Corruption and cheating: the slow death of the eUK
Day 2,106, 12:56
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by Sven Goran Duran-Duran
Never in the field of eUK politik have so many been cheated by so few.
First of all: turnout.
Let's start with last month's congress:
July Congress stats
So, it doesn't take a genius to see that New Era, Freemasons, UKRP, UKPP, WRP/PCP and ESO all got about 50% turnout. Seems fair enough eh?
Yes, but TUP got 84.13% (eighty four point one three percent!)
Now then, people may call me sceptical but something doesn't just look quite right there does it?
So, maybe it was just a blip?
But then let's take a look at this month's Congress results:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/euk-congress-election-august-2013-final-results-2310558/1/20
Once again, ALL the other parties (not including PCP, and I'll speak of them in a moment) about 50%.
Seems fair enough eh?
But, TUP got 73.83%.
Oh yes, and PCP? well, they got 82.56%.
Pull the other one, chaps.
Ofc some of PCP's activity is the result of it being supported by allies from TUP and its allied parties; e.g. :
http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1313810
http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/2266927
I probably don't have to tell you that Woldy is a former TUP CP, long time affiliate of the party and oh yeah, King. Needless to say, He's no communist.
And Sir_Rex is a longstanding member of the UKRP community. He's no Communist either.
But hey - that's OK, we already know that. It's not Sir_Rex and Woldy that have magically increased PCP's turnout to an unbelieveably high 82% - is it?
What has ofc is multis. It's not hard to spot. Check how many of their players don't even have avatars:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/main/party-members/113#8
Maybe they are not multis but are instead showing solidarity with the Worker by choosing not have an avatar....! xD
Of course, going by the stats, these guys all vote. So it seems kinda funny that none of them have avatars, doesn't it?
The truth is of course, that we have seen some of the largest scale cheating I've seen in my time here over the course of the last few months.
And all you have to do is look at the facts.
It's not NewEra going around PTO-ing parties, it's the Dentists and other such jokers. Then the Dentists call us PTO'ers when we have a couple of foreign based players in our congress list.
It's not NewEra getting 80% turnout in the Congress elections. But yet, people say we are the ones with the all the multis? If we did, we'd do better than a 50% turnout, eh?
It's not NewEra going around calling teachers paedos and wishing harm upon newer players, attempting to bully them out of the game. That would be Invalidation of TUP.
Oh, and we haven't really had an answer to this yet either, have we?
- Just how much was stolen from the Treasury, by whom and when?
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/theft-corruption-and-the-truth--2288102/1/20
^ a great read from an ex-TUP Minister of Finance, if you have the time.
Citizens of the eUK: you tired of this bs?
There is another way.
Sven Goran Duran-Duran, DSO
Member of the New Era Council
- with thanks to Neil Lewis for the stats
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The eUK is a sad place full of cheaters and trolls . Then the trolls call you a troll and you cheat , losers and I guess in real life too, mass cheating and nasty people who lies. The sad truth .
Its like he has tourettes and just shouts TUP every so often without any real reason.
You are a reason
I haven't been a part of TUP for something like 18 months. Its just his tourettes.
Is that why you're in Poland?
" mass cheating and nasty people who lies. The sad truth . " ..."bads Hobbit, nasty Hobbit"...Dapper's comments frequently read like the mind of Gollum.
raw data, statistical abnormalities ( 50% versus 80% of turnout) , excellent article. voted of course. THEIR REPLY? the usual trolling .
perhaps its called better organisation in turning out the voters?
Your response, to blindly follow like the good sheep you are, so because I don't(please read as can't be arsed) have an avatar I must be a multi of somebody else, every time I see some of this drivel with the vaguest/ slightest 'proof' I use that word very loosely, I have to deskface myself just to make sure i'm not dreaming then I can piss myself silly laughing at it.
Cheaters
You should and would know
What absolute nonsense, you should be ashamed of yourself.
I would explain all the ways in which you are wrong, but you are clearly so blinded by jealousy, hatred and spitefulness you would just ignore it all.
the PCP used to be a party me and you were proud to be part of, Zaphod. These days however, I don't recognise it. It is not me that should ashamed.
I was in PCP in 2008 when I first started the game with great players like IP who built it into a fantastic party.
Ironically, the reason I didn't rejoin when I came back is because I spoke to you and didn't like your attitude so I was pushed towards New Era. It didn't take me long to see the fundamental flaws in New Era (*huh-hem* Don) so I ended up leaving and being without a party for a while.
After being partyless I came full circle and came back to PCP as I really respect people like Ayame, by that time you were long gone and I see none of the toxic influence in the party that was here 11 months ago. Trust me when I say what the party is now would have a lot more support from the people who formed it than when you were 'in charge'.
I'm as proud of PCP now as I have ever been. We have a very active community, a great team of experienced players with more and more new stars coming along - Gonzalez, Kashiwiwi and F scott to name just three.
We got the best congress turnout with no votes removed - ie no cheating go figure - have a former president in TWO hq and generally have strong relations with the majority of non-pcp members.
Things have changed Sven,veangeful pricks like yourself have gone, and we generally have a much more chilled and much happier time out of it.
I hope we never go back to a party you'd be proud of.
well, at least try and get them some avatars hey coz you've done such a good job in getting them to vote? A token Fidel Castro one should do.
^ Total agreement with Zaphod. What a load of tosh.
Some excellent points but I'm sure someone will be along soon to say its all nonsense and part of a cunning insidious plot by us....
Right right look at the comment before yours.
what points? all I see is hate bro
TUP has always been damn good at getting the voters mobilised...why is this a suprise? We also have a core of around 200 active members, hence why we don't drop below 200 even at our lowest ebb...150 votes suddenly doesn't seem to hard does it?
what utter bs
you missed these words from your comment sven 'this article is but some will believe it'
[citation needed]
go vote yourself low life
he did...
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We got quite a bit of support from non-partisan and smaller parties, so our party turnout would be around the 60-70% mark.
Thats all I have to say on the matter.
interesting comment, ApronChef.
The funny thing is he doesn't realise we get more 'neutral' votes due to not joining in the mudslinging as a party and writing articles like this. Talk about an own goal.
you maybe not a mudslinging party - athough Acroc threw his toys out of the pram not long ago iirc - but you are imo, Cheaters of the Month \o/ (with TUP a close 2nd and a special mention for Consistency in Cheating)
if you define 'cheaters' as people who outperform you then sure. If you use a more conventional definition you have no evidence other than how loudly you shout
Absolutely pathetic.
First of all it is Sir Rex peefiddle Fleddington not sir_rex. Secondly it is not for you to decide what my political ideology is. Thirdly, PCP are not all dead citizens like NE or TUP (no offence to either), we are just rapidly growing thanks to the dedication of our recruitment and retention team.
Grasping at straws, trying to push the blame onto others...
Typical New Era!
i see you asked a great question at the end about gov money going missing ect. Well i presume you missed this article awhile ago. So here you are.
Hope this sheds some light
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/new-era-039-s-part-in-the-ongoing-039-missing-money-039-scandal-2288156/1/20
Since July, Our membership has gone from around 40, to 90. We were sharing a spot with UKRP and WRP, so how you can work out our turn out then I'll never know.
As you can see from the rise in membership numbers, We've been working hard to recruit and keep new players active.
Zaph got 74 votes at the CP election as the PCP candidate, PCP poll 71 in congress elections with people outside the PCP, most notably WRP voting for PCP despite not having a spot with us.
You can Baw all you like, NE is clearly full of dying newbies while we've managed to recruit and keep those new members for the most part involved.
As for Woldy and Rex, They're awesome. Woldy joined because he's a friend and has already contributed a brilliant idea for us to try out (he joined as he felt his ideas would be most welcomed by PCP as they are a perfect fit to our parties aims).
Rex, ApronChef, Robalbinio all left UKRP along with plenty of other people due to changes in UKRP. And they're more than welcome in PCP, how you know Rex's personal politics I don't know.
Well as the saying goes 'It's not a problem when people are talking about you, When they aren't talking about you is when you have a problem'.
So thanks for the extra publicity I guess :3
tl/dr version : "they offered me a role in TWO HQ, so essentially I bent over and took it."
Err, Who the hell is 'they'?
If you want to know how I got into TWO HQ... here is the inside scoop.
I asked someone who I knew was running for SoFA if they'd have me as their deputy, They said yes.
*shock*gasp*
The other funny thing is that you claim we used multis now... Yet when PCP fell out of the Top 5 nearly a year ago, Goku told me to get everyone to make more accounts, go to coffee shops, anywhere with wifi.
Despite wanting to keep PCP in the top 5 and having spent months since working to get us back there... guess what I said to him.
No. Because it's better to struggle and become a strong community than to cheat and succeed in the most empty way.
cheats
Irony & Lies.
Pffts that's not irony. Irony is writing an article calling a party cheaters because they got a high voter turnout, when the reason for the turnout in the first place is not writing such articles.
Yes, cheats and cheats are bad. BigAnt your reply is under the one that mentioned the advise of a real cheater, mr Goku Jones, a partner of you mr BigAnt.
It is indeed better to struggle and become a strong community than to cheat and succeed in the most empty way.
"Haters gonna hate, stop crying!" You can hear the baww all the way from Poland.
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You've been smoking too much crack
I voted PCP and I'm not a member so it should be 81.40%.
Rex left UKRP a while ago.
Also I voted PCP and am in UKRP, who ran under UKPP...
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/children-of-tup-see-the-light--2310902/1/20
Actually, only two parties got around 50% of turnout - New Era 1 and New Era 2.
What a hilarious misuse of statistics.
I don't know about the other parties, but perhaps NE's recruitment strategies help to explain it's low turn out without resorting to baseless accusations - while BA pretending to be a girl on other sites and offering incentives to join (bribery) are obviously effective in getting people to join, I can't imagine they're very effective for retention or activity.