I have been reading all the comments posted here with regard to the Yahoo! Buzz Awards and I understand pretty how how everyone feels. What had happened in the last four days of the voting has called the attention of some media and it's not reported on some portals. Here's the translation from VITALWARNING which I lifted from AllKPop.
Btw, please don't bash when commenting. Let's be level headed and be good TS/KHJ fans, k?
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“Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards” under fire for suspicious poll results
by VITALWARNING / AllKPop
A controversy has recently been surrounding the ‘2010 Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards’, as many fans are doubting the legitimacy of its online voting system.
Between November 8th and the 30th, Yahoo has been conducting an online poll for three categories: ‘Korean Male Buzz Star’, ‘Korean Female Buzz Star’ and ‘Asia’s Buzz Star‘.
The problem that had caught the attention of sharp fans is that the poll results for some nominees had either taken a sharp rise or drop in a spontaneous fashion. For instance, in the ‘Male Buzz Star’ category, Jang Geun Suk’s poll results saw sharp rises and falls at a continuous rate, while a considerable number of votes for Kim Hyun Joong dropped unexepectedly.
Consequently, many netizens are suspecting the poll results to have a substantial error in voting calculations.
Fans have become even more angered by Yahoo’s lack of investigation on this matter, who merely called it a simple ’server error’. Netizens commented, “The globally acknowledged Yahoo doesn’t want to be humiliated in public, which is why they are ignoring the hard work of the fans”, “I want to rebuke Yahoo for their lack of action regarding this issue.”
Responding to such criticism, a representative of Yahoo Korea explained on December 2nd, “There was a problem with the server overloading, however, we have not been able to confirm a manipulation of the poll results. We are still inspecting the reasons behind these errors.”
They carefully continued, “We cannot reveal a correct set of poll results without fully completing our investigation. We cannot confirm anything for now.”
Meanwhile, according to the online poll results on the site, Jang Geun Suk ranked 1st place for the ‘Male Buzz Star’ category for this year’s ‘Buzz Awards’.
Source: Newsen
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7 comments:
This is why we all love Google haha
hahahaha @ kttbeat... yah Google rocks!!!
anyway been in AKP, and i like a JSG fan named Kosuzu, that also reported the cheating of some JSG fans...
anyway i think it was not only HJL that seems to have problem with this.. other categories also had similar mishap...
i guess they are going to "take action now"..!!!
The fight is not over yet.
It seem Yahoo is going to average the votes and searches (in yahoo KR, TW, HK, TH, ID, Malaysia, China)and from http://kr.rival.kids.yahoo.com/rival/favor/?ac=favor&tac=view&category=1&code=201012&rcd=6375&cd=493 to determine the winner.
Keep voting and searching girls, HJ Fighting!!!
hmmm....KHJ is still...and always will be....the best
Even if they average the votes JGS still has a lot of votes polled from yahoo buzz.. how can we take over that??
yahoo sucks..I guess I am stuck to google forever..
Is there any latest news from Yahoo regarding their investigation on illegal votes? Don't you think Yahoo should update us every now and then? Whatever result Yahoo is giving later, who can tell that it is genuine? I wonder...
Just read at KHJ pinoyexchange thread that JGS's company released a statement saying that he may win/won 2 awards at the Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards 2010. In fact, they are saying that he's getting these cos of his popularity in, well, acting in don't-know what dramas. Hmm... very disappointed in his company for eagerly and hastily jumping to promote him in this manner eventhough they know that there are doubts about the legitimacy of the votes. If he really wins, I guess Yahoo and his company/fans deserve each other for perpetuating dishonesty...
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