How the NHL Can Fix Future Rorys
When the news came out that Rory Fitzpatrick didn’t make the starting All-Star team, I read a lot about how the NHL could fix this problem, or just how things will change, like what James Mirtle wrote:
As I’ve said a few times before, however, don’t expect this type of thing to happen again the next time around: I think the NHL has learned its lesson.
I think the lesson learned is what Ken Fidlin wrote: Roar for Rory best all-star hype ever
Now that the whole goofy thing is over and nobody got hurt or seriously embarrassed, it’s amazing to step back and recognize that the NHL could have spent millions in publicity and never in a thousand years have gotten so much positive attention for the sport and for the all-star shindig as they did by accident.
And that is the most accurate thing that’s been written about the Vote for Rory campaign yet.
The “fix” is to do absolutely nothing. A campaign like that won’t happen again because multiple campaigns will start up next season pulling fans in too many directions - and all the while you can have media pundits and bloggers alike writing about how no fix was ever made.
Nothing’s going to hype an All-Star game in any sport like controversy. Until anything effects the (exhibition) game in some sort of real way, the NHL should just sit back and bask in the exposure.
Comments:
The problems comes down to those little script writing kiddies. We need to set a limit on proxy IP’s, sub-net addresses and IP’s. Limit it to 12 votes a day, thats 1 vote every two hours.
I can write a macro to do all the voting for me and set the pace for how many to do an hour, minute or even a month. Now if I were to run a macro on lets say 3 computers, and did 6 votes a minute, and did this for a total of 14 days, that would be over 181,000 votes in 2 weeks, and that many chances to win what ever contest. That sort of cheating needs to be blocked, stopped and just plain not allowed.
Posted by Tony on Jan 12, 2007 at 04:04 PM
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