EA is at it again

[Canadamus Prime]

So what have they been doing, I can't really tell from the pics.
From what I can tell they have been using spam bots to make votes for their petitions? What did they do it on? More info would be nice.

Going with the assumption that they did indeed use spam bots to get votes for their petitions then I can't even say I am surprised. EA just keep doing stuff like this, it's as if they think it's a contest or something.

Pretty much this. All I can make out is that spam bots are involved. I don't know what the petition was for or any other details. Although this does raise concerns about the legitimacy of online petitions. Also can't say that this makes me want to start buying EA published games again.

It took me awhile to, but, from what I can garner from the posts on the thread, this is a petition that urges EA and company to not cave into anti-homosexual demands to remove homosexuality from their Bioware games. So, assuming this is their bots, this is essentially the equivalent of a standing President stuffing the Ballot Box with their votes for themselves.

Ah Ok. Well I applaud them for not caving to political whack-jock lobby groups, I have to wonder why the hell they felt the need to resort to such a tactic instead of just flat out saying "No." Doing this only serves to make them look disreputable and underhanded. ...well more disreputable and underhanded than then they already are anyway.

 

[worldruler8]

So what have they been doing, I can't really tell from the pics.
From what I can tell they have been using spam bots to make votes for their petitions? What did they do it on? More info would be nice.

Going with the assumption that they did indeed use spam bots to get votes for their petitions then I can't even say I am surprised. EA just keep doing stuff like this, it's as if they think it's a contest or something.

Pretty much this. All I can make out is that spam bots are involved. I don't know what the petition was for or any other details. Although this does raise concerns about the legitimacy of online petitions. Also can't say that this makes me want to start buying EA published games again.

It took me awhile to, but, from what I can garner from the posts on the thread, this is a petition that urges EA and company to not cave into anti-homosexual demands to remove homosexuality from their Bioware games. So, assuming this is their bots, this is essentially the equivalent of a standing President stuffing the Ballot Box with their votes for themselves.

Ah Ok. Well I applaud them for not caving to political whack-jock lobby groups, I have to wonder why the hell they felt the need to resort to such a tactic instead of just flat out saying "No." Doing this only serves to make them look disreputable and underhanded. ...well more disreputable and underhanded than then they already are anyway.

Well, that's assuming this is really them. The one thing we can say without a doubt is these are obviously bots, or some sort of false vote system (such as a proxy server, or something of the like). We don't know who owns these, possibly someone who wants EA to look bad.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

So what have they been doing, I can't really tell from the pics.
From what I can tell they have been using spam bots to make votes for their petitions? What did they do it on? More info would be nice.

Going with the assumption that they did indeed use spam bots to get votes for their petitions then I can't even say I am surprised. EA just keep doing stuff like this, it's as if they think it's a contest or something.

Pretty much this. All I can make out is that spam bots are involved. I don't know what the petition was for or any other details. Although this does raise concerns about the legitimacy of online petitions. Also can't say that this makes me want to start buying EA published games again.

It took me awhile to, but, from what I can garner from the posts on the thread, this is a petition that urges EA and company to not cave into anti-homosexual demands to remove homosexuality from their Bioware games. So, assuming this is their bots, this is essentially the equivalent of a standing President stuffing the Ballot Box with their votes for themselves.

Ah Ok. Well I applaud them for not caving to political whack-jock lobby groups, I have to wonder why the hell they felt the need to resort to such a tactic instead of just flat out saying "No." Doing this only serves to make them look disreputable and underhanded. ...well more disreputable and underhanded than then they already are anyway.

Well, that's assuming this is really them. The one thing we can say without a doubt is these are obviously bots, or some sort of false vote system (such as a proxy server, or something of the like). We don't know who owns these, possibly someone who wants EA to look bad.

Either that or some extremely misguided EA and/or homosexuality supporter.

 

[Tony2077]

i'm confused who should i side with or should i even bother

 

[worldruler8]

So what have they been doing, I can't really tell from the pics.
From what I can tell they have been using spam bots to make votes for their petitions? What did they do it on? More info would be nice.

Going with the assumption that they did indeed use spam bots to get votes for their petitions then I can't even say I am surprised. EA just keep doing stuff like this, it's as if they think it's a contest or something.

Pretty much this. All I can make out is that spam bots are involved. I don't know what the petition was for or any other details. Although this does raise concerns about the legitimacy of online petitions. Also can't say that this makes me want to start buying EA published games again.

It took me awhile to, but, from what I can garner from the posts on the thread, this is a petition that urges EA and company to not cave into anti-homosexual demands to remove homosexuality from their Bioware games. So, assuming this is their bots, this is essentially the equivalent of a standing President stuffing the Ballot Box with their votes for themselves.

Ah Ok. Well I applaud them for not caving to political whack-jock lobby groups, I have to wonder why the hell they felt the need to resort to such a tactic instead of just flat out saying "No." Doing this only serves to make them look disreputable and underhanded. ...well more disreputable and underhanded than then they already are anyway.

Well, that's assuming this is really them. The one thing we can say without a doubt is these are obviously bots, or some sort of false vote system (such as a proxy server, or something of the like). We don't know who owns these, possibly someone who wants EA to look bad.

Either that or some extremely misguided EA and/or homosexuality supporter.

Exactly, we have no idea who's doing this, nor why they are. There is one thing we can agree on though, and that's that EA is going to get some flak for this regardless if they were truly involved or not.

 

[verdant monkai]

Is that even legal? Something needs to be done about those sacks of shit.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

So what have they been doing, I can't really tell from the pics.
From what I can tell they have been using spam bots to make votes for their petitions? What did they do it on? More info would be nice.

Going with the assumption that they did indeed use spam bots to get votes for their petitions then I can't even say I am surprised. EA just keep doing stuff like this, it's as if they think it's a contest or something.

Pretty much this. All I can make out is that spam bots are involved. I don't know what the petition was for or any other details. Although this does raise concerns about the legitimacy of online petitions. Also can't say that this makes me want to start buying EA published games again.

It took me awhile to, but, from what I can garner from the posts on the thread, this is a petition that urges EA and company to not cave into anti-homosexual demands to remove homosexuality from their Bioware games. So, assuming this is their bots, this is essentially the equivalent of a standing President stuffing the Ballot Box with their votes for themselves.

Ah Ok. Well I applaud them for not caving to political whack-jock lobby groups, I have to wonder why the hell they felt the need to resort to such a tactic instead of just flat out saying "No." Doing this only serves to make them look disreputable and underhanded. ...well more disreputable and underhanded than then they already are anyway.

Well, that's assuming this is really them. The one thing we can say without a doubt is these are obviously bots, or some sort of false vote system (such as a proxy server, or something of the like). We don't know who owns these, possibly someone who wants EA to look bad.

Either that or some extremely misguided EA and/or homosexuality supporter.

Exactly, we have no idea who's doing this, nor why they are. There is one thing we can agree on though, and that's that EA is going to get some flak for this regardless if they were truly involved or not.

Alright fair enough, I suppose I can give them the benefit of the doubt in this case. They won't be getting any more flak from me at least. ...not about this anyway.

 

[Hazy992]

Good thing I have my men Mike from NK and Roland from Poland to keep fighting the good fight. Stay strong, Roland.

And Olivia from Bolivia and Chad from Chad! I'm disappointed Lance from France isn't on board though :/

 

[Elamdri]

And a rational person cares about this because, well, using bots for legitimate petitions like this could destroy the powers and credibility of petitions, as well as making all points raised by activists through petitions worthless.

I am amused that you think petitions have power and credibility.

 

[mParadox]

Fred and Rick from Pakistan.

...


I'm from Pakistan and I can already tell they're bots. There's no way in hell you'll find anyone named that over here!

Patrick yes, Samuel yes, Fred and Rick? Hahaha. NOPE.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

EA being thick is nothing new but will always be the fucking funniest thing in the world assuming all of this true.

 

[Krantos]

You know literally one guy could be doing this, right?

That was my thought. How do we know this is even EA? Could be anyone who wants the petition to succeed.

More data please.

captcha: bruce lee... He would like more data too. Then he'll kick the data. And Chuck Norris. And Gordon Freeman. And...

 

[DustyDrB]

I feel like a lot of times I see one of these threads, I come in thinking, "Oh, great. Just another person bitching about something petty or just flat-out untrue". Except I come away thinking, "Yeah, that's actually a dumb/dick move by EA". This is one of those times.

 

[ablac]

It must be nice for the gay community to have EA stand firmly behind them taking their money and riding on the coat tails of the activism they have worked so hard on.

How does EA take their money?

 

[Anthony Wells]

I wanna quote Everyone not reading the comments and point things out to them :/


Could this be EA? yes.
Could it be some random person? Yes.
Do we know all the facts? no.


Stop making wild assumptions based on thread title and the pictures. Yes its probably EA but we don't know that for sure.

 

[mad825]

I'm lost and confused. Why is this poll so special? Why should I even care?

 

[Seanfall]

"Sigh" For a second I thought that they were getting a little better when they started to announce free ME3 DLC, I guess I forgot who we were dealing with.

One step forward Eight steps back. It's the curly shuffle! being used by EA...