The World's Most Influential Person Is...

[hool10]

Moot from 4chan!

In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll, and new owner of the title world's most influential person, is Moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey.

Undoubtedly, many people will question Moot's worthiness of the title world's most influential person.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1894028,00.html?cnn=yes

Yes the apocalypse is here folks. There is the swine flu, a recession, now Moot, the owner of 4chan winning TIME world's most influential person award.

*This deserves a:

 

[Eejit]

TIME made it an open internet poll?

Their own fault tbh.

 

[MJ12]

I bet they just hacked.

 

[CptStern]

I read something about 4chan hacking polls? oh right

http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/

 

[Darkside55]

/b/ - Random
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.


Also, check out the first letters of the top 21.

 

[CyberPitz]

Why do they write code, build complex applications, publish graphs - why do they organize a team that is more effective than most startup companies? Says Zombocom: “For the lulz”.

Oh I lold.

 

[Vegeta897]

/b/ - Random
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.


Also, check out the first letters of the top 21.

Woah, wtf?

edit: Oh.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Wow, he's really good looking.

 

[Warped]

how old is 4chan??

 

[theotherguy]

Is it a coincidence that the first letters spell out:

"MARBLE CAKE ALSO THE GAME "?

 

[Vegeta897]

Is it a coincidence that the first letters spell out:

"MARBLE CAKE ALSO THE GAME "?

I read something about 4chan hacking polls? oh right

http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/

For once Stern posts something useful.

/runs

 

[Sheepo]

Now I'm sad.

Where did Colbert place?

 

[The Monkey]

Oh lawl.

 

[hool10]

Haha, did anybody see this? http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1883644_1889408_1889412,00.html

 

[PvtRyan]

though TIME.com's technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote

Lawl.

From Coding Horror:

Casting a vote submits a HTTP GET in the form of:

http://www.timepolls.com/contentpolls/Vote.do
?pollName=time100_2009&id=1883924&rating=1

Where id is a number associated with the person being voted for, and rating is how influential you think that person is from 1 to 100. Simple enough, but Time's execution was .. less than optimal.

In early stages of the poll, Time.com didn't have any authentication or validation -- the door was wide open to any client that wanted to stuff the ballot box.

Soon afterward, it was discovered that the Time.com Poll didn't even range check its parameters to ensure that the ratings fell within the 1 to 100 range

TIME.com's developers are indeed these people:

 

[NeptuneUK]

THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!!! /kneejerk

TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel says moot is no less deserving than previous title holders like Nintendo video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (2007) and Korean pop star Rain (2006). "I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll," he says. "Doubting the results is kind of the point."

 

[Jintor]

I think the best way to view this is that Time is doing an investigating piece into Anon, and set a mousetrap to see what would happen.