Poll for Part V reopened

[shipm-mod.livejournal.com]

Our latest poll has been re-opened. Sorry about the mix-up! It will remain open until 6 AM EST tomorrow to give those who missed out time to get their vote in.

We will be taking a short break once that poll has closed to sort out the votes from the last three polls. Socks socks everywhere! What turns out to be sock votes will be discarded and we'll announce our very first champions once we have a good handle on what to count and what not to count.

Thank you again for your votes!

Comments

[enisy.livejournal.com]

Not hard to tell, when some of them have as obvious names as rockysockme, unfunfunfzutara, isocksummore, yeswecanbtches and hiothersockers. :P Also, I'm guessing accounts created on the day of the poll are prime candidates.

[haro.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm sure some of them are very obvious, like the ones you pointed out. What I was more concerned about is situations like the one commented below, and how in my main fandom at least (and I'm sure others are the same), there are a lot of fans who only joined lj to look at locked posts and occasionally comment, so have no posts in their own and little to no content in their profiles/interests. Also, there are people whose only journal is their rp journal. And yeah, that's a couple of the reasons I asked for clarifications. Without that, it seems a bit of a slippery slope.

edit: LJ is eating my comments, so I apologize if you get this more than once.

[ayasugi-san.livejournal.com]

Not a mod, but if I were, I'd use journal creation date as the major telltale. Most of the very obvious socks were created 7-13-09. Even an empty, keep-up-with-friends journal should have an older creation date than the day they voted in the poll.

[haro.livejournal.com]

Yes, I definitely agree with that.

why look it's that RP account someone accidentally voted with

[szasztastic.livejournal.com]

Well my concern is that they'll be looking to eliminate votes caused by people who voted with their regular journals, then went back and voted with their like 20 RP accounts or something.

Re: why look it's that RP account someone accidentally voted with

[ayasugi-san.livejournal.com]

Again, not a mod, but that might be easy to spot, too; look for a large block of votes for the same pairing, check the userinfo to see if they're all RP accounts belonging to the same person. Doesn't help with people smart enough to space their RP-account votes out over several hours, but it would also spare most cases of "accidentally voted with RP journal instead of main" and "only have an RP journal".