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Good read.

Talon for CP!

I think it says something that they needed to buy so many hundreds of votes for anyone outside of their two parties to even know who he is. He seems like a nice guy, I'd probably vote for him in a couple of months when he is ready to run.

If multi-account voting exists and article votes/subs can be purchased...is there any democracy in this game?

It isn't multi-accounts, there is a website which real people from other countries get paid to vote random articles.

I was told people sometimes open new accounts just for voting. I've seen the vote/sub website. I completely disagree with it. An article about paper could top an important announcement purely based on whoever throws the most money around.

Welcome to eRepublik, CptChazbeard.

cptchazbeard, vote buying is right whenever TUPs does or gets an advantage, the same with multis.
Great article, appleby-minecrazing instead.

Voted! Now pay me

Alphabetis, regardless of who gets the advantage I disagree with it. It devalues achievements within the game and demoralises newer players. I think if one party buys votes the other will do so, therefore devaluing the input of the average player (100 purchased for one article, devalues 100 genuine votes for another). I just think it is something that needs to be stamped out.

@Viridi. Thanks for saying welcome 🙂 I know it's almost an accepted part of the game and that I'm a nobody. But I'm determined to try and stop this bollocks. It misrepresents things and discredits the game as a whole.

Appleby keeps moving up in my list of top-ten-eUK-coolcats

I laughed at this. I genuinely disagree with vote buying, and its sad to see either side use it.

Lets have a bought vote free election!

At least their articles don't lack content. Meow

Talon for Cp 🙂

The game puts a 'shelf-life' of 3 days on an article and if you want to maximise the coverage then you want it to spend as long as pssible in the top 5.

Therefore to do that you pump it with 'votes'

'votes' do not imply any support or agreement with the message (even in the old days it was largely a tribal affair) and until/if the game introduces an 'unvote' or 'thumbs-down' button then its use as an indication of the quality of the content can be ignored (as SHA demonstrates here)

TL😉R

"Don't blame the player, Blame the game"

Or blame the player who plays the game like this

Aye because you can, you should? What next?

We all know that votes have been bought for every article in the top 5 at the moment in order to increase coverage, and Alfa is right it doesn't indicate article quality, but some people are trying to suggest that their coverage is indicative of their popularity as a way of persuading people that they have more backing than they do whereas their articles only get as many "real" votes (indication of support) as any average article. That's wrong.

This article was more a satire as to how easy it is to simply 'block out' the top 5 regardless of content

And, of course, the opportunity to remind people there are 2 candidates 😛

>"but some people are trying to suggest that their coverage is indicative of their popularity....."

I can't recall any player or group going "zomg! 500 votes cos we are awesome and right" so who is 'some people'?

appleby, you are right to support openly for fav candidate, but please, just admit it: you 'd rather have Talon as President.

UKRP vote buying on behalf of their masters. Pathetic considering they used to be a strong independent party.

Also Danie i stumbled across an article where you admit vote buying yourself and encourage it. Hypocrisy at its finest...you are well suited to TUP sir.

Want the link? So we can all enjoy this moral high ground you occupy when condemning others for article vote buying?

CptChazbeard - I agree but sadly it is deemed acceptable when a TUP CP,, TUP PP and other senior TUP figures buy votes for articles and not acceptable to others. Its this hypocrisy that has lead to a surge in support for parties advocating change.

TUP, UKRP - Do as we say not as we do.

Buying votes is a 'gamey' tactic I'm therefore encouraged that the 'other lot' are doing it as it shows they haven't forgotten how to wring advantage out of the game.

So you voted YOUR newspaper rather than your candidiates? Someone wants attention!

I gave up complaining about vote buying a while ago. If someone annoys you you ask them to stop, if they keep doing it you annoy them back.

I thought that the voting website screened out low quality articles!

But how can you as a senior TUP figure complain about vote buying when you encouraged it before and admitted to doing it Danie?

Surely the message you as a senior TUP figure are sending out is one of 'do as i say not what I do'

May I quote you from your article before posting the link Danie?

''So, if you want to be elected, consider using this link to buy your votes. It's pretty popular, I've voted for three presidential manifestos on it already today, and been paid 9 GBP each for them : D ''

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/free-money-buying-votes--2026127/1/20

So your saying article vote buying is okay as long as its for a cause you believe in?

So you voted YOUR newspaper rather than your candidiates? Someone wants attention!

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allotafuntz, it makes sense, the "original" articles are now at least one day old, investing in it yields one more day of attention, referencing will yield two days, one day more . It'd haven been better to copy the entire article, but that's too advanced for some kind of people ( and it would be bolder ).

I will not take lectures from UKPP/NE grandees on 'how to play the game'

Fact remains I individually support Talon for CP, was disgusted that the top 5 was bought out by the rfeist cabal, and decided to voice an alternative opinion.

To make it clear how little content you need nowadays, I only bothered with 2 lines

take the lectures from TUP grandees, instead, Mr. Instead. ( guess, Minecrafting is the name).

Talon Karrde once breast-fed an injured goose back to full health

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