Several people got in touch, not just one person that marcom suspected and alleged, and all were pointing out that the joy in the photography challenge was being tainted by marcom trolling and a couple suspect vote rigging.
The external poll tool is nothing to do with me, and I cannot determine any rigging there. But it's definitely possible to vote rig as this site and the poll tool do not share integrated auth, and so it's trivial to go and register multiple accounts and do what was suspected. It's just rather... pointless.
I PM'd marcom to say: really... don't do that if you are doing that, and if you are doing that perhaps consider normalising it as the outcome of winning by rigging the poll is going to be a downer for all and if it turns out to be true I'll just ban as he's been banned before and should know better and this really isn't the spirit of things.
Marcom's reaction is to not reply, but instead to troll and to try and call out 1 person he suspects said something to me. Which is kinda pointless too, because as usual multiple people need to contact me for me to do anything and multiple people did.
Anyhow, it's dull. So I've just deleted his access token and blocked the only way to login with that account, effectively locking him out temporarily whilst he figures out how to be a decent human again.
Such needless politics.
Several people got in touch, not just one person that marcom suspected and alleged, and all were pointing out that the joy in the photography challenge was being tainted by marcom trolling and a couple suspect vote rigging.
The external poll tool is nothing to do with me, and I cannot determine any rigging there. But it's definitely possible to vote rig as this site and the poll tool do not share integrated auth, and so it's trivial to go and register multiple accounts and do what was suspected. It's just rather... pointless.
I PM'd marcom to say: really... don't do that if you are doing that, and if you are doing that perhaps consider normalising it as the outcome of winning by rigging the poll is going to be a downer for all and if it turns out to be true I'll just ban as he's been banned before and should know better and this really isn't the spirit of things.
Marcom's reaction is to not reply, but instead to troll and to try and call out 1 person he suspects said something to me. Which is kinda pointless too, because as usual multiple people need to contact me for me to do anything and multiple people did.
Anyhow, it's dull. So I've just deleted his access token and blocked the only way to login with that account, effectively locking him out temporarily whilst he figures out how to be a decent human again.