Steemit Won the Noonies - Social Network of the Year!
( A screencap from hackernoon.com showing us winning the "Noonies" )
Good news everyone! Seems that our efforts to win hackernoon.com's "Noonies" Social Network of the Year Award have resulted in us completely winning the competition! This could be a pretty big boost in hype for our lovely blockchain, perhaps exposing potential new users and investors to our community.
Oddly enough though, the site seems to be accusing us of using fake voting somehow and has a big nasty red banner above the announcement.. I know personally I only voted once.. as with many others I know.. Does anyone have any info on these supposed "fake votes" they are claiming or..?
While the whole "fake voting" discredit smear kind of sucks in a way, I'm not sure any of us actually did any such things in order to deserve being accused of fake voting. I mean if you did, whatever, comment below about how you did it.. But overall regardless of the "fake voting" this is a pretty awesome accomplishment.
I'll perhaps contact them and inquire why or how they reckon fake voting was involved, see if I can clear this stuff up for us. Anyways ladies and lads, we won it. By more than 1000 votes to boot! Very nice!
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Fake Votes? I call bullshit by them. lol
I've sent em an email asking why they are calling fake votes on this.. Will update if I get a reply. :)
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It could be because some people were using proxies/vpns to cast multiple votes? Maybe they have some way to check that and there were too many of those? That's my best guess. I used to put ads on websites I owned and sometimes they wouldn't pay me for percentages of my clicks and such because they were people on vpns. Just a thought. It's unfortunate that there is a dispute about this though. If anything, being able to be paid for being on social media as an average every day person, not just an "influencer" or some shit.... should make steem number one to begin with. Man, too many people still need to wake up. lol :)
Could be something along these lines. Likely. Still no response from hackermoon.
Does matter because we know that each vote is very value and Steemit is on the top. Win is Win everywhere.
Don’t worry if you don’t receive the email as a response @klye..
Those accusations as fake votes sounds as a selfish person and it is pretty sure that Steemit is better than others ...!!!
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Yeah, not sure what is going on there.
No reply from them as of yet. Oh well, we'll see I guess.
I saw someone comment under @theycallmedan post about this how the voting relies on a simple browser cookie mechanism, and he was going to go off on this 'exploit'
I'm sure some 'double voting' did occur... but what can you expect... make your system to be okay with than and? On a hacker site of all things...
I didn't realize their mechanism was cookie based.. Perhaps @theycallmedan has extra info on this and if it was him..?
I don't think it was him, he made a new post saying he was going to email them asking if they could subtract the fake votes to get rid of that big red message on their page... so I don't think it was him. Probably a few people did this thinking they'd be doing steem(it) a favour but now it just doesn't look all that amazing - not that they had any way of knowing. If you have a system that can be gamed, people are going to game it...
Awesome, congrats to all of us :)
Aye, indeed. Good for STEEM, hopefully.
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I voted only once,if result seems to be oddly fake,then hackermoon doesn't have a good voting system. They're kind of fake too...
Saem, only voted once here too.
lol, not sure if they are fake..
This is bullshit man, I voted 17 times and not one of them was fake?!
Uhhh.. lmfao.
Well, I guess we blame meesterboom for all this guys. XD
this held your balls and captured your eyes
Steemit today and forever....... L.Ron Hubbard would be on Steemit
lol. He likely would, yes.
It's great! Finally we show that we are together and we are community!
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Yeah man. Glad we won the competition.
Let's blame it on the Russians and call it NoonieGate.
lol. Too easy to blame the Russians. :D
...Great news, man!!!...but they really accuse us for fake votes!!????...i voted once, that’s for sure...seems like voting in Russia or turkey...if the opposition wins, they cancel everything cause of fake votes...hmmm, we have to be strong now, steemians...meanwhile..up..follow you...resteemed...heads up!!
Yeah, still waiting back on their reasoning for calling fake votes.. We shall see.
Thanks for the resteem!
..they should understand that there also existing ‚honest‘ social networks better user of these...we want the first place!..thank you for your efforts!..