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"This hurts us more than it does you."
Today we decided to bring the first Bitjam Remix Compo voting process to an end, and unfortunately for everyone, it turned out to end on a dismal note, which is a really disturbing and sad situation for us organizers and contributors, but while it's something we probably could have avoided, it's certainly not something good faith would've caused us to expect:
There will be no winner. All votes are discarded and the compo is officially cancelled.
Why? Because we've been monitoring the votes and new accounts for the last week or so and the amount of fake accounts and ridiculously biased votes became just simply insulting. We have the IP-ranges, we have the email addresses starting with "bitfellasfakevote@...", hell, we even have users registered with the same surnames as the entrants - it's pretty damn obvious any way you slice it. It's just feels like a slap in the face after the work we did for setting the thing up, musicdisk included.
But seriously. Did you think we're that stupid? Or for that matter, did you think it helps? For God's sake, it was supposed to be a fun-compo with no material gain apart from maybe a little icon next to the song name on Bitjam and a week of fame on Pouet - was that REALLY worth your virtual penis sizes? Jeez, more than 15 people entered tunes, some of them are compo organizers who can even have access to the database directly and still they didn't bother messing with it - because it won't make the music itself any better.
We, the organizers, would like to apologize to everyone who really just set their tunes free in the hands of the voters and played the game fair, and everyone who really spent time judging the tracks and voting honestly: you've been robbed of the fun, obviously, and we can take some of that blame for not having a more sophisticated voting system - it's just that we really didn't expect this, of all things Bitfellas, to go this juvenile. Next time we'll be more alert for this... if there will be a next time.
We're really sorry, guys. We had no choice left.
-- The Bitjam Remix Compo Organizing team
Berlin Pub Meeting #0028
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» chromag
Well, I did it years ago so you are free to do that, too :)
» Serpent
hmm i guess i know :)
» chromag
Serpent: I'm quite disappointed about your plans.... you know what I mean ;)
» Serpent
thanks for interview chromag!
» Serpent
what EviL said
» EviL
fuckings to retards fake voting. I told this was happening 3 days after voting was opened. you are so brainless to think people are blind. it sucks to be you!
» chromag
http://www.pouet.net/nfo.php?which=51600&f=4 here it is, my first and last ascii-logo from 1992!
» chromag
H2o, Dipswitch etc. kneel down for your ascii-master Chromag
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