The "Miracle" Mod in the 1-2 league

[Sardon]

Whoever runs this site should remove him. I voted on all battles (after signing up and then not getting a battle because I'm new so I do a topical battle on the forum), and then he tells I'm guessing his friend Knoxville not to worry, none of the new votes are counting against him. It's clear fuckery.

Who runs a league or website like this? That's not fostering community, or activity, it's punishing it. If my votes don't count, I'll go back to the Twitter league.

[Virbius]

You do realise he’s giving his time to run the league for the community? It must seem like a thankless task sometimes. It’s common practise not to accept votes from new accounts so as to stop people sockpuppeting and making alts to vote for themselves, don’t take it personally. I expect you’ll get a battle when the new ones go up, chill out.

[Sardon]

I voted on all the battles in that league though, and since I didn't have a battle I can't vote for myself

It's only thankless if you do a shitty job

[Virbius]

Yeah but you could potentially be an alt account of one of the people who you voted for, or any enemy of one of the people you voted against. I doubt you are, but I think it’d apply to anyone in your position so as I said don’t take it personally. Voters are generally appreciated, be cool and reasonable and I expect you’ll be given a battle in the next round.

The last round went up like 5 days before you signed in, you’ll just need to be patient. It does seem slow at the moment but that’s down to the user base. You got any practical suggestions for how to reduce instances of sock puppet account voting, other than a probationary period for new members or whatever?