CAKoala Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 I'm forwarding an email from a friend of mine - Her son and future daughter in law are in the contest and could win up to $2500 ring if they win. Please follow the instructions below and vote for the Geocoaching proposal story ----- Forwarded by Diane S Vaughan/CA/KAIPERM on 12/08/2003 06:54 PM ----- "Diane Mertens" <diane035@qwest.net> 12/04/2003 07:59 AM To: -- Deleted-- FW: Vote for the best proposal story Brians fiancee entered their engagement story and it was selected as 1 of 6 to win a prize. If you go to this web site and vote for the Geocaching for love story they could go on to the yearly prize. As its a cute story here is hoping that you will vote for it. Geocaching Love Story Quote Link to comment
Pantalaimon Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 When you say "lovers," are you referring to their love of geocaching... or their intimate bedroom activities. I need to know what "lovers" is modifying. If its the former, awwwwww, isn't that sweet. If its the latter, take your R rated plea for gratuitious votes elsewhere! (Yes, I'm kidding. I went and voted) Quote Link to comment
CAKoala Posted December 10, 2003 Author Share Posted December 10, 2003 I think that it is both. Does that raise the rating to PG or drop it to X? Quote Link to comment
+GEO.JOE Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Thank you CAKoala for bringing us that story. They got my vote. Happy Caching. GEO.JOE Quote Link to comment
+Baptist Deacon Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Ok, I voted. Wonderful Story. Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 I voted. Is that a traditional cache now? Quote Link to comment
+Baptist Deacon Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 I voted. Is that a traditional cache now? Opens up a whole new catagory...... It's not a traditional, virtual or micro.....it's a............it's a..............................it's a "Lovers Cache" A cache placed with the sole purpose of proposing Marriage. Probably only works for the First to Find though...... Quote Link to comment
+Dagg Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Nice story got my vote. this cache was started the same way. Quote Link to comment
+Tiwica Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Put in my vote...It's now tied for first with 43 votes. Good Luck Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 (edited) I must be dense. Can you provide a link to the voting site? Edit: Doh! nevermind... Edited December 11, 2003 by Snoogans Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 It's in the lead! Quote Link to comment
+Johnnie Stalkers Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I think that it is both. Does that raise the rating to PG or drop it to X? You mean lower it to PG or raise it to X? Now I've gone and confused myself. Quote Link to comment
+Team BlackZ Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 i also voted. Nice story! Quote Link to comment
cool_and_the_gang Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 That was certainly a nice thing to read about! I voted and it looks like thier story is enjoying a considerable lead! We wish them luck in winning the contest and happiness in thier lives together. Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 Thought this was worthy of a BUMP. Quote Link to comment
+Team Encore Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 Bump!! This is a very sweet story - I just voted, and Geocaching is in the lead, but by a slim margin. Quote Link to comment
+Halden Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 If they win do we get a cut of the prize, maybe they could put the prize in a cache Quote Link to comment
+Webfoot Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 OK. I voted twice. Once at home and once at work. I hope it helps. Quote Link to comment
+Woodbutcher68 Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 Gave it my vote! They now have 80 votes and are leading. Quote Link to comment
+Goodguys Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 Gave them a vote. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 4. Geocaching for Love 53.2% (83 Votes) 6. Finally 41.6% (65 Votes) 2. Extra Extra 3.2% (5 Votes) 1. Truly Blessed 1.2% (2 Votes) 5. Fairy Tale A Love Story 0.6% (1 Votes) 3. The Last Straw 0% (0 Votes) It's still close. I was tempted to vote for the couple with a strange love of farm animals, but I'm faithful. If they win the wedding has to be a cache event. If not I'm going to vote for the animal lovers. Quote Link to comment
CAKoala Posted December 14, 2003 Author Share Posted December 14, 2003 Ok, we are still in the lead, but lets try and blow it out. Please add your vote to the total and we'll put geocaching proposals in the ranks it deserves!! Quote Link to comment
+Byron & Anne Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 OK I voted Quote Link to comment
+Doc-Dean Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 Looking at the statistics, It looks like you got it pretty locked up.... How sad is it that one of the stories has no votes at all. Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 I got to vote again, different ISP I guess. They are ahead but don't have it locked up by any means.... 4. Geocaching for Love 56.8% (100 Votes) 6. Finally 38% (67 Votes) 2. Extra Extra 3.4% (6 Votes) 1. Truly Blessed 1.1% (2 Votes) 5. Fairy Tale A Love Story 0.5% (1 Votes) 3. The Last Straw 0% (0 Votes) Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 I voted for "The Last Straw". Not to spite the Geocaching story...it's a nice story, but I didn't want the story (that didn't even have the owner's vote for their own story) to go completely 0 for 0. It's not a great story but it worked for them I guess, so I gave it a last place tie, rather than a complete loss. If some insane twist has Geocaching losing late in the month, I have a dozen other IPs I can vote from, so untwist your panties. Quote Link to comment
+Quoddy Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I just voted, and was happy to do so. Thanks, Keith, for posting it. By the way, I did nothing near to this for my proposal....But 42 years later, I guess it's OK. Quote Link to comment
+OurWoods Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 voted as well. Quote Link to comment
CAKoala Posted December 19, 2003 Author Share Posted December 19, 2003 Ewwwwoww!! The Race is REALLY on! We are leading with 115 votes but the second runner is coming up from behind like Seabiscuit with 88 votes. Keep the votes coming! We are on our way to the finish line! Quote Link to comment
+Woodbutcher68 Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Looks like you've been overtaken BIG TIME! Help 'em out folks!!! Quote Link to comment
CAKoala Posted December 20, 2003 Author Share Posted December 20, 2003 We are getting our tails kicked! We are over 50 votes behind since being 50 votes ahead just last night. Owwww!!! Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 We are getting our tails kicked! We are over 50 votes behind since being 50 votes ahead just last night. Owwww!!! I call shenanigans. Something fishy is going on if they had a 100 vote jump overnight. Quote Link to comment
CAKoala Posted December 20, 2003 Author Share Posted December 20, 2003 My life long career is computers and I am well versed in web infrastructures. That said, I tested the diamond web site to see how they were tracking votes. It is done by IP address. Or to put it another way, if your a dial up user then every time you "dial up" you get a NEW IP ADDRESS. I suspect that somebodies were very busy with their modems last night. BUT, we are Geocachers! We NEVER touch the HINTs decrypt button and we would never vote twice. That said, COME ON HOLD OUTS -- Here is the website address again: http://www.diamondcuttersintl.com/contests...2003/index.html Geocaching Love Story at Diamond Store Site From the drop down menu select "VOTE" and then vote for "Geocaching for Love" Quote Link to comment
magellan315 Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Come on, 659 people have viewed this thread, it only takes a minute to vote. We should easily have the highest number of votes so far on this website. Take a minute and help someone win wedding ring, it cost you nothing. And I'm sure they would post a picture from the wedding with the bride and the ring at this website. Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 (edited) My life long career is computers and I am well versed in web infrastructures. That said, I tested the diamond web site to see how they were tracking votes. It is done by IP address. Me too. I figured that out shortly after I wrote the message to see how someone would spoof their cgi script. So, every computer...er, person... in my lab just voted (holding true to my word that I would use my other IP addys to help out the cause for having voted for Last Straw with my first vote). Here's an easier webpage you can go to and just vote for the one with Geocaching in the name: http://www.diamondcuttersintl.com/cgi-bin/.../month/vote.cgi No extra clicking around. And if you have access to multiple computers, you can vote multiple times. If you know how to force your ISP to DHCP you another IP address, then you can do that too. I also think the IP limit is per diem (once per day)...so you can vote again tomorrow from the same machines, I think... EDIT: URL correction Edited December 20, 2003 by ju66l3r Quote Link to comment
CAKoala Posted December 20, 2003 Author Share Posted December 20, 2003 Thanks for the additional research. Big nope on that "Once per Day". They have me pegged at my IP even though I voted a couple weeks ago. Actually now that you mention it. I suspect that the perps were using a DHCP connection and just doing a "ipconfig /renew" before each vote. They probably had to stop when their block of address ran out (120 usually) Quote Link to comment
CAKoala Posted December 20, 2003 Author Share Posted December 20, 2003 By the way, I like the idea of them winning and putting the prize in a cache. Can it be a travel bug please? Maybe in the form of an unsigned credit card? Quote Link to comment
+Team Trail Walker Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Just voted. Great story. Good luck! Quote Link to comment
+Johnnie Stalkers Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Voted. Great story. Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 How did they fall so far behind? Quote Link to comment
+Halden Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 I have voted from home but I will do so from work as well to try and boost them back up. Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 (edited) Either the other story has a huge support network that sprouted overnight....or they've figured out how to beat the IP filter that keeps you from voting more than onces, JMB. You can vote once per IP...that means if you know how to make your computer get a new IP (it's possible on some systems...my cable modem keeps getting the same dadgum one) then you can vote again and again until you get a repeat IP. I have voted from every machine in my lab (but not my friends' labs!) and at home (my earlier per diem thoughts were wrong as Koala pointed out...it turns out my first vote was from home and I didn't realize it when I voted at work today) so I'm going to have to get creative for new ways to vote (like taking my laptop to work and exhausting our DHCP server's IP bank). I also have a few computers in the lounge....and hmm..... EDIT: woohoo, 500... Edited December 20, 2003 by ju66l3r Quote Link to comment
+GEO.JOE Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Come on, 659 people have viewed this thread, it only takes a minute to vote. We should easily have the highest number of votes so far on this website. Take a minute and help someone win wedding ring, it cost you nothing. And I'm sure they would post a picture from the wedding with the bride and the ring at this website. magellan315 is right if everyone that viewed this thread voted the geocaching for love would be way out in front. However they are 13 votes behind. Lets keep it up. This is a horse race. Geocaching for Love 42.9% (149 Votes ) Finally 52.4% (182 Votes) GOE.JOE Quote Link to comment
CAKoala Posted December 20, 2003 Author Share Posted December 20, 2003 (edited) We are ahead by ONE vote!!! Way to go team! Edited December 20, 2003 by CAKoala Quote Link to comment
Tikiroy Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Hey.....I just voted and "Geocaching for Love" is ahead by 2 votes!!!!! Let's Rally!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+Johnnie Stalkers Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Geocachers are up by 7. Straglers need to help out VOTE Quote Link to comment
+Staos Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 It's too godly for me. Quote Link to comment
CAKoala Posted December 21, 2003 Author Share Posted December 21, 2003 Oh this is going to be exciting. As of 5:30pm Saturday the race is now: Geocaching for Love 49.1% (202 Votes) Finally 46.9% (193 Votes) Judging from last months voting, I think we are also going to win most votes in 2003! Keep up the good work and KEEP VOTING! Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 I have 10 computers at my office. I have to remember to vote on them. Quote Link to comment
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