Idols and Twisted Gnostic Secrets
Feb. 14th, 2009 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aggienaut Most recent LJ Idol poll is up. With 28 people remaining, its easy to read them all. I encourage doing so. And voting! (=
[Poll #1348977]
I stared deep into the dark coils of lj, to understand its arcane inner magic, and lo, I was rewarded with gnostic secrets. Anyone can post any poll. I'm not a hacker, there is no secret. I simply questioned what I couldn't do and was rewarded.
And I found this pleasing -- that specifically the kind of behaviour I thought most commendable (questioning your surroundings) yielded a reward of some usefulness. Personally I think the advantage gained by being able to post the poll in your entry was more deserved to those who found it and more proportional to the merits of earning it than nearly all the random "rewards" and "Special powers" that have been purposefully bandied about in this competition. In short, it made me feel like at least something was right in the world.
However, all good things must come to an end. All too often good technology is eventually twisted, and this has happened.
Gary became concerned and asked how it is done, and the knowledge was passed on to him. I hoped he would have the good sense to keep it under wraps, or at least would tell everyone about it all at once. Unfortunately however, he simply told two idolists, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
spydielives and kittenboo.
It is no longer a slight advantage to those who have thought to question and investigate their surroundings on their own, it is now an advantage to those who asked Gary how to get advantages. That literally makes me feel sick, and I'll feel filthy until I rectify it.
From here I'm quite clear that it will continue to spread, and until someone posts about it publicly the people who have gained the knowledge by asking others will do it under the table. Already today I'm seeing strange vote spikes NOT accompanied by a visible entry, that ARE accompanied by "last post: four hours ago," a spot I can't see an entry anywhere near.
And so, I am levelling the playing field. I am telling each and every one of you that yes, you can post the poll. The method is shockingly, mind-blowingly simple, all you have to do is try. That or ask Gary.
PS: I thought I'd brighten your days with a visual representation of the poll standings. Please stand by, hopefully I'll have some charts converted to a postable size and form within an hour or two.
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Date: 2009-02-15 04:13 am (UTC)Hey, did you know that Gary actually told Spydie how to embed the poll, and she did it this week without telling anyone. And, in fact, she is the one who invented it when she used to a be a programmer for LJ 5 years ago?
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Date: 2009-02-15 04:16 am (UTC)I did hear about the tulipinyellow drama from last year, a bit of it anyway. But I only read and voted last year and didn't look at the green rooms at all, so I don't really know the whole deal.
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Date: 2009-02-15 04:29 am (UTC)I so don't want to revisit this. I have had enough of her. I only know that she was false with me from the start (denying we knew each other when we did, only she knew it and I didn't).
Have at... with my blessing.
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Date: 2009-02-15 04:25 am (UTC)My dear, I love you more each day!
It is a good thing I share well.
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