Vote For FIRST

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Chexposito

You can put voting macro on it, but can't make it to obvious by winning by a lot...

Just tried it with iMacros on Firefox, works fine (just have to clear cache and cookies as usual)...

EDIT: Forgot to mention you need a delay and wait for the results to pop up then clear your cache and cookies

Please don't do this. This reflects poorly on both you individually and FIRST as a whole. The sponsor of the competition has asked for one vote per person and that should be respected. If that means that FIRST does not win the money then so be it.

Remember, WWGD? (What would Grandma Do?)

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

Please don't do this. This reflects poorly on both you individually and FIRST as a whole. The sponsor of the competition has asked for one vote per person and that should be respected. If that means that FIRST does not win the money then so be it.

Remember, WWGD? (What would Grandma Do?)

There's actually another really good lesson here: don't trust the results of stupid web polls.

You know the ones that newspapers and news programs like to run? Where they make up a biased or simplistic question, and then pontificate about the perceived significance of the results? And then usually fail to understand that some kid is spamming the results? (Basically, this.*)

Given what's been reported in this thread about the Pitney Bowes votes, it's pretty obvious that all three organizations are getting plenty of scripted votes here. Like Wolf Blitzer used to say, "this is not, repeat not, a scientific poll".

And it's all for $9 000 USD. For that matter, what's the point of giving just $9 000 to one of three multi-million-dollar organizations? (Check their financials: FIRST, buildOn and NFTE.) Certainly there are other worthy organizations for which this would be a much bigger deal.

The other voting page has its own problems—like requiring your registration in their program and your consent to disclose information to a third party (American Express)—but at least they've taken some measures to make the tally legitimate. And they're offering much more money to the winner. That's the one that the FIRST community should have its eyes on (every week for the next several months).

*In case that link dies, it's a Fox News web poll about the "real" goals of the Tea Party movement. In the lead: "Fruitless mix of racism, conspiracy theories", 89%.

[rotolomi]

Put in my vote and now we're in the lead by 7,227

[Tanner]

Heh, just noticed they added a captcha (go recaptcha!).

Got my vote. We're by a lot. Don't know how much, too lazy to do the math.

-Tanner

[Chexposito]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

Please don't do this. This reflects poorly on both you individually and FIRST as a whole. The sponsor of the competition has asked for one vote per person and that should be respected. If that means that FIRST does not win the money then so be it.

Remember, WWGD? (What would Grandma Do?)

I'm sure a lot of people already said they've used computer labs to vote multiple times. The only difference in a macro is that it automatically votes and doesn't require another computer, plus one vote on the macro takes like 20s because of the speed of the voter. I only tested it to see if the macro would work. i ensure you that people have repeat voted more than the macro voted. I did it for 3 votes (4 if you include setting up the macro). Not to mention that the other organizations have probably used one (i think one went from like 500 to like 10,000 in a night). plus i just checked and they added a macro preventer, so it should be even now

EDIT: And i was surprised when they didn't put the macro preventer in the first place, based on that it's internet voting giving money to technology skilled kids

[DinerKid]

Wow Build On is now in third. Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship shot forward quite a bit. We are still up by about 8500.

~DK

[lynca]

Originally Posted by DinerKid

Wow Build On is now in third. Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship shot forward quite a bit. We are still up by about 8500.

~DK

FIRST has the lead but Network for Teaching is gaining votes at a faster rate.
Keep sending emails to your team to vote, end of competition is June 9th !

[rsisk]

Guess what, we won!

13,060 - Build On
27,631 - FIRST
16,765 - Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship

That was just the warm up round, now, get out there and vote for $200K on this one: http://www.takepart.com/membersproject/vote

[kstl99]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Guess what, we won!

13,060 - Build On
27,631 - FIRST
16,765 - Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship

That was just the warm up round, now, get out there and vote for $200K on this one: http://www.takepart.com/membersproject/vote

For the Education catagory for the $200,000 FIRST is in the lead, 45% to 20%. See this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=85987

By the way, all three charities ended up getting the $9000.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by kstl99

By the way, all three charities ended up getting the $9000.

Grumble... OK, it's a good thing for the other two, but then if we had known, we'd have expended our energy elsewhere.

Well, $9k is 9k, so no complaints here.

[kstl99]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Grumble... OK, it's a good thing for the other two, but then if we had known, we'd have expended our energy elsewhere.

Well, $9k is 9k, so no complaints here.

It's one way to get 57,000 hits on a web site.

[rsisk]

FIRST is currently tied with JumpStart for first place with 23% of the vote.

Remember, you can vote every week through Aug 22nd.

http://www.takepart.com/membersproject/vote

[rsisk]

FIRST is currently ahead of JumpStart with 32% to 23%

Remember, you can vote every week through Aug 22nd.

http://www.takepart.com/membersproject/vote

[Cheerleader1073]

FIRST's looking in good shape to win!

[Siri]

Bill mentioned this on his Blog on Thursday. It turns out the pot's even bigger than just $200K!

Originally Posted by Bill's Blog

I’ve asked a few times for everyone to vote for FIRST and I mentioned that FIRST could receive $200K if we receive the most votes. Well I just learned a lot more than cash is on the line. The winner will also receive a video spot that will be aired September – December on TV during Glee, House, Fringe, Bones, The Good Guys, Lonestar, NBC News & MSNBC plus in select theaters. Print ads will be included in Travel & Leisure, National Geographic, Time, Vanity Fair, Lucky, Black Enterprise & Architectural Digest, plus posted on on AOL, Yahoo! Green, MSNBC Giving Channel, Ad.com, Facebook, Quantcast, Huffington Post Impact Channel, Salon, CNN, Impact Your World, Urban Daddy, Thrillist, Care2 Action Channel, Travel & Leisure Green, Food & Wine Green, Huffington Post Green, Google, Yahoo and Bing. So if you can, please vote for FIRST. http://www.takepart.com/membersproject/vote

That's a lot of publicity.