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If you had known that you were further down the leaderboard, would you have cheated more?
I’m sorry, but quite frankly I take offence to that. I was honest in what I said above in my post. Obviously I don’t control the actions of my fans, but – an offhand “vote early vote often” joke aside –I never seriously encouraged anyone to participate in the competition dishonestly. Maybe it’s you who needs to look at the so-called modelling you’ve been using to detect “cheating”. I know my co-author, for example, has five people living in his house; they all would’ve voted for us, and those five votes would’ve all originated from the same IP. Were they discounted?
For the record, the usernames I did register were
alisdeeandesia. Both their ratings were filed on the first day. I believe I made it quite clear above that if I knew our position wasn’t “close” much earlier on in the competition, I would’ve pulled our campaign, not “cheated more”; that was rather one of my whole points.Clare, I have to admit that I’m a little confused as to what you’re trying to achieve by arguing here, other than making me doubt your grasp of PR. You’re a public site now; you’re going to get criticism. I respect your right to respond but, as a hint: Arguing endlessly with me isn’t helping your site’s professional image any.