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Originally Posted by KingShadow

I go to school for Video Game Design, and am currently in a programming class that shows the make-up/creation of a bot. Almost every bot is just a program that's told to constantly loop/emulate something, and in order to do that, somewhere within the coding is a tally of how many times it's ran/how many times it will run till it reaches it's goal(when in some bot's cases, they never will). Long story short, it's not impossible to find out exact numbers with most bots, most keep score themselves. So Bandai very well could've gotten exact figures.(Sorry for the long explanation.)

I program at my job. BOA isn't going to have access to the bot program (if there actually was one), so they aren't going to see any incrementing counter written in to it. Additionally, the type of cheating mentioned by JDF is a completely different animal. Unless they logged the IP address of every set of votes coming in, it would be hard tracking that sort of activity. It looks as though they sort of put the whole thing together in a manner that required a minimal amount of effort on their end.

Even worse, reportedly the cookie exploit still works. If they can't lock down the problem, I have little faith that they can accurately determine whether a vote that comes in is legitimate or an abusing second, third, or, fourth vote from the same person. Hence why it would have been better to roll it all back to an even starting point.

And beyond all this, it doesn't explain how the Tommy Rangers ended up with MORE votes after the purge than they did before it.