cheating on xbox voting contests?

ThaPro1998 · Jan 28, 2014

Hey there. I'm a fellow gamer from Singapore and there's a promotion going on which awards entries with the most votes with an xbox 360 and kinect set. I participated early and took the lead at 50. It took about 4 hours of communicating with my friends to
encourage them to vote. However, this morning, I checked the results and saw an entry at 50 as well. I was a little intimidated at first as the entry seemed to have lots of friends. However, I refreshed the page over and over and the votes were increasing
by 1 every 10 seconds!

I suspect that he is cheating by either changing his IP or actually buying votes online.

Is this allowed? If it is, I'm probably gonna stop wasting my time.

Participant suspected cheating : [Mod Removed]

Mod Edit: Please do not name and shame on the forums. Thank you.

:)

iEnema By Pope · Jan 28, 2014

why does the bloody voting screen keep resetting after all the votes are in?

It's people cheating to get a map/gametype they want. If you plug a USB memory stick into your Xbox then pull it out when voting end it forces another vote. It's banable.

IgotTSondabrain · Jan 28, 2014

Is the Quit Ban making a return?

don't forget...the voting system is being manipulated by cheaters as well. as soon as they see they aren't going to get the map/gametype they wanted, they (i ain't gonna explain how they do this. showing it will get me banned/ deleted from these posts) start
cheating the voting system and the load failure screen shows and we have to vote AGAIN

onyxishere · Jan 29, 2014

Some promotions don't care while others do. You would need to contact the promoter if you have suspicions of cheating. They are the only ones who will be able to determine it.

DevilTarsal FU · Jul 27, 2015

[Mod Removed - Please don't name and shame, even through YouTube videos.] please ban this player because people report him and microsoft do nothing

Misses Quinzel · Nov 3, 2018

Hey there, DevilTarsal FU! This thread is over a year old. Please report that user through the console. If you need assistance with any other support issue, please post up a new thread detailing what you're running into and troubleshooting you've completed.
This way our community can get you the individual support that works best on the forums.

Misses Quinzel

Hey there, DevilTarsal FU! This thread is over a year old. Please report that user through the console. If you need assistance with any other support issue, please post up a new thread detailing what you're running into and troubleshooting you've completed.
This way our community can get you the individual support that works best on the forums.

onyxishere

Some promotions don't care while others do. You would need to contact the promoter if you have suspicions of cheating. They are the only ones who will be able to determine it.

DevilTarsal FU

[Mod Removed - Please don't name and shame, even through YouTube videos.] please ban this player because people report him and microsoft do nothing

DLYRICAL

That will only work if it gets enough votes though. Its a popularity contest over there

SuppliedLamb85

Look at the entry creatind by my father
www.xbox.com/.../myxboxdreamhamper

He spent so much time and energy in getting his friends to vote for him (about 200) and all of a sudden, within a few minutes, his votes increased manifold(about 1000). Some malicious person deliberately did it so as to disqualify my father.

Indeed, the entry was removed from the leaderboards(presumably by the contest team).

Basically actions of some moron cost my father, cost us, and all the precious time and support from friends was wasted. No one even cared to check why and how was this happening.

I've given up now, its only 2 and a half hours before the contest ends. All is see is entries getting deleted and being recreated. Genuine participants are suffering at the hands of a few cheats!!!

cheating on xbox voting contests?