Rig an Aussie Internet poll - Rugby
18 November 2003, 12:35 PM
#1
Been sent this :
Time to rig an Aussie internet poll!
Follow the link below to rate England's performance on the Sydney
Morning Herald web site.
Go to this link http://smh.com.au/polls/sport/form.html and vote that England were "Scintillating", then pass this message on to as many England rugby fans as you know.
The Aussie Pommy bashing of "dull, dull, dull" has reduced from 52% to 42% of the votes already (and is still falling)! If we can make "Scintillating" the top rating then it's certainly going to confuse the Aussies.
DO IT NOW!! (And pass it on...)
Time to rig an Aussie internet poll!
Follow the link below to rate England's performance on the Sydney
Morning Herald web site.
Go to this link http://smh.com.au/polls/sport/form.html and vote that England were "Scintillating", then pass this message on to as many England rugby fans as you know.
The Aussie Pommy bashing of "dull, dull, dull" has reduced from 52% to 42% of the votes already (and is still falling)! If we can make "Scintillating" the top rating then it's certainly going to confuse the Aussies.
DO IT NOW!! (And pass it on...)
18 November 2003, 01:54 PM
#6
It's not just the chariot that's swinging ... English rugby fans have been whipped into action in an email campaign to force a major swing in our online poll.
The poll asked readers to describe the English team's performance against France in Sunday night's soggy semi final.
Last night it was clear the vast majority of the 3000 votes cast reckoned the playing style of the English kicking machine was "dull, dull, dull", with only a handful describing it as "scintillating".
But over night - with England 11 hours behind Australia - that all changed and a bit of electronic rucking and mauling got underway to get the ball out of the boring bin.
Expat Aussie Angus Dobie told smh.com.au that an e-mail chain had started in London, urging all English rugby fans to vote "scintillating" - and it scored a Wilkinson-style conversion in the poll.
By early this morning it had swung high - with more than 40,000 voting "scintillating" and "dull, dull, dull" rating less than 10 per cent.
Web developer Jonathan Hedley - who checked the poll logs for smh.com.au, said: "A lot of attempts were made to stuff the vote but they were rejected. There are several layers of protection to the polls and this appears to be another email link campaign."
Small wonder then to find the barmy army in the frontline of the battle.
The English soccer site Ministry of Soccer headlined their response: "Whinging Aussies attack us yet again:.
The article went on: "I know we're fans of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and so on and would never admit to our mates that we quite like watching a bit of egg-chasing, but we're about to win a world cup and the Aussies are launching yet another attack on us!
"So if you fancy winding up the Aussies before next weekend, hijack this Sydney Morning Herald poll. Go to http://smh.com.au/polls/sport/form.html and vote that England were "Scintillating", then pass this message on to as many England rugby fans as you know. And some who aren't!" The same kind of thing happened with our Hanan Ashrawi poll last month. A campaign to skew the result turned a large yes (she does deserve the prize) to a final no (she doesn't) by the time the poll closed.
The poll asked readers to describe the English team's performance against France in Sunday night's soggy semi final.
Last night it was clear the vast majority of the 3000 votes cast reckoned the playing style of the English kicking machine was "dull, dull, dull", with only a handful describing it as "scintillating".
But over night - with England 11 hours behind Australia - that all changed and a bit of electronic rucking and mauling got underway to get the ball out of the boring bin.
Expat Aussie Angus Dobie told smh.com.au that an e-mail chain had started in London, urging all English rugby fans to vote "scintillating" - and it scored a Wilkinson-style conversion in the poll.
By early this morning it had swung high - with more than 40,000 voting "scintillating" and "dull, dull, dull" rating less than 10 per cent.
Web developer Jonathan Hedley - who checked the poll logs for smh.com.au, said: "A lot of attempts were made to stuff the vote but they were rejected. There are several layers of protection to the polls and this appears to be another email link campaign."
Small wonder then to find the barmy army in the frontline of the battle.
The English soccer site Ministry of Soccer headlined their response: "Whinging Aussies attack us yet again:.
The article went on: "I know we're fans of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and so on and would never admit to our mates that we quite like watching a bit of egg-chasing, but we're about to win a world cup and the Aussies are launching yet another attack on us!
"So if you fancy winding up the Aussies before next weekend, hijack this Sydney Morning Herald poll. Go to http://smh.com.au/polls/sport/form.html and vote that England were "Scintillating", then pass this message on to as many England rugby fans as you know. And some who aren't!" The same kind of thing happened with our Hanan Ashrawi poll last month. A campaign to skew the result turned a large yes (she does deserve the prize) to a final no (she doesn't) by the time the poll closed.
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