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Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!

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Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
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RE: Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
February 17, 2011 at 9:53 am
(February 17, 2011 at 9:32 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: No, just that it wasn't a very good comparison.

Yeah...checked out the competition...quite frankly..no contest. reddit was hard to navigate around. The Dawkins forum is virtually dead and TTA (flashy but relies on Atheist Revolution blog??) claims 5,000+ members and only has 3% of the vote??

Hmmm FSM Grin

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RE: Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
February 17, 2011 at 10:01 am
Absolutely - we have a deliciously evil mastermind and much sexier members. Big Grin
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RE: Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
February 17, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Austin Cline Wrote:Atheist Forums had to be disqualified because someone ran a bot to add to their votes. Who did it is unknown, but the admins at Atheist Forums insist that none of their members were involved.
And they have proof of this?
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RE: Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
February 17, 2011 at 1:58 pm
I don't really need evidence of this, it smelled like a votebot so even if we won to me it would have been a hollow victory.

Mass voting for a laugh I can agree with, messing up a poll like this is just sad imho.
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RE: Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
February 17, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Well, the closest thing I ever came to making a bot was a robotic arm in IT class, so you can count me out.
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RE: Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
February 17, 2011 at 2:06 pm
It took me over a month to figure out how to use mIRC to chat here at home - I think it's safe to say it's not me.
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RE: Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
February 17, 2011 at 2:58 pm
I realized I joked about it on the shoutbox, but I don't have the knowledge, time or inclination to actually setup a votebot. The only reason I feel the need to post this is because Adrian informed me that atheistforums.org was disqualified because of my silly shoutbox post.

So I'm sorry for ruining the fun guys. I didn't realize that this Austin person, whoever he/she is, was so completely incompetent that he would take that shout seriously. Low hanging fruit I guess.




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RE: Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
February 17, 2011 at 3:07 pm
I'm only speaking for myself here, but I don't really mind. People should take the time to validate things they read before jumping to conclusions.
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RE: Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
February 17, 2011 at 3:17 pm
So - if that's true, and it wasn't a bot...how many of those votes were legit, and how many were us "re-voting"? I can't imagine we have enough of us to make that huge of a difference - so did we have a bunch of visitors say "fuck yeah, that place is great!"?
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RE: Best Atheist Forum of 2010 Award Nomination!
February 17, 2011 at 3:26 pm
(February 17, 2011 at 3:07 pm)Shell B Wrote: I'm only speaking for myself here, but I don't really mind. People should take the time to validate things they read before jumping to conclusions.


If that were true there wouldn't be a theist in the world.

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