Steemit Won the Noonies - Social Network of the Year!

klye (73) in steem • 6 years ago (edited)

_{( A screencap from hackernoon.com showing us winning the "Noonies" )}

Good news everyone! Seems that our efforts to win hackernoon.com's "Noonies" Social Network of the Year Award have resulted in us completely winning the competition! This could be a pretty big boost in hype for our lovely blockchain, perhaps exposing potential new users and investors to our community.

Oddly enough though, the site seems to be accusing us of using fake voting somehow and has a big nasty red banner above the announcement.. I know personally I only voted once.. as with many others I know.. Does anyone have any info on these supposed "fake votes" they are claiming or..?

While the whole "fake voting" discredit smear kind of sucks in a way, I'm not sure any of us actually did any such things in order to deserve being accused of fake voting. I mean if you did, whatever, comment below about how you did it.. But overall regardless of the "fake voting" this is a pretty awesome accomplishment.

I'll perhaps contact them and inquire why or how they reckon fake voting was involved, see if I can clear this stuff up for us. Anyways ladies and lads, we won it. By more than 1000 votes to boot! Very nice!

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6 years ago by klye (73)

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stackin (78) · 6 years ago

Fake Votes? I call bullshit by them. lol

klye (73) · 6 years ago

I've sent em an email asking why they are calling fake votes on this.. Will update if I get a reply. :)

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stackin (78) · 6 years ago

Apppresh Bossman!

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lookplz (62) · 6 years ago

It could be because some people were using proxies/vpns to cast multiple votes? Maybe they have some way to check that and there were too many of those? That's my best guess. I used to put ads on websites I owned and sometimes they wouldn't pay me for percentages of my clicks and such because they were people on vpns. Just a thought. It's unfortunate that there is a dispute about this though. If anything, being able to be paid for being on social media as an average every day person, not just an "influencer" or some shit.... should make steem number one to begin with. Man, too many people still need to wake up. lol :)

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Could be something along these lines. Likely. Still no response from hackermoon.

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synrg (61) · 6 years ago (edited)

I saw someone comment under @theycallmedan post about this how the voting relies on a simple browser cookie mechanism, and he was going to go off on this 'exploit'

I'm sure some 'double voting' did occur... but what can you expect... make your system to be okay with than and? On a hacker site of all things...

klye (73) · 6 years ago

I didn't realize their mechanism was cookie based.. Perhaps @theycallmedan has extra info on this and if it was him..?

synrg (61) · 6 years ago

I don't think it was him, he made a new post saying he was going to email them asking if they could subtract the fake votes to get rid of that big red message on their page... so I don't think it was him. Probably a few people did this thinking they'd be doing steem(it) a favour but now it just doesn't look all that amazing - not that they had any way of knowing. If you have a system that can be gamed, people are going to game it...

ash (73) · 6 years ago

Awesome, congrats to all of us :)

klye (73) · 6 years ago

Aye, indeed. Good for STEEM, hopefully.

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cloudspyder (59) · 6 years ago

I voted only once,if result seems to be oddly fake,then hackermoon doesn't have a good voting system. They're kind of fake too...

klye (73) · 6 years ago

Saem, only voted once here too.

lol, not sure if they are fake..

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meesterboom (78) · 6 years ago

This is bullshit man, I voted 17 times and not one of them was fake?!

klye (73) · 6 years ago

Uhhh.. lmfao.

Well, I guess we blame meesterboom for all this guys. XD

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battleaxe (69) · 6 years ago

this held your balls and captured your eyes
Steemit today and forever....... L.Ron Hubbard would be on Steemit

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

lol. He likely would, yes.

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novacadian (58) · 5 years ago

Does anyone have any info on these supposed "fake votes" they are claiming or..?

Let's blame it on the Russians and call it NoonieGate.

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klye (73) · 5 years ago

lol. Too easy to blame the Russians. :D

enjoykarma (63) · 6 years ago

...Great news, man!!!...but they really accuse us for fake votes!!????...i voted once, that’s for sure...seems like voting in Russia or turkey...if the opposition wins, they cancel everything cause of fake votes...hmmm, we have to be strong now, steemians...meanwhile..up..follow you...resteemed...heads up!!

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Yeah, still waiting back on their reasoning for calling fake votes.. We shall see.

Thanks for the resteem!

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enjoykarma (63) · 6 years ago

..they should understand that there also existing ‚honest‘ social networks better user of these...we want the first place!..thank you for your efforts!..

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sindyjhg (33) · 6 years ago

Great news! We are in the right way :)

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

It is really good news. :)

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akumagai (53) · 6 years ago

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Noooooo. D:

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akumagai (53) · 6 years ago

I rescind... It's baked news

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resiliencia (68) · 6 years ago

Nice win! 😊

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Nice win indeed!

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pennsif (80) · 6 years ago

This post has been included in the latest edition of The Steem News - a compilation of the key news stories on the Steem blockchain.

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theexcelclub (66) · 6 years ago

nice work but that sucks!

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Aye laddy.

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jamesabigail (26) · 6 years ago

Wow nice!

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Indeed!

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cryptopie (81) · 6 years ago

Maybe they detected a VPN user that voted @klye but only 4,000 voted from steemm @klye

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Only 1 of thems votes is mine.. :D

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dmitrydao (67) · 6 years ago

Although it is a good news, we should have hundreds of thousands of votes, since there are over 1 mln steem accounts. Your thoughts?

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

We've got millions of accounts.. However most are either in cryostatis, inactive, or bots.

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mksmmi (27) · 6 years ago

I am new to steemit and learning the beauty of it 😀. Following you have to learn a lot ❤❤

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Steem is a long learning process, with all sorts of twisty changes along the road. Welcome to Steemit!

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lifeaef (52) · 6 years ago

I mean you can vote again easily by just reloading the page. Very unreliable

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Was it really that easy to do...?!

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distantsignal (64) · 6 years ago

These sorts of polls are never scientific and are always subject to bots or people using VPN's or multiple devices. The warning banner seems a bit excessive when they just could have said, "this poll is unscientific and is therefore anecdotal".

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Would be a good thing to explain it that way.

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sabari18 (68) · 6 years ago

I voted only once 🙄 fake votes?

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Yeah man.. I emailed them. Will post here when I get a response.

Thanks for voting!

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miti (75) · 6 years ago

So we are not only numerous but also smart.. we are the best, Steem is the best.

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

I agree captain!

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ange.nkuru (63) · 6 years ago

🤣

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steemitqa (64) · 6 years ago

BOOOOOM SHAKALAKA! we WIN!

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Aye laddy. BoomShakalaka indeed.

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manishmike10 (63) · 6 years ago

Absolutley amazing. And clear cut.

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Aye, I'm glad we won it. Trying to get down to the bottom of this fake voting thing though.

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manishmike10 (63) · 6 years ago

Fake voting? Maybe they used VPN

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Could be a possibility!

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manishmike10 (63) · 6 years ago

At least we won it.

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lightproject (64) · 6 years ago

lol the borat gif

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

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steevc (73) · 6 years ago

I am sure other networks had multiple votes from their users. Most of us have access to multiple devices. I am not sure how much it really means if Youtube and Facebook cannot even get 1000 votes. Still, we can celebrate our victory!

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

Yeah, I'm not sure what metrics they flagged the votes on. I have sent them an email to get clarification on what exactly they saw to call it vote hacking or whichever.. Will update this post if I get a response. Hopefully soon!

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paperbook (37) · 6 years ago

At last we are win...

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doriahailee (25) · 6 years ago

Good news!

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papilloncharity (71) · 6 years ago

@klue. Yay! We did it!
I just feel 10,000 votes would have been so much better.
Only 4020 of steemians voted.
But for whatever it's worth, we did it and that's what matters!
Blessings to all.

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cryply (25) · 6 years ago

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steemitboard (66) · 6 years ago

Congratulations @klye! You have completed the following achievement on the Steem blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You distributed more than 18000 upvotes. Your next target is to reach 19000 upvotes.

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supergiant (66) · 6 years ago

wow

bestwatches (25) · 6 years ago

Congrats is a very little word for this.

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chris94 (57) · 6 years ago

!Great! With everyone's support Steemit took first place !!! Let's go for more: 3

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ricardoalbornoz (25) · 6 years ago

Fake votes! Is it possible? I don´think so!

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davedickeyyall (73) · 6 years ago

fake votes? I thought Trump used all those lol

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psychmot (32) · 6 years ago

que felicidad, eso es realmente genial. La comunidad crece cada día más.

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grey580 (61) · 6 years ago

No one would vote this the best social network. You know it's all lies. lol

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torros (50) · 6 years ago

You are adults people but are doing some sort of nonsense. It is unlikely that the final result will respond to Steem or its price.

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koalaslippy (47) · 6 years ago

lol damn those bot right internet is evolved this days so much we dont know what is real and what is fake in internet anymore

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evanstinger (55) · 6 years ago

Glad we made it!
Tho I still dont get it why they still smear us with that nasty red box disclaimer. smh

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jeannedarcfgo (29) · 6 years ago

Wow, Good one!!!!

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enforcer48 (68) · 6 years ago (edited)

While the whole "fake voting" discredit smear kind of sucks in a way, I'm not sure any of us actually did any such things in order to deserve being accused of fake voting.

Told you not to use your gazillion alts.

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klye (73) · 6 years ago

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