{"id":21083,"date":"2014-06-09T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2014\/06\/09\/winner-of-the-photo-of-the-day-may-2014-r1454\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:01:25","slug":"winner-of-the-photo-of-the-day-may-2014-r1454","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/winner-of-the-photo-of-the-day-may-2014-r1454\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of the Photo of the Day, May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voting’s all done and our May winner has been chosen! Congratulations to Grebel for his shot “Between the tapes”.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/media.thehubsa.co.za\/forum\/uploads\/gallery\/category_11\/gallery_17843_11_214621.jpg<\/span><\/p>\n

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The result and an audit of the votes<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you were following the voting the winner announcement may be somewhat of a surprise. After the voting closed on Friday we did a quick run through votes to ensure no foul play. In the process we discovered a few suspect votes. Upon further investigation we found no less than 34 fraudulent votes. I.e. where one individual used more than one account to cast a vote. This of course had a significant impact on the outcomes of the vote.<\/p>\n

As at 12pm on Friday the top 5 were as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. 09 May 2014: Wits Wall Riding, the best playground in JHB – 66 votes
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  2. 25 May 2014: Between The tapes – 63 votes
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  3. 01 May 2014: Rail or Fail – 41 votes
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  4. 19 May 2014: Greg Minnaar on the rocks – 37 votes
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  5. 22 May 2014: Max the Weimaraner and Single Track! – 35 votes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After removing the duplicate votes the final standing looked like this:<\/p>\n

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    1. 25 May 2014: Between The tapes – 56 votes
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    2. 09 May 2014: Wits Wall Riding, the best playground in JHB – 35 votes
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    3. 19 May 2014: Greg Minnaar on the rocks – 33 votes
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    4. 22 May 2014: Max the Weimaraner and Single Track! – 33 votes
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    5. 01 May 2014: Rail or Fail – 29 votes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      While there were one or two chance takers voting more than once (people with existing duplicate accounts for business \/ personal use), there was one individual who racked up 30 fake votes. We’re still investigating and connecting the final dots, but will make an announcement regarding further action soon.<\/p>\n

      Going forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Moving ahead we’re rethinking our approach to the competition. Unfortunately the public vote is open to manipulation, whether that be in the form of fake votes or simply a case of who can rally the most support.<\/p>\n

      At this stage we’re looking at an independent panel of 5-10 judges to select a monthly winner. However I’d appreciate any comments in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Voting’s all done and our May winner has been chosen! Congratulations to Grebel for his shot “Between the tapes”. http:\/\/media.thehubsa.co.za\/forum\/uploads\/gallery\/category_11\/gallery_17843_11_214621.jpg \u00a0 The result and an audit of the votes If you were following the voting the winner announcement may be somewhat of a surprise. After the voting closed on Friday we did a quick run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27,4837,4899],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotions","tag-gopro","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-pod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21083"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}