Time-rich netizens marshall ballot-stuffing bots against... Radio Times contest

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Reddit is the last bastion of true internet heros.

Never forget.

/r/salmonsole

May he live on in the hearts and minds of generations to come.

It's just Tims being mischievous.

I bet Nigel Farage has something to do with this, what with losing yet another election but this time as a radio "presenter".

More like radio c**t.

Now Brady and Grey are going to have to do another segment about how they "don't approve". Great!

You can outsource capchas for about $10 per thousand ... so ive heard

We actually like O'Brien!

This article seems to have been written under the assumption that the Tims dislike O'Brien when a common things Tims talked about during the vote was how they actually liked O'Brien.

"It's not as if Star Trek versus Star Wars is under discussion."

About that, they should just put aside their differences and get along...

http://www.haku.co.uk/b3ta/StarTrekWars.jpg

Could be interesting, but I'd watch the crap out of this mashup:

http://www.haku.co.uk/b3ta/StarDwarf.jpg

Tims had nothing against O'Brien. The Tims rallied to vote for Doctor Brady Haran in an earlier round of the poll when he was up against Steve Allen, who tweeted asking for his fans to vote, and that he was up against 'another person I've never heard of '. Allen had in the previous round of voting knocked Dr. Haran's Hello Internet podcast co-host CGP Grey out of the running. This tweet by Allen was taken as a slight by the Tims, who rallied to defend their beloved podcast host's honour. The momentum they generated simply carried their efforts forward to the end of the polls.

With regards to Mr. O'Brien, the Tims actually found his positions to be largely in line with many of their values, and there was a general encouragement in the Hello Internet community to give Mr. O'Brien's content a try to see if it was to their liking.

It's not ballot-stuffing

if the rules explicitly allow multiple votes from the same person.

"Why this particular bunch of Redditors dislike O'Brien is a doctrine of faith, not really explained, and frankly, who cares?"

Also, despite the best attempts of the author to stir up controversy, it wasn't about being against O'Brien, it was about being *for* Brady Haran.

You could've figured this out with about 10 seconds of detective work; your own article links to /r/HelloInternet, the subreddit of the podcast Hello Internet (http://www.hellointernet.fm/), aka the podcast Brady Haran co-hosts and thus was his qualification for being part of the radio/podcast competition to begin with.

In other words, you were on a fanpage for Brady Haran, watching Brady Haran fans organize a voting initiative for Brady Haran, and you didn't figure out why they were voting for Brady Haran.

How DARE you?

You accuse me of ballot stuffing? You insult my honor, sir. Good day to you now.

I SAID GOOD DAY!

"Internet ballot-stuffing has existed for as long as Rickrolling, if not longer"

The first rickroll occurred only ten years ago.

I would imagine that internet ballot-stuffing has been around for as long as internet opinion polls, which themselves have likely been around for almost as long as the internet itself.

Corrections

Some corrections...

The entire point of the vote was to vote as many times as you wanted. We just wanted to vote more often than they did.

Secondly, they were stuffing the ballots too in response, as did all prior opponents we fought against alongside the much respected Dr. Brady Haran & the posh as cushions CGP Grey.

Again, that's Dr. Brady Haran.

Thirdly, we Tims as a whole have no problem with old whatshisname nor did we have a problem with any others. Though that Steve fellow did invoke great wrath when he dared to suggest that Dr. Brady Haran was a small time unknown podcaster who wouldn't stand a chance against the likes of him.