Giants Fans Rigged Online All-Star Vote for Barry Bonds
Giants Fans Rigged Online All-Star Vote for Barry Bonds (flag)
larrybrownsports.com — All the details I just posted at FanHouse , so go check it out . Here’s the program that was posted on Giantsboard.com so that there’s no confusion (I had to crop part of it): Smells like the conspiracy I thought it was . Again, check out my post at FanHouse for all the details . Bookmark to:
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  • Redsauce Redsauce
    +3
    I'm pretty sure that there's a Firefox Greasemonkey script that someone wrote for Pat Neshek & his All-Star campaign.  It didn't work as fast, but it's a similar method to get people to vote in large numbers for a guy.
    Posted 7/7/2007 respond (flag)
    • Kris Kris
      +2

      Yeah, I wrote the Neshek script (http://mntwinsnation.com/entry/neshek-voting-made-easy/)

       Does anyone know how the Bonds program voted 25 times automatically? Did the real All-Star voting only require you to enter a validation code the first time?

      Posted 7/8/2007 respond (flag)
  • Redsauce Redsauce
    +2
    No idea how it voted 25 times automatically.  No, the real All-Star voting required a validation code for every time you voted, not just the first time.
    Posted 7/8/2007 respond (flag)
12 Blogs Link to this Story

Did Giants Fans Rig the Online All Start Vote for Barry Bonds?
FanIQ Blog — ... Barry Bonds making up 120,000 votes in a matter of days smelled fishy a week ago, and today smells even worse. Bonds isn't this popular. I considered the possibility of the MLB skewing the results, but the more likely answer comes from the tech savvy Bay Area fans. ...

Did Giants Fans Rig the Online All Star Vote for Barry Bonds?
FanIQ Blog — ... Barry Bonds making up 120,000 votes in a matter of days smelled fishy a week ago, and today smells even worse. Bonds isn't this popular. I considered the possibility of the MLB skewing the results, but the more likely answer comes from the tech savvy Bay Area fans. ...

Good Stuff ...
Our Book of Scrap: Sports News — ... Giants Fans Rigged Online All-Star Vote for Barry Bonds (Larry Brown Sports) ...

Rigging the Vote
The Scoreboard — ... Not only is Barry Bonds juicing, but his fans are too. Larry Brown seems to have broken the story about a group of Giants fans and a special program used to allow them to vote for Bonds online multiple times. ...

Linkage
Doberman On The Diamond — ... - Barry Bonds is a cheater, and so are his fans. (Larry Brown Sports) ...

Vote, robot, vote!
Siberian Baseball — ... My initial reaction to Larry Brown Sports' findings that some San Francisco fans might have used technology to their advantage to vote for Bonds up to 50 or 60 times per minute was to make quick, snarky judgments about cheater athletes having cheater fans, but with a little time to cool off, I'm pretty indifferent to the whole situation. ...

Blurbs and Links: Part Yod Zayen
Untitled[.] — ... Effin' Baroid fans...You cheat like your idol...(Larry Brown Sports) ...

Bonds Votes for All-Star Game May Have Been Rigged
The Biz of Baseball :: Business of Sports Network — ... , and followed up with a posting on his personal blog with screenshots of how to run the script in question (see below for the screenshot): ...

Saturday Salute To Bloggers
SOX & Dawgs — ... Larry Brown Sports found some information that some Giants fan rigged the voting for Barry Bonds to get into the All-Star Game. ...

Happenings and Mishappenings: Bonds a Cheat? No WAY!
Nyjer Please — ... , there is a program that automatically votes for Bonds 25 times. By pressing 'f5', you will again, vote for Bonds 25 times. Thanks to Larry Brown Sports for the heads up. ...

Even Bonds' Fans Are Cheaters
The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae — ... . My guess is Bud Selig looks the other way on the scandal, but that's just a hunch... Head over to Brown's post at the FanHouse, as well as his page Larry Brown Sports for more details on Barry's hackers... ...

Good time for an All-Star break
Twins Nation

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