thought they would never get away with that.
Sorry I am not accepting anything favorable has come out of this competition.
I and over 1400 other users are up in arms at the poor standards and practices that have been adopted throughout the competition
As far as Infinity goes, they can stick it as far as....... Infinity!
If I get one more call offering me Vision I will scream the exchange can hardly support broadband let alone their poor mans cable.
BT Just how much damage has this done to you?
Ok there are 6 winners and thousands of looser's with millions of customers.
These are your customers, so I guess the biggest looser here is BT?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
