This is such a shame, and although I do not want to "drag this thread" up to the top again I feel I can't let it go without making a comment.
Firstly i would like to say my personal favourites Lindsay Meadows and Brea Bennett did not feature so i have no truly vested interest in who qualifies/ wins etc...
Secondly I am not a temporary/ fake user, nor am I a senior member, just a regular poster.
Thirdly I would like to once again thank Stormruller and any others involved in setting this GAME up in the first place.
My feelings are as follows.
1: One of the reasons I joined this board over others was because of the nice (mature) feel to the posting here considering the subject matter.
2: Another reason was the fact that there are OCSM posters, who actually take the time and effort to come here and let us "fans" gain an insight into the porn industry and what they are up to. Make NO mistake, these boards would not be the same or have the same standing without the OCSM's.
3: During my time here I have noticed that Vicky Vette seems to interact with her "fans" more than most. In my eyes for that she must be fully commended, and from my point of view that is as good a reason to vote for her as any.
If I had known Jayden was interacting with her "fans" in the same way she would have got my vote also.
4: I guess from my selfish point of view the more people posting on these boards the better, ie the more the merrier.
So in terms of these new/fake accounts I cannot see an issue, I know that some/many of these posters would have contributed more to the board (as mentioned correctly by Jayden), hell I only joined for what i thought would be one post, and I am still here !!!
For me these new users should be encouraged and welcomed to the forums, not treated shabbily and their opinions made invalid.
5: On the other hand as rightly stated by Stormruller etc it is impossible to ascertain FOR CERTAIN who the real "cheaters" are, ie the members creating multiple accounts for voting purposes. Unless he gets the IP addresses from the mods he will never know. Even then it is possible for a shared house/ family to have various accounts under the same IP address.
Single votes as a way to weed out the "cheaters" is a non starter for me as I myself at times voted for only one girl in a group attempting to "help" her to qualify.
Personally I am still a firm believer in the "innocent until proven guilty" way of looking at things.
So in conclusion what can we say, well we started off with a fun tournament in the games section of the board. (fair enough)
Some "fans" of some of the girls in the competition got to hear about it and joined the board in order to vote for their favourites. (fair enough)
Possibly some members created mutilple accounts to add more votes for their favourites (poor)
Some of our OCSM members had votes deleted based on criteria decided by the tournaments organisers. (debatable but understandable)
I just think the organisers and the OCSM members could have discussed and debated this issue via PM rather than washing the dirty linen in public, after all despite my lengthy post AT THE END OF THE DAY THIS IS JUST A GAME and it would be a sad sad day to fall out over such a thing... :thumbsup:
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