An outrageous burst of cheating has hit the Best Asian Blog category at the Weblog Awards, leading to heavy deductions of votes from frontrunners XiaXue and mr brown.:
The total votes for Xiaxue have been reduced by 5048 votes for cheating committed from the following the 220.255 subnet. Nine individual IP addresses have been banned.
The total votes for Mr. Brown have been reduced by 9944 votes for cheating committed from the following the 218.186 subnet. Three individual IP addresses have been banned.
AsiaPundit has had several beers with mr brown and can assure readers that mr brown would not engage in mass cheating. As a father of three, plus an xbox junkie and blogger, there’s no way he could find the time to rig a contest. Plus, like AP, mr brown is so technically clueless that he is completely reliant on TypePad to run his blog. Essentially, mr brown does not have the smarts to pull such a stunt.
Seriously, just look at him:
I can’t speak as strongly on XiaXue’s behalf, having only met Wendy once, but she also seems pretty clueless. Even more so than mr brown, in fact. To anyone who has read her blog, it should be obvious that she can barely type.
Obviously this is all a plot by Mr Miyagi (AKA the silencer) to get the front runners disqualified. Unlike mr brown and XiaXue, Miyagi is very smart… plus, he’s evil (as evidenced by the fact that he still owes us beer).
Kevin at Wizbang has banned the IP addresses of the cheaters. Unfortunately, based on comments at mr brown, this may have shut out all users of Starhub cable broadband ISP Maxonline, one of the city state’s main providers. AP hopes that this is not the case or, if so, that it can be rectified quickly. If not, tens of thousands of Singaporeans will be effectively disenfranchised.
Of course, given that the People’s Action Party has effectively intimidated the opposition to such a degree that many ridings are uncontested in parliamentary elections, as well as the presidential ‘vote’, being disenfranchised is something that Singaporeans are pretty used to.
Still, it’s not very nice.
(Full disclosure: mr brown bought the beer the last time AP was at a S’poreblogger meetup (has it been mentioned that Miyagi still owes both AP and mr brown a round?).
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December 13th, 2005 at 6:58 am
Some who can’t type get more readers than you can ever try to get, skinny white ass. That, I find quite funny. Someone ought to learn HIS place in teaching others how to write.
December 14th, 2005 at 7:58 am
U seem to have something against Xiaxue. Best not to voice it out like that. U’ll get backlash. Plus it’s pretty stupid to keep demeaning her like you seem to be doing a lot recently.
December 14th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
welllllllll people ARE entitled to their opinions, no? =) you’ve got great stuff.. and when miyagi gives you your beer, drink your worth heh heh
I don’t think xx or mb did it themselves too, even if they have been asking for more votes (that’s supposed to be half the fun anyways)… they have more integrity than that (even if I’m not fond of xx, got to be fair, ya?) =))))