Yes, you can determine if it's fake.
You determine if it's fake by doing IP address searches. That is how we always did it in the past. Unfortunately, the moderators of this site are no longer helping with the tournament as they have in the past. They outlawed posting on the girls threads to get them to vote, and they didn't help us with the IP address searches.
Therefore, the only way to stop the cheaters winning, is to remove the votes of all of the people who signed up just to vote. That is not the ideal way to do it, but anything - *anything* - is better than letting the cheaters win.
Erica Campbell AKA Erica Rose Campbell and Aria Giovanni both did very well in past tournaments by recruiting people to come and vote for them. However, that was when we had moderators doing IP address searches to prevent cheating.
Unfortunately, the cheaters ruined it for Vicky, Jayden and Eve Lawrence. It is highly likely that some of the votes that were removed were actually real votes. However the same standard was applied to ALL GIRLS. All votes by new users who voted for one girl and no other and joined after the tournament started were deleted, because this guarantees the deletion of every fake vote. There is no other way to tell which votes are fake without IP address searches, which could not only tell us which votes are fake, but also, which members have been violating rules by creating fake profiles, and therefore which members should be banned for life.
At least this way, nobody will be banned. But the same rules will be applied to the final.
And I should congratulate you all for treating Stormruller like shit after he spent hours and hours and hours putting this together and running it immaculately even after the moderators refused to help and threw a spanner in the works - going back on what had been promised in the past by their superior super-moderator.
Poor Stormruller. He has received nothing but problems over this, and Poggy isn't even here anymore!
He has done a fantastic job, and I am the creator and designer of these tournaments, and I am the one who gave him full control over these tournaments, and believe me, if I was the one running this, I would have made the exact same decision, and I advised him to do so, and for the Finale ALL votes made by ANY user that joined after the start date of the tournament, will be discounted. Any vote by anyone that joined after September 1st, will not be included. It is the only way to avoid fake votes.
Jayden and Vicky are only upset because this kept them out of the finale. If it had been Carmella and Shyla who had all the new/fake votes, they would have applauded the decision. That's how it works.
I'm sorry, Jayden and Vicky. You're two of the most beautiful women on the planet and we love you and adore you and will do anything for you, but we can not change the rules of this tournament from the way they have always been. If there are fake votes, we take steps to remove them. If the moderators will not help us by IP-searching the new user votes to make sure they are unique users, then we have to delete all of them. IP addresses would prove whether Vicky's, Jayden's, and Eve's votes were real or false... and how many. But we don't have that luxury. And it is more important to stop the cheaters and fake voters from prevailing, than to make Jayden and Vicky happy, even though they have taken their time and effort to come here and campaign for themselves.
Again, I apologize.
Without IP address searches, we will have to make sure that in future, like Big Gunz said, only users registered before the tournament can vote. That actually was the rule for this tournament, anyway, so it's not unprecedented.
If you want to run it differently, I think you'll get your chance, because I doubt Stormruller will do all this for all of you again after how badly he has been treated, and therefore, someone else will have to run it.
And believe me, if you include every vote that is cast, then the cheaters will win. They would have won last time, without the IP searches, and the two times before, and if we hadn't deleted the fake votes this time, then the winners would have been 1) Eve Lawrence, 2) Vicky Vette, and 3) Jayden Jaymes, because those are the three girls who have been the beneficiaries of the most suspicious votes.
As Vicky said, a lot of those may actually have been unique users who signed up just to vote, which is how Erica Campbell AKA Erica Rose Campbell did so well 2 years ago. However, without IP address checks, we have no way of knowing for sure, and therefore we have to delete those votes completely to eliminate the very strong possibilty that cheating voters will ruin it for everyone else.
Take care everyone, and I wish you luck in the future.
Fox
