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If a "crime" occurred it was committed by Smelly Monkey in starting the poll, and we all have to agree that wasn't a bad thing.



Only in terms of its construction: If he wanted to do a poll like that right, he should have included options for "Both," and "Neither." That would have produced an accurate (well, more acurate) survey of what the board as a whole thought about the matter.

My question is: How many of those C.L recruited actually have accounts here. The big flaw with polls is that, unlike rating threads and posters, anons can vote in polls. The votes are tracked by IP address, not by account name/number. So, if you recruit a shitload of non-XPT folks to vote in a poll about demodding longtime XPTers, it kinda puts a taint on the results, no?

For that matter, anybody with a list of proxies and an hour to kill can rig a poll any way he pleases, undetected. No "army of alts" needed.

Maybe it's not a crime, but it sure smells funny from here.