AROS gets it's first locked thread

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Hmm, perhaps you should mention osnews.com as i dont think everyone knows who Eugenia is.
To bad tough about the cheating, aros would surely have been competitive without that.

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Eugenia wrote:

Update: The AROS choice is now deleted. That will show you for tampering with the poll unfairly. It is very unfair for the other hobby OSes, for a poll that is so interesting to see genuine results. By tampering with the poll you are doing bad to your favorite OS, not good. What did you gain now? A deletion! For your interest, AROS had 5% before it got tampered

I am monitoring the polls. There is no way an option can jump from 5% to 10% in 1 minute, especially after 2,650 votes. I also checked our refferal stats, expect a small post on a low-volume forum on amiga.org *yesterday* (and not when the problem occured), there is no one linking the poll in favor of AROS. The poll was tampered (it was getting 1 vote per second which is even more votes per second that osnews polls get in GENERAL, not just for a single option!), and it is not the first time this happened. It has happened before for FreeBSD and Debian in previous polls. We outsource our polls so we have little control over their code, so there are a few times that they are getting tampered by fanatics. This was one of these times.