Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Vote Fraud Solutions?

As we have discussed the vote fraud occuring in the blog post below (on ff at http://www.forexfactory.com/news.php?do=news&id=164795), the real concern is fixing this going forward. We should stay away from negative talk in this post and focus on a real solution. One company that was exploiting the system at least expressed a desire to stop it from occuring in the future. I submit this is about the most material piece of news available since it affects content delivery far into the future, in other words what content is given priority in getting delivered to site visitors. I think the better the system, the better the content prioritization will be, and the more forexfactory will flourish as the hub to visit for top news. I do have serious doubts about a voting system working at all, because it is so easy nowadays to control many accounts from many areas around the world. Therefore my first thought was a voting committee, but that is far from a well formed idea and could be open to similar abuse if not implemented correctly. I am sure forexfactory is interested in presenting the best system possible, so lets get our ideas out!
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  1. Ryan RobisonMay 4, 2009 at 2:21 PM

    Simon: You should post this to Forex Factory. Such a joke the news section is becoming because of fxinstructor.



    How FXinstructor is manipulating votes:



    You’ll find the people who vote for them are the same every time. Most of the accounts are new this year (the same amount of time fxinstructor has been popular news poster). Many of them don’t ever (or rarely) post comments, they are just voting accounts.



    They vote for fxinstructor every time. To avoid suspicion, they also vote for other stories, but only those posted by Forex Factory, “Calendar News.” And those articles are always ones that have lower vote totals so they won’t move higher in the rank than their own. They never vote for another news poster.



    Here are some of them:



    Abcforex

    Altman13

    ayutri84

    cat777

    elliot54

    kathybauer

    MihaiFXI

    Peterlian

    Simon1948

    Sophiachen

    suffix

    yara.k

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