Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of these floating around twitter:

TweeterWall @username one of your followers has just added you to the Anime on Twitter wall @ http://bit.ly/YUXjB , vote now!

While the idea behind the site may well be sound, it’s implementation is, if anything, ludicrous.

For example, my blog is listed, even though I don’t talk about anime. The few posts I have about anime are over a ear old, and I even dropped the ‘Anime’ from the blog title (used to Tiamat’s Anime and Manga Reviews). So why I would be on an anime wall is beyond me.

Now, granted anime and manga have a tendency to be lumped together when it comes to stuff like this, but usually the site would say so. Nothing is mentioned about it being both manga and anime this time though.

Sadly, the biggest flaw this competition has is it’s rig ability. That’s right, this is a rigged contest. Though it’s probably not deliberate. Whether it is deliberate or not is irrelevant however.

Basically someone nominates you to the wall, and then others vote for you. The more votes you have the higher up the wall you go. Sadly, the voting is pretty much rigged.

Once you vote, the background around the avatar changes, and the little ‘+’ disappears. However open up another browser and you can vote again. If like me you have multiple browsers you can vote multiple times. Now think if you have multiple computers (I have a desk top, lap top and web book), or if you have ‘friends’ help you out.

Then factor in the fact that after a short period of time you can vote for yourself all over again, multiple times, how can you take the rankings seriously. I know of several on the wall who have done this to boost their rating.

So what’s the point of the comp anymore when it’s a rigged race? How do you know if rating you see is a true rating or a rigged one? I stopped looking at it after I realised how easy it was to rig it.