Please Help My Friend
My friend has entered a competition to have an aussie cricketer come to her house on Australia day. While it may not seem like a big deal to most of you, it would be huge for her and her family. She's the mother of 4 kids, two of which are still not at school, and one who is special needs. If you can possibly help, all you need to do is open the following link and click vote. You can also share the link on your FB page if you have one.
http://thisismybackyard.com.au/gallery/875d868a05d6c3f0fb55a2a50ece5039e4293e8c
Thanks so much for taking the time out to do this. I really hope she wins this prize. During the devastating floods last year, she dropped everything to work in her community helping others less fortunate. She turned her house into a second hand depot, taking in donations and helping to sort and distribute. She also baked like there was no tomorrow cooking for those who couldn't.
I don't know a single other person who deserves a little treat more than this woman.
voted. tell her random guy from the internet said good luck.
Done.
Entries close midnight 20th January 2012.
That'll be Australia time (one of them, in summer we have five), roughly 6am on the 19th USA time.
Thanks guys. :) It will be so totally awesome if she wins this comp. She's only about 300 votes behind the winner, so maybe she might pip him at the post if she's lucky. :)
Dazza says that now the competition has been 'Cellarized', it'll go to a million. He has more faith in you guys than I do I think. lol
trac and griff, she says thanks and lots of other very grateful stuff. She's very excited now. :)
well it's gone up by several dozen while I've been watching, so I reckon you'll do it. Yes, I voted. Won't seem to let me vote more than once though ;)
Yeah...funny...I noticed that. But I wonder...
Ha. Clear browser history :p
Vote fo Chainsaw Jones.;)
She's 64 ahead. Come on people.
It seems to have gone a bit viral since the kids started on Facebook. Lol. Now she's worried about getting disqualified. I don't think that's possible though. She hasn't done anything wrong.
Well. They'd have to go looking at ip numbers. And my guess is every single high scoring garden on there has people making multiple votes. None of which is the responsibility of the contestant. It's the worldwideweb. If their systems can't secure single vote only, that's their problem.
As long as the contestants haven't been doing it.
Likewise, there is no rule there saying that you have to be a local to vote. It's a webpage, and the contestants have every right to tell people about it.
(I've noticed it going up in little chunks. There's a 500 vote cushion now ;p)
It's the teenagers. Aden told all his online friends and told them to tell theirs etc. Before you know it, there's hundreds of people voting. Isn't that what fb is all about. Social networking?
Damn right.
Between facebook teens and determined dwellars, the competitition doesn't stand a chance :p
The nearest competition is about 300votes behind now. I don't know if he'll be able to catch up. He might already have used all his teenage connections. lol
If you mean that Richards bloke, he's actually over 700 behind.
She's gained about 1000 votes since you and the kids posted about it.
:lol: You're gonna have to eat crow ....does dazza need help with a recipe? ;)
Becasue Dazza believed in the power and you didn't......
Oh yeah. Well that's true. lol He's gone to bed now, but it was funny. He said he was going to bed and put his computer down, got up and went into the kitchen, then he came back and turned his comp back on. I said to him, "I thought you were going to bed", and he said, "Yeah I am, I just want to see how many votes now". lol
Again, thankyou to all of you who voted. Every vote counts, so it's really great that you would all help even though you don't know this woman. She really is awesome though. :)
hey you [insert some random comment when the only goal of this post is to bump this thread to the front page and keep it there until midnight 20th January]
done and done! Go team Cellar.
She just got my vote too. Tell her the cougars of the Celler are rooting for her! ;)
Got my vote! Best of luck to her!
well it's gone up by several dozen while I've been watching, so I reckon you'll do it. Yes, I voted. Won't seem to let me vote more than once though ;)
Yeah...funny...I noticed that. But I wonder...
Ha. Clear browser history :p
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Done. Can I have one visit ME too? ;)
well it's gone up by several dozen while I've been watching, so I reckon you'll do it. Yes, I voted. Won't seem to let me vote more than once though ;)
Yeah...funny...I noticed that. But I wonder...
the rules say 20 votes per IP address.
also... how in the world are you seeing a leader board? I can see the gallery with the votes in the corner of each thumbnail... is that how you folks are following the "score"? By my reckoning, there's no one within 2000 votes of her.
Yeah, I hadn't spotted the 20 limit. But it did stop letting me reload it after a while.
Ah well...she got my 20 votes :p
also... how in the world are you seeing a leader board? I can see the gallery with the votes in the corner of each thumbnail... is that how you folks are following the "score"? By my reckoning, there's no one within 2000 votes of her.
Did you see page two? There's a guy on there who is doing pretty well too. He's only got 1300 to her 2600, but he could be trouble.
Did you see page two? There's a guy on there who is doing pretty well too. He's only got 1300 to her 2600, but he could be trouble.
on my second pass through I did see that entry. You're right, [SIZE="4"]
GET BACK OUT THERE AND VOTE PEOPLE![/SIZE]
I was able to easily vote twenty times by using Firefox's private browsing mode. I copied the url I needed to get to, invoked private browsing, pasted the url and went to the page. I voted and confirmed my vote. Then I stopped private browsing.
Once back in regular browsing mode, I started private browsing again and repeated the process. Easy peasy.
Ha! You guys are sneaky! lol
That's amazing.
She's about 1500 in front this morning, and the others are not moving very quickly, so I think it's just about in the bag unless someone else goes viral overnight.
You guys are awesome! Mwuah! Mwuah! Mwuah!
Voted and will vote again tomorrow, just off to bed:)
Sheldon and Matt Hayden, eh? Did you wear out that WWF chap already?
I'll use that private browsing trick for tonight. 19 more votes, coming up!
Um, did they adjust the figures? I'm seeing 1143 for her and 1323 for him.....
Yeah, I don't know what happened yet. I think they took a whole heaps of votes off which seems unfair to me, but maybe someone was scamming it. I'll have to wait and find out.
whats the frikkin score? I still don't see a way to find out other than looking at every single person and their vote totals.
The 'in private' browser votes don't show an IP address, so they took all of those away.
I've just pointed out to my friend that plenty of people use in private browsing all the time anyway, and that I hope they've taken votes away from others who might have been using 'in private' browsing to vote.
Yeah, I don't know what happened yet. I think they took a whole heaps of votes off which seems unfair to me, but maybe someone was scamming it. I'll have to wait and find out.
What??? Someone SCAMMING this competition??? I cannot believe such slanderous accusations. :D
lol...I know. You just wouldn't believe it would you?
OK, I have the story now. They deleted all the votes that didn't show up with an IP, which means there were probably plenty of legitimate votes deleted too.
So, if you've got 10 mins and you're still interested in helping out, vote up to 20 times, but make sure it's not in private.
It means you need to clear your cookies after every vote, so it's a bit more of a process, but if you can do it, it'd be awesome. :)
Two hours to go, Team cellar on 1300, second behind some dude on 1990. Aw crap. C'mon guys, charge for the line. I'm all voted out.
I don't think she's going to get there Zen. She's been ripped off by then taking away all the votes that were in private. Plenty of people do private browsing these days, so she's lost a lot of votes that way. :(
lol...I know. You just wouldn't believe it would you?
OK, I have the story now. They deleted all the votes that didn't show up with an IP, which means there were probably plenty of legitimate votes deleted too.
So, if you've got 10 mins and you're still interested in helping out, vote up to 20 times, but make sure it's not in private.
It means you need to clear your cookies after every vote, so it's a bit more of a process, but if you can do it, it'd be awesome. :)
I hope I didn't contribute to a problem here with my suggestion. I will say, the reasoning for "deleting a vote that doesn't have an IP address because it is in private browsing mode" is bullshit. The remote computer system can and does know the IP address of your computer and mine or else it couldn't display the page at all. I don't know what did happen, but claiming "private browsing prevented us from seeing the IP address" is a weak canard.
Yeah, I don't want to say this is a crooked contest, but this is a crooked contest.
Yeah, I don't want to say this is a crooked contest, but this is a crooked contest.
is this you glatt?
*looks around*
who, me?
Yeah. I think it's arbitrary that they just deleted half of the votes for one person and didn't seem to do it to any of the others.
Yeah. I think it's [strike]arbitrary[/strike] bullshit that they just deleted half of the votes for one person and didn't seem to do it to any of the others.
how
I read that.... ;)
Yeah, I agree, but she's not inclined to argue the point. Such is life. I'd be having something to say, and I said that if they deleted all her in private votes, they should do the same for all other contestants at the very least.
I think it really sux to be honest, and I feel really annoyed personally because I think she's dirty at me in a way because so many votes were deleted, but on the flip side, her votes has stalled till my boys got involved, but I don't think she's really considered that.
Kinda sucks when you try to help out a friend and it all goes belly up.
Sorry for you Ali, sorry for her.
I so wanted this to end in success.
Are you saying they took away her in private votes but no one elses? Did they give justification, and how do you know this?
Because over here you can get into trouble for rigging contests.
Yeah me too. Never mind though. She still might get a prize. :)
Are you saying they took away her in private votes but no one elses? Did they give justification, and how do you know this?
Because over here you can get into trouble for rigging contests.
I know they took hers away, but I don't think she asked if that was going to happen across the board, and I suspect it didn't, because no one else's votes went down, and they should have, because private browsing is pretty common these days.
They said they could have disqualified her and all sorts of stuff, but they didn't.
I think they've made a mistake in how they've handled this, but my friend doesn't really see it. At the moment she just feels grateful to still be in the running for one of the minor prizes.
I'm thinking about sending them a letter after all of this is over suggesting that they did the wrong thing and why I believe they have.
Send a letter to the local paper... or the station who sponsors the event.
Just a quick update.
My friend ended up winning the prize for our state, which includes a visit from Matthew Hayden on Australia Day, and about $2200 worth of power tools for the garden.
So a big thanks to all of you for your votes. I think it was worth it in the end. :)
Booyeah! I'll take that as a good result. Yay Cellar. [COLOR="Silver"]And them pesky kids on that bookface thingy.[/COLOR]
Woo Hoo! PArty at HER house
I know where there is a really neat passenger ship that could take
all of the voting Dwellars at one time for cheap $...but one side is sort of damp.
I heard the cabins are kind of messed up......
But earlier, you said you were making up a ToDo list.
Maybe this one time you could include just a few more rooms ?
Bring your best mop and biggest pail.
Just think of the warm, balmy weather in Brisbane at this time of year.
Yeah, it's pretty nice here this time of year. A bit wet this week though, which is good. The lawn is loving it.
But earlier, you said you were making up a ToDo list.
Maybe this one time you could include just a few more rooms ?
Bring your best mop and biggest pail.
Just think of the warm, balmy weather in Brisbane at this time of year.
When we were talking about going down under, we meant the equator. Not the surface of the water.
Here's an article in one of the local papers about the competition my friend won. :)
Excellent, congratulations.
For a moment I thought they'd given the toddler a chainsaw :eek:
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No, he's a cricketer, not a white rapper.