1029 @ 4:48 Central time
1037 @ 6:39 Ct

What he could also do is start a bot program for the second place photo just out of spite.

Current vote total:

Ana 1040

2nd 571

Glad this guy was found out Ana! Not nice!

1041 for ANA!

1042

nice to see you , mary

Well, maybe all this commotion will give him the ambition to move out of his mom's basement.

Good one, Trail. I am also one who definitely had this vision of this guy living is his mom's basement!

This is so funny to me. It reminds me of this one time (no, not on bandcamp, hihi. <- did you get it, did you get it? ) when I was playing poker online, and this guy chatted to me after he lost to me and was out of the tournament. He said something like, "well, you only play with the BEST cards". Haha, it's so stupid that it get's funny. He thought I would be a better player if I chose bad cards to play with and then lose to someone else? I don't know, I just can't seem to forget his comment.

Anyway, let's hope he accepts this (as long as it's true), and that he doesn't try and stir things up.

Well, this Old and feeble Bat just managed to hobble to the site and UP the vote to 1055

[The absolute cheek of those comments is simply breathtaking ]

1056 at 7:16 Eastern time.

Mad

OMG! Did you guys see the second place one? It went up over 200 last night! He's boosting theirs!

Now they are saying it's fixed and I'm cheating. I'm pretty sure I can cover all my votes with real people!

So glad you old bats are sticking with me!

WOW!!! Whaat do we do now??? contact them and let them know what is happening to the innocent number 2??

Is he really that stupid that he thinks the software folks that are running this contest can't see his stupid little bot network? Yeah, sorry. Cheaters are usually really that stupid. So he's using his little bot network to "fix" the contest again... as I said on Ana's FB page, what a tool. I'm going to watch and observe a bit before I contact them. What a shame that something so positive for this wildlife and nature preserve has to be hijacked by this lowlife.

I was worried about this and that was why I posted the vote totals. Overnight the second place photo that Ana has been trouncing all contest long beat Ana 52 votes to 22 votes.

We all need to keep voting.

Well, hopefully this doesn't ruin things for future contests, that they won't decide it's too much trouble.

I voted...1066. Wasn't that the 'Norman Conquest' date? Maybe our army will defeat the bad guys.

Team Ana has a lot of soldiers Sorta.

up to 1067 now :O)

So, I'm wondering if he realizes that by artificially inflating the 2nd place photo using a bot he's straddling the line of a cyber-crime, which could be pursued legally by the owners of the website should they choose to do so. It's especially damning for him because since the site is run by a county administered designated preserve and no doubt has some Federal oversight, it's a government site. Someone might want to drop him a clue about real life consequences before he ends up like the Afflunza kid.

Wouldn't that be nice if they actually took him to court? Folks like this so seldom have any consequences.

Since the guy is a photographer I wonder how his customers would feel if they knew he had to cheat to try and win a photo contest. Some professional.

VERY good point, Trail. I was already thinking along those lines myself. What the little whipper-snapper might need is a little cease and desist letter from the Preserve legal department.

1074 votes for the "Old Bat Club".

I might be a geezer but it does seem funny that the second place picture gets 52 votes overnight but just 6 votes all day today.