>>4173387Talking about vote tampering, we can start by mentioning the fact that, as some other people have pointed out, strawpoll does not filter out all of the fake votes since it is very hard to tell them apart from the real ones. I started to apply a methodology to check for possible vote tampering after I noticed that a couple of the past polls seemed to have suspicious vote graphs. I have included a few vote graphs, that I thought might be interesting to look at.
Challenge 29 is a huge maybe mainly since the possibly cheated submission was just better than most of the others and the big vote increase happened over 6 hours, but even then going from 3 to 12 votes is a pretty drastic jump.
Challenge 30 was definitely tampered with, since it went from 5 to 10 within an hour and did not got another vote after. Noticed this only after setting up voting for challenge 32, so decided not to bring it up.
The main thing to think about when trying to evaluate whether or not the votes are legit is how do the people on this site usually vote: most of the votes come in the first week of voting, while the last two are far less active and that if someone is trying to get a picture to win that someone is likely to only vote for that one picture.
Challenge 38, 40 and 42 also have submissions with huge leads, but all of those graphs largely coincide with with the other votes, making it seem like actual people voted for those.
All that in mind, the current situation honestly does not seem too suspicious. Looking at every time someone voted for 15, it seems like it was the only picture voted for 3 times, including
>>4173394 this one. And even looking at past voting graphs, primarily for challenge 40, there does not seem to be anything to indicate cheating
