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How is it possible that our #1 person is at close to 2,000 views already? Could it be that someone is cheating?

so am I wrong to assume that if someone else makes a similar statement, it doesn't matter.

If you want to know why I said it was rigged, it was because on page 2 I asked what I thought was a reasonable question and did not get one single response. So I decided to test something out to see if I wrote something negative would I at least get a response. I did. lol

Hi MissKitty,

The difficulty with the type of accusation you are making is that it is extremely hard to prove, and also, in making it, you sort of leave your self open to the same charge. Plus, we should remember that there is, and always should be, a difference between proof and suspicion.

In answer to your question on page 2 of this thread, users of this site can increase their friends score each day, but only by one vote (i.e. if I click you today it'll register once, but then I won't be able to increase your score again until tomorrow - and so on each day).

In that respect, there is a level of security in place to stop people from getting friends to rack up clicks for them, and of course you cannot increase your own score by clicking on your own profile. Nevertheless, as with all security measures, there is no doubt a way around it (that's the reason banks still get robbed), but it is unlikely to be proved that someone is cheating in such a way.

Having watched closely the advance of LushP, what I can say is that it was quite amazing. Usually scores stay resonably constant, with slight movements, but earlier today LushP was gaining 2-3 clicks every few seconds over the space of about an hour, amounting to several 100 clicks in that time. And then it came to an almost complete stop at around 2700 clicks in total; it's now climbing at a much more typical rate. To put that in perspective, LushP gained more clicks in a couple of hours than most of the other leaders would get in a week. But, as Nicola has pointed out, that could be down to clever networking or the fact that LushP has just posted a popular story.

It would be a shame (although not so surprising) if someone did feel the need to cheat for $100, but in the end for them they'll know that their score is meaningless.

So, MissKitty, just enjoy the fun and don't worry about it. It doesn't really matter. Like Lydia said, this is generating great traffic for the site.

Charley x

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