Vote for the "icefishing car"

[Fish On! Guide Service]

I contacted The Discovery Channel today via email to tell them how we feel. I disclosed information regarding their "pop up" screen stating the winner ahd already been chosen and also told them that several thousand of us from this site have banded together to vote and win the contest. I should have information within a week, but I'm not holding my breath. I'll keep you posted should they write me back.

Stephen

[Fish On! Guide Service]

Rick reported at 10 am that the count was at 5990, well I just voted now and the count is at 5739. Hmmm? Something sounds fishy to me. If everyone gets the opportunity, email the discovery channel and let them know how you feel.

Stephen

[Fish On! Guide Service]

I received an email today from the producer of Monster Garage; she stated:

Hello, I'm the producer of the Discovery.com Monster Garage site, and I received your email.

Thanks for writing, but I can assure you, as the builder of the poll, it is not rigged. As a writer who works with templated software, I wouldn't even know how to rig it. And I certainly have no incentive one way or another to influence how it turns out; the network doesn't have an opinion, either. We really do want the viewers to choose, or we wouldn't have created a poll at all.

As it happens, a 4x4 Web site (http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?s=4fecdf41c1eee7e65eab0dbed60e5415&threadid=111488) organized very early on and has been coming online to vote regularly. That is likely why there are so many votes for the rock crawler.

I did program the poll so that it will only record one vote per computer every 12 hours, so if any of your colleagues are voting more than once within 12 hours, it will not record the vote -- although the pop-up window will come up.

I have seen the site http://fishingminnesota.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/002781.html -- I think that's the group you're referring to? -- and we were delighted that people cared so passionately as to post about the poll. And if we weren't interested in building an ice-fishing monster, we wouldn't have selected it from among the thousands of ideas submitted by viewers. It is a great idea.

I'll double-check with my HTML developer to make sure no one on the outside hacked the poll, but the votes are very much in line with the number of unique visitors to the page and the postings we're seeing on other message boards.

Thanks for writing,

Kristen
Producer
Discovery.com

So there it is folks.

Stephen

[Guest]

rock crawler 14016 46%

anti-riot vehicle 9957 33%

ice-fishing car 6371 21%

[Fish Toys]

rock crawler 14032 46%

anti-riot vehicle 9974 33%

ice-fishing car 6377 21%

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/monstergarage/poll/poll.html

"FISH"

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http://www.icesaws.com/

[Grabs]

Well guys, here is a place to voice how much we wanna see this ice crawler built!

I say we post so much here that they don't know what hit'em!

http://discovery.infopop.net/1/OpenTopic?a=frm&s=6941912904&f=8511993295

[big_fish_guy]

I posted the starter topic. Let's get lots of responses to it.
http://discovery.infopop.net/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=6941912904&f=8511993295&m=7101989816

[Chad711]

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111488&pagenumber=1

It will never happen fellas...

Some people are cheating

[Chad711]

And dont Nark on me, Im a member there! I would just rather see a fair vote...

[Uncle Grump]

FM'ers

If'n you go look thru the URL of a 4x4 BBS that Chad711 posted - and read it, you'll
see that back about 1-27, the IFC was way ahead - but then - well, lets just say that rock nuts started using technology to cheat - this is a quote from one of the posts there....

Quote:

Wonder why we are getting 100 plus votes at a time?? I opened up 25 of those script windows.

They are all runnin along smooooooooooth

End Quote:

This is by a poster named "Country Girl", and is dated 1-27, at 10.55pm.

I would have to say that we never stood a chance. But oddly enough, in the 4x4 thread, they show vote counts and percent-ages like none of us have seen......

Call it what you want - I still call it rigged, but fraud and cheating work too.

If Discovery wanted to do the "right" thing, they'd throw the whole thing out. But they won't, cause there's advertising $ to be made off this - even for the rock hounds.

UG

[This message has been edited by Uncle Grump (edited 02-18-2003).]

[Grabs]

They must have reversed a lot of the numbers.

When did all of this stuff about the ice fishing care at 72% happen?? I never saw that!!

[Tully]

Cool,
I don't know if this was from my original post on MG's site but I suggested an ice fishing car several months ago. I though it would be cool to have a 4 wd Suburu with Matt Trax on it. a blade on the front and an auger that would come out the hatch.
Tully