*** Zero tolerance for voter fraud ***

[Diamond]

It has come to the attention of the Community Leaders that there is a possible case of voting fraud occurring in the Lite Challenge. Unfortunately this is not the first time this has happened over the last few months, so we are forced to take action.

What is voter fraud?
Well, in the context of this forum, it is A) creating, or having someone else, create fake accounts with the sole purpose of voting in a contest, or B) encouraging others to create an account with the sole purpose of voting in a contest. Obviously the latter is hard to prove, but the former is immediately obvious.

Why did this come up?
Community Leaders were alerted to the fact that four accounts were created within minutes of each other on the morning of August 16th. The only thing any of these four accounts has done is to vote in this month's Lite Challenge. In the interests of transparency I have decided to post the names of those four accounts, since anyone willing to dig for five minutes can find out this info anyway:

andredias
andremarcos
Elionde
marcospaulo

Why do you care?
Sadly, this is not the first time this has happened. Thankfully it has not occurred on a challenge where we have an outside sponsor offering a prize. This site was created and is run with an ethos of honesty, openness, and helpfulness, and needless to say allowing cheating to happen on a contest goes against all of those principles.

The Community Leaders are aware of what is going on, and the Admins have been notified. We may not be able to prove who the culprit is, but be aware that it has not gone unnoticed and we are taking steps to resolve this once and for all. In the meantime, I and other CLs have advocated for the removal and invalidation of those four suspicious votes from this month's Lite Challenge. Stay tuned for more information.

[lostatsea]

Yeah I have noticed this on rare occasions. Not this one though. Hopefully this can be curtailed.Perhaps guild "Applicants" Shouldn't be allowed to vote until FULL members.