"THOMAS5" (THOMAS5)
04/02/2014 at 01:53 • Filed to: None
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"THOMAS5" (THOMAS5)
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Dusty Ventures
> THOMAS5
04/02/2014 at 01:56 |
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Called it! For whatever the reason, between midnight and sunrise the W123 keeps getting a couple thousand votes
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THOMAS5
> Dusty Ventures
04/02/2014 at 01:58 |
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Ze Germans wake up and vote nonstop.
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THOMAS5
> Dusty Ventures
04/02/2014 at 02:01 |
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WE SHALL NOT LOOSE TO A WOODLAND CREATURE!!!!
Agrajag
> Dusty Ventures
04/02/2014 at 02:02 |
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It's gotta be Europe waking up. I wonder if they have the data to break down regions and times.
Garrett Davis
> THOMAS5
04/02/2014 at 02:09 |
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Noooooooooooo
Fuck. I'm starting to feel like a hipster with voting for the losing car on every poll...
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Dusty Ventures
> Agrajag
04/02/2014 at 02:12 |
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It's weird though, because I don't think I've seen those kind of numbers show up on a story during the American overnight hours before. Also I'm going to say it's too early in the day to be Europe's doing. It's 8 AM there (7 AM in the UK), the W123 has earned about 1,500 votes in the past three hours. I can't see over a thousand Europeans casting votes on an "American" car blog between 5 and 8 AM. Especially when the 11 hours prior only netted about 9,000 votes in the peak voting hours of the website's home country.
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Dusty Ventures
> Agrajag
04/02/2014 at 02:15 |
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Honestly, at this point I'm almost tempted to call shenanigans (not on the part of Jalopnik or it's staff, mind you). Someone somewhere stuffing the ballot box, so to speak. Especially since this is Benz's third straight overnight comeback of over 1,500 votes.
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Dusty Ventures
> THOMAS5
04/02/2014 at 02:25 |
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So in the past 30 minutes the Mustang earned another 17 votes and the Benz 344? At 2:20 Eastern U.S. time/8:20 Euro time the Benz is getting 12 votes a minute? I think I may need to go get my tinfoil hat, because something smells fishy here.
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Dusty Ventures
> Dusty Ventures
04/02/2014 at 02:26 |
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And in the time it took me to write that the Benz got another 47 votes...
Wow
Redd, the RX-7 that could
> Dusty Ventures
04/02/2014 at 02:29 |
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Some guy probably went out and bought every working 20 yr old pc he could find, loaded them all into his W123, took them home, and set about ensuring victory.
Fred (FreddsterExprs)
> THOMAS5
04/02/2014 at 05:04 |
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It's happening! The W123 always comes back.
crown victor victoria
> Dusty Ventures
04/02/2014 at 09:30 |
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Well there's a bit of outside help, too:
http://www.benzworld.org/forums/w123-e-…
http://mbworld.org/forums/e-class…
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/open…
I'm sure there are other forums doing this, but it stands to reason that the Mustang crowd is doing the same thing, so...
But I did see this as well...
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Agrajag
> Dusty Ventures
04/02/2014 at 09:32 |
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That would suck. I would hope they could tell if it was rigged somehow. I know I spent about 10 minutes refreshing the page and voting for the w123 before I realized it only recognized the first vote.