Cheaters aren't welcome here.
Update: It's pretty much impossible to cheat now that we've created the 1 vote per IP address rule. Read the official rules for more info.
March Madness has officially begun. Everyone and anyone can vote. If you are registered on Zinch, your vote counts as 2. If you aren't then your vote counts as 1.
I just wanted to remind everyone that cheaters will immediately be disqualified. There can easily exist cheaters in the voting on the semifinalists as well as the Cinderella 3. We will not tolerate it. We know every vote you submit and every person you invite. We also know exactly where the vote is coming from (as in location, computer, IP address, etc). If we find that a substantial number of your votes are coming from the same place....or that a substantial number of votes are coming in all at the same time (or very quickly together).....red flags immediately go up. We might immediately disqualify you without further investigation.....or we might investigate a little more...depending on how obvious it was. We will have no mercy on cheaters. You have absolutely no place in this competition.
Cinderella 3 is the same thing. We know people can invite a bunch of bogus fake email addresses and create a bunch of bogus zinch profiles. That stuff is so easy to catch. We will look at the profiles created. We will contact many (if not most) of these people individually to make sure they were indeed invited by you and that they are real. You can guarantee that we will be verifying the profiles/people of the people that the Cinderella 3 supposedly invited. We aren't gonna put three people into the field of 64 without making sure that it was all real. Every single part of it. It's that simple.
Cheaters will be caught and they will immediately be disqualified. It's that simple. Below is a picture that's a little more playful....but cheating is certainly not a laughing matter.
By the way, if your friend(s) is the one cheating for you...you will still be disqualified. Even if your friend does it without your knowledge....you will still be disqualified. Make sure your friends aren't bone heads and that they know the rules. Make sure they know that they'd only be hurting you. That's all there is to it.
- Mick
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Posted on March 3, 2008 under March Madness |
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Comments (9)
i was wondering. i took this as a freud and i starting voting on my friend's march madness thing. and i was wondering who would get disqualified..me or them?
Posted on March 3, 2008 1:09 AM
The person in the competition would be the one disqualified. Each contestant needs to make sure their friends know the rules and the consequences of breaking the rules.
Posted on March 3, 2008 1:15 AM
What happens if you have one email address, such as a family? Can only one vote come from that email address?
Posted on March 3, 2008 6:57 AM
Hello, I'm one of the semi-finalists and I did have more than 250 votes earlier today, March 3, 2007. I believe, on suspicions of cheating, that many of my votes were removed. Why is it cheating if a parent's company colleagues vote for you from the same business location? Everyone has a right to vote anytime they want. I don't understand why my votes are gone. And how does my entire family vote if they can only use the same computer at home with th same IP address..
THIS TRULY MEANS THAT EVERYONE CANNOT VOTE. This system does not make any sense.
Posted on March 3, 2008 2:36 PM
Hello,
When friends make their profiles how will they say that the candidate in march madness is the one who directed them to do it. Where would they put the person's name who told them to make an account to help them win this scholarship. And also if there are five members in your family but you only have one computer can you still vote five times?
Posted on March 3, 2008 3:41 PM
As for the Cinderella 3, if your friends make zinch profiles, but they don't go on a lot, so they look fake, does one still get disqualified?
Posted on March 3, 2008 4:31 PM
Hey, my brother, my mother sister and dad tried to vote from one computer is that against the rules?
Posted on March 3, 2008 6:53 PM
WOW, okay...
Posted on March 3, 2008 8:17 PM
Thanks for making it clear. I know this will lower the vote count - but I understand that there's nothing else you can do to make it fair. I have a friend in Spain who had a gathering of friends at an internet cafe and they cast votes for me. So I imagine all of their votes won't count - and I have been telling people to vote only one time on their home computer since the voting started.
The problem is when I sent my notices out this past weekend (before voting started) I just asked for votes and now people are telling me they forwarded the message on to their friends and family and I don't know who those people are to tell them to make sure they only vote once. The people I sent the messages to are honest but, I am trying to cover my bases and have been sending out new messages to everybody - and I am really concerned that I could be disqualified based on the actions of people I don't even know if they were forwarded all over.
I don't mind if the vote counts are lowered - it really is the only fair way to do it - I just don't want to be disqualified because this is so important - for all of us!
I am really sorry that some people have to make it so bad for everybody else and you guys because it turns out to be a lot more work! So even bigger thanks to all of you for diligently watching the process - it makes my belief in Zinch even stronger!
Zinch Rocks!
Adrienne P.
Posted on March 3, 2008 9:03 PM