If anyone wants to help us out (see poll thread in chit chat & PP):

Here is this initial bot file for skewing the espn poll (by an FSU user)
http://www.wikiupload.com/2Q7KVY6NMW3F95S

Here is the source I could get:
http://www.wikiupload.com/1RG544UQUXXVUYK

Can you make it work for ncsu and downloadable to our user base?

[Edited on April 24, 2012 at 3:57 AM. Reason : hh]

4/24/2012 3:57:32 AM

Just got in to work, gimme a minute and Ill look.

4/24/2012 8:58:50 AM

This is easy, gimme 30 mins to get it up and tested.

4/24/2012 9:03:35 AM

They took the site down to make the vote more secure.

4/24/2012 9:30:10 AM

Yeah, they've changed something, I was running wireshark to get the parameters of the URL that needs to be submitted, and now I'm getting encrypted stuff.

Since I used my vote to get the wireshark data, I can't run the capture again.

At any rate, I've fixed the source code, we just need the parameters for the NCSU vote if anyone is willing to open up wireshark and get me a new capture of them voting.

4/24/2012 9:33:25 AM

I'll see what I can do once they open it back up

4/24/2012 9:43:23 AM

just wait until they re-launch. i'll help, it's been a long time since i've skewed a poll, but this has been pretty epic

4/24/2012 9:44:47 AM

I cleared my calendar.

4/24/2012 9:48:29 AM

Considering what FSU was able to accomplish over night, we should definitely wait to do a full scale skew after business hours.

4/24/2012 11:02:11 AM

created a topic on site3 if anyone needs to post tech details that they would not like public.

[Edited on April 24, 2012 at 11:14 AM. Reason : there are premium palace spies among us!!!]

4/24/2012 11:14:20 AM

^and they likely also have access to site 3...

4/24/2012 11:22:39 AM

Not as easy to get to as PP. Stick to PMs if needed


From noles subscription board (warchant):

Quote :

"Originally posted by Kid_garnet_and_gold: It's been shutdown. FIRE IN THE NOLE's BOT was clearly a monster as we went from 18,000 to 1.2 Million in less than 8 hours. Anybody ever notice that they don't close these things down until FSU gets into the top spot? This post was edited on 4/24 10:25 AM by Kid_garnet_and_gold We're usually by far the most organized at getting our bots together. I can't believe it took that long to get them going."

Quote :

"Nobody had a chance against FSU with the latest version that was emailed out this morning. It averaged 250 votes a minute and you could run as many as you could open. Anytime we needed to, we could have pulled the trigger."

Quote :

"We're usually by far the most organized at getting our bots together. I can't believe it took that long to get them going."

4/24/2012 11:48:31 AM

realistically it would have been dead simple to do it all in javascript and have it run constantly as long as a webpage is open

4/24/2012 12:02:44 PM

bttt? obviously we'll have to start over

5/1/2012 5:16:50 PM

ESPN put up a pretty solid captcha you'd have to handle. Epic poll skew fail by FSU.

5/2/2012 10:44:09 AM