STEVENS CAMPAIGN TAMPERED WITH BY PFEIFFER
Gnilraps
Department of Political Corruption
Day 1,566 of the New World
4 March 2012
STEVENS CAMPAIGN GETS BAD NAME THANKS TO PFEIFFER'S MANIPULATIONS!
One of the key factors which influences the hundreds of "two-clickers" and newer players when they determine for whom to vote in a Country President election is the Political Party endorsements each candidate receives. I can remember my early days as a player, before I knew any one candidate from the next, I was influenced if 10 parties endorsed one candidate and only 2 parties endorsed another.
Knowing this, a group of high-ranking players - lead, most likely by Pfeiffer himself - devised a plot to manipulate the endorsements in this March 5 election.
In the February election, this same group had only gathered support from 4 Political Parties.
A screenshot of last month's top two candidates and the number of supporting parties.
A quick look at the 11 parties supporting Oblige last month shows 3 in particular that begin our investigation into the party tampering which Israel Stevens likely knew nothing about.
It is important for the younger players reading this to understand that it is the privilege of a Party President to establish his party's Presidential endorsement. So controlling a large number of Parties became a core piece in the effort to defeat Oblige. Notice, I did not say "winning a large number of endorsements", but taking over by sneaky political means as many parties as possible.
No fewer than 6 Political Parties were taken over, all following a similar pattern, all 6 of which have endorsed Israel Stevens for President. At least three of these, the first three mentioned, were specifically targeted for this indecency by Pfeiffer and his gang.
1 - A no-name (possibly multi-account?) Citizen joins the party and runs for Party Presidency.
2 - Other citizens join that Party throughout the day on Party election day to cast their vote for the no-name candidate.
3 - The no-name candidate wins.
4 - An anti-Oblige campaign operative with high Experience Points joins the party.
5 - Within days the no-name "Party President" leaves the party, which by game mechanics automatically passes the Presidency off to the party member with the most Experience Points.
6 - The Party's Presidential endorsement in now secure for the Israel Stevens Presidential campaign - completely regardless of the erstwhile wishes of the actual members of that Party.
Let's look at each party in question.
The first of these is the Technocratic Party of America.
1 - John Musser, an unknown and inactive Citizen who was placed in this party specifically to run a PTO (Political Take-Over).
2 - 8 votes were cast by members who only just joined the party to vote. Previous elections in this party saw only 2 votes cast on election day.
3 - "John Musser" wins 5 - 3 over longtime Party President Tiamati.Magick
4 - Vanek26 joins the party - having higher experience points than Tiamati.Magick.
5 - "John Musser" leaves the party, automatically passing the Presidency to Vanek26.
6 - The Technocratic Party of America (which was renamed "Israel") "endorses" Israel Stevens.
Scandal #1.
The Party formerly known as the Pickle Party - started and overseen by longtime upstanding citizen Thedillpickl is our next party under examination.
1 - Relatively unknown citizen "Pickled Pete" joins the party to run a PTO.
2 - 23 votes were cast by members, most of whom just joined the party to vote. Previous elections in this party saw only 8 and 9 votes cast on election day.
3 - "Pickeld Pete" wins 12 - 11 over legitimate Party President candidate dabestof
4 - Henry Arundel joins the party - having higher experience points than anyone else in the party.
5 - "Pickeled Pete" leaves the party, automatically passing the Presidency to Henry Arundel (aka Pfeiffer).
6 - The Pickle Party (which was renamed "UNITY") "endorses" Israel Stevens.
Scandal #2.
The Party formerly known as Kria is our Kween is our next subject.
1 - Relatively unknown citizen "Frankrider" joins the party to run a PTO.
2 - 9 votes were cast by members, most of whom just joined the party to vote. Previous elections in this party saw only 1 and 2 votes cast on election day.
3 - "jFrankrider" wins 6 - 3 over legitimate Party President candidate (and Oblige cabinet member) Ralph Ericson
4 - GoalieBCSC joins the party - having higher experience points than anyone else in the party.
5 - "Frankrider" leaves the party, automatically passing the Presidency to GoalieBCSC.
6 - The Kria is our Kween Party (which was renamed "THROUGH") "endorses" Israel Stevens.
Scandal #3.
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A pattern emerges.
The same pattern was observed with three other parties, although it is not clear if they were part of the Pfeiffer plot, In the case of the Top Gun party, rainy sunday spoke to me privately and assured me that she was not involved in any way. The other three parties which underwent the same odd pattern last term are these:
In the "Top Gun" Party, unknown "TedBarnes" won the PTO making way for rainy sunday.
In the "Project Mayhem" party, unknown Citizen "Ambrossina" won the PTO making way for Inwegen.
And one other party possibly fits into this same pattern, Bennosuke wins on election day (he personally PM'd me asking for me to send votes to prevent a PTO by Cartman), only to step aside for Alexander_Auctoritas to take over the SEES Brotherhood Party.
At one point, five of these parties had renamed themselves as follows:
ISRAEL
STEVENS
UNITY
THROUGH
STRENGTH
Such hubris. They are not even hiding what they've done.
The last (chronologically first, actually) scandalous affair to take shape involves the ludicrous campaign by chickensguys. Those who know chickensguys know that he has a reputation as a troll and has also distinguished himself with his poor grammar and meandering forum posts.
However, after joining the recently named "Marijuana Party", he declared his candidacy for President, and was immediately publicly supported by many of those in the anti-Oblige crowd. The first obvious tip-off that the chickensguys "campaign" was being doctored by someone else was the fact that his campaign articles were written with decent grammar and spelling. Obviously NOT the work of chickensguys.
The obvious ploy was to capture the Marijuana Party endorsement thus weakening the Oblige campaign further.
The chickensguys plot was also successful as he has been endorsed by his party.
As of election day, chickensguys changed his avatar to read, "Vote for Israel Stevens."
Those who manipulated chickensguys in this way show how little respect they have for him or for anyone else.
This election is clearly being manipulated, I believe by Pfeiffer.
16 Shells would like the public to know about all of these shenanigans prior to casting their votes.
It is my opinion that while these political tactics are savvy, well-planned, and potentially successful, they are also indicative of a lack of respect for the Citizens of America.
I strongly discourage all my readers from voting for Israel Stevens for President, not because Israel Stevens would make a bad PoTUS but because of the rotten eggs he unfortunately picked up along the campaign trail.
I hope Israel Stevens will get another chance to run, and I hope next time he does so with great distance between himself and those whose disrespectful actions have given his campaign a bad name.
Lastly, I have just completed a rewriting of much of this article after the day's events made it increasingly clear that Israel Stevens himself had nothing at all to do with these tactics.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled clicking
Comments
Voted for Truth; Thank you for publishing this Gnilraps.
dirty dealings abound, and to think i respected some of those people.
I guess things like this are why Oblige wouldn't fire you.
"longtime upstanding citizen Thedillpickl "
He he, I'm upstanding! Thanks Gnilly. Odd thing is, I was going to support Israel this time. More to report later in my own article.
Damn. Dirty tactics, although I'd like to hear their side of the story.
Really Gnil? I honestly, thought that you had a lot more integrity than this.
I had nothing to do with these PTO's, and they are very unfortunate, as I have explained to Many of the parties original owners, including Tiamati. Why would I PTO Kria's party? She is one of my best friends in game.
This is an unfortunate situation, that is not under my control. I didn't ask for it, nor did I condone it. And I have pledged AMP voters to help these parties return to their rightful owners.
Etheris, their side is having to do silly little things in order to get elected because pfeiffer isn't popular anymore.
And what? We expected politics to be clean because this is a game?
Please we are all humans and no matter what and no matter where politics will be dirty.
i've known Israel Stevens in ST6 ...... i don't think he did that, and neither do you "This election is being manipulated, I believe by Pfeiffer." (your words)
so what does that have to do with Stevens ? ask Pfeiffer ... maybe he just want revenge on Oblige for something idk what the hell it is , or maybe it was 1 of the other 4 or all of them ......... but my vote is still going for Stevens, he deserves it.
Nothing changes
The people of this country do not need "all right". We need a PoTUS to piss excellence at every waking moment! That is why I am voting for Israel Stevens tomorrow.
do not vote for cCc Oblige cCc 🙂]
Ok coulda cut to the chase and wrote this:
'This election is being manipulated, I believe by Pfeiffer."
I would believe that because it's Pfeiffer.
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@Jon Malcom +1 xD
idk Vanek doesn't seem so innocent as well xD
he has a motivation .... which is last month ..... if u remember it .....
This isn't new or a scandal, this has been done since V1 so this squawking is pretty pointless.
Kudos! I never even noticed the party changes. and did you know those who were part of that scandle were USWP? food for thought kids.
Jokes on you (everyone) anyways, I was going to go for isreal just for the giggles as we oblige has done a fabulous job, just need someone with a fresh mind. its like rotating the crop, if you dont rotate the crop every year, your garden well shit.
in erep, if you don't rotate your political figures, the political positions will "feel" crappy.
Anyways.......
fine news that sure opened my eyes.
Get on my level.
Ball So Hard University, class of 2007 represent!
Glad to see you could show up for work before the end of the term.
o wai- this isn't work...
Gnilraps, your pathetic posturing is as transparent as it gets. Keep scrambling like the sewer rat you are.
Don't you have a Pumpkinette to bully? Or a Kara Beth to delete? Or maybe you could accuse another straight player of account sharing? Your word is worth jack and shit, you lying lazy windbag.
Screencap this truth. ♥
Oblige and his lackies like Leroy are using illegal mass mailers to pm parties like the AMP that voted for Israel Stevens in their primary, and using lies and libel to scare people into voting for Oblige.
So, pot kettle.
Only one of us broke the ToS.
RainySunday ♥
*applause*
I think rainy just won.
Sunday is winning.
"A no-name (possibly multi-account?)"
As it turns out most eRepublik players are no namers, 99% of your election base is no namers. It's not too far fetched to think that they just assigned a trustworthy player the task of running. Not everything can be blamed on multis.
@Rainy; you should run for PotUS next month, I'd vote for you in a heartbeat.
@Henry; I suspect most would rather share a tub with an electric eel before sinking to your level.
Facts = facts.
Glad to see you could show up for work before the end of the term.
o wai- this isn't work...
Gnilraps, your pathetic posturing is as transparent as it gets. Keep scrambling like the sewer rat you are.
Don't you have a Pumpkinette to bully? Or a Kara Beth to delete? Or maybe you could accuse another straight player of account sharing? Your word is worth jack and shit, you lying lazy windbag.
Screencap this truth. ♥ X2
"Facts = facts." and I have them on you silent_G
I think I'll just sit back and enjoy these fireworks.
Carry on.
The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room.
TOP GUN
The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room.
TOP GUN
The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room.
TOP GUN
I think I'll just sit back and enjoy these fireworks.
Carry on.
x2
The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room.
TOP GUN
eUSA politics confuses me.
Everyone seems to be applading Rainy, however she has failed to address one single salient point (and much hard work on a cold audit trail) on Gnilirap's part and she simply places a negative politcal pact ad...akin to the eUSA women's "free conraception demands"...here the guys really missed the boat..they should have asked for free econdoms instead.
The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room.
TOP GUN
Brilliant manipulation through game mechanics. I don't care who wins but the effort put into this plan is admirable.
i can honestly say i saw this coming weeks ago when those parties were all taken over
nice expose gnilraps
The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room.
TOP GUN
voted
why oblige?
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/why-quot-oblige-quot--1981046/1/20
well organized... orchestrated, even.. from Pfeiffer to the Troll Patrol and every loyal power player in between.
I've got to wedge my nose back in here. I personally don't believe Israel knew about this. Stop and think people. Anyone that knows me will tell you that I've got a big f'ing mouth and if someone pisses on me I will use it. Coincidence that Henry "Pfeiffer" Arundel is now the party president on the Pickle Party (renamed the "Unity" party)? I think not. Henry knew I would scream bloody murder when I saw him take over as party president. And what's happened since?
> Israel Stevens is implicated in a conspiracy.
> Players pointing fingers at each other.
> All kinds of posturing.
No, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the purpose of all this is just what we see in the comments above. Henry want's into POTUS. How you ask? Buddying up to people and tricking them into believing he has their best interests at heart. Divide and conquer. Keep others off balance. Trust me, Henry is a lot smarter than PTH but has the same overwhelming desire for control and power. Be warned.
I find it hilarious that people think taking over empty parties is:
1) A new thing
2) A 'scandal'
It's been common practice in the eUSA since 2009. Find a real scandal to write about.
well organized... orchestrated, even.. from Pfeiffer to the Troll Patrol and every loyal power player in between
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@Cerb, that would be true. It is not new. Like I said, I don't believe it is a true "scandal". I believe this is a deliberate attempt of Henry Arundel to manipulate people and drive a wedge between them. Henry doesn't play for 'fun' in the typical sense of the word. He has said before, many times, that the only reason he plays eRep is to totally dominate it. Playing a campaign worker for Israel Stevens is just a role he is playing to achieve his true goal, POTUS. He won't be satisfied until he achieves it.
interesting
jawn
at least you're having some fun overder
BeDva +1
Gnilraps o/
Ahahahahaha they changed all the names back to normal. Oh you guys are so silly.