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Time Magazine Polls
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Time Magazine is an amerifat news magazine which was founded in 1923, when dinosaurs still existed. The magazine is famous because its Person of the Year award, which is won by the most influential guy/group of the world in that particular year, this award was won by Adolf Hitler on 1938. The magazine is also famous for its Time 100 list and polls, ALL-TIME lists and Red X Covers.
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moot is the most influential person in 2009
In 2009, Time 100 poll was published on internet and it allowed you to vote the most influential person of that year. Anons saw a great oportunity to give moot a growth in popularity. anons started massvoting with scripts the poll and in a few hours moot was the first in the results, but that wasnt enough lulz, so some original guy came up with the idea to write something vertically using the first letter of each name, there were many ideas for what word to write vertically. The final decision was to spell MARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME in allusion to a IRC channel used during Project Chanology. To do this they wrote new scripts which voted in a way some random fucktards got positions on the poll they would have never got.
Once Time Magazine realized that they got rekt, they implemented the Ultimate Jew Web Utility also known as ReCaptcha to stop autovoting scripts. ReCaptcha works by displaying 2 words in a way no human can read them, the human has to guess what the hell is 1 of them, the real one, since one of the words is the real one and the other one is fake, if you type in the fake one the ReCaptcha will return an error and you´ll have to type again a different word. Anons studied ReCaptcha mechanism and found out that by typing random words which were very similar to the ones used by the captcha, was enough to be able to bypass it. So the new scripts used at this point typed random words just to be able to bypass the captcha in some attempts, this was slow, so they made the script load 3 captchas at once to increase speed. A Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) was also employed in ReCaptcha typing box to redirect some users to a fake third party poll website where you could read MARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME.
In the final day of the poll, Time decided to give the final results with the MARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME in. This is considered one of the greatest trolls in history by many internet neckbeards.
Kim Jong Un is the most influential person in 2012
On 2012, our beloved glorious Leader was accused of using Gas Chambers against its prisoners, and at the same time Time 100 poll started. Anons decided that putting KJU at the top would make a lot of people rage since North Korea is one of the most hated countries in the world, the idea of making something like it was done with MARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME was a good idea, this time was turn for KJUGASCHAMBERS in relation to the gas chambers accusations.
To be able to fuck up the poll, some guys at a IRC channel made a Java script known as NKVoter that was able to boast 500-1000 votes per 4-8 people running it (nigger math here according to the author). The script used Tor to bypass the IP adress check used by the poll, this allowed to use all Tor node IPs on the poll. In 2 days the poll was already fucked up at a script voting rate of 6000 votes per 10 minutes.
The word Feminist is banned in 2014
On 12 November 2014, TIME started its 4th word-ban contest, which bans the winning word in the contest from its magazine, in the 3 previous contests the words that won and got banned were: OMG, YOLO and twerk. In this 4th contest the polemic was served when TIME decided to gain mass ammount of views (views=ads=Jews) by adding the word Feminist to the word list along bae, on nom nom nom and other horse shit.
Some 4chan user found out the poll and started making threads to make people vote for Feminist in the poll, the threads were quickly posted over at 8chan, 711chan, 76chan and others as well. In a couple of hours Feminist was the most voted with the 50% of the total.
The media quickly started making News about it and quickly blamed 4chan, MRA and other communities of manipulating the Poll. Also some of them even were Jelly that TIME was cleverer than them at gaining massive views on their site.
See Also
- Time Magazine: The first point of this article is also explained here.
- Hitler TopTens: Other polls ruined in a similar way.
- Hitler: The Babe within: Hitler is the hottest babe in Australia.
- Dub_the_Dew: Mountain Dew poll ruined in a similar way.
External Links and Sources
- Feminist poll 2014
- 2009 poll results
- About moot by Time
- A good explanation on breaking ReCaptcha
- Kim Jong Un KYM article, I took most of that part from here
- Download NKVoter (use at your own risk)
- NKVoter at Github
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