Quoted from Undertaker#59 the Admin over at the Planet:
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"Please do NOT vote for Patriots Planet in the SI poll.
If you are using a BOT, please desist.
I thought the whole thing was silly from the get-go, but we gained a couple of thosand votes today which has caused a flurry of activity. NEM is misreading our thread on this and reporting to the members of Patsfans that someone on Patriots Planet has admitted to using a BOT to boost the vote totals for us. The closest anyone has come to that is Alchy joking about using one. This misreporting by NEM is starting to cause some bad blood with some members of Patsfans. It is very simple to generate hundreds of votes an hour manually. A few people doing this can make a couple of thousand votes in a day easily.
Look, I love Patriots Planet, and we are all committed to making it the best Patriots BBS for those of us who enjoy our style here. I really don't care if we are voted #1 in this or any other poll or not. I think Patsfans is an excellent board and deserves the #1 spot. They've been doing it much longer than us, have a larger membership, have Steve Grogan giving weekly grades, and are media credentialed. I haven't had any direct dealings with Ian at Patsfans, but he does great work there, and I would rather there not be any bad blood between the boards. If this was a "fair" vote, they would win easily.
This post has nothing to do with NEM's hysterical postings about "doing whatever it takes" to get us disqualified. If anything like that was going to happen, it would have happened to the 3000 member Jet board with 300,000 votes. It just doesn't matter if we win. We don't need the advertising dollars as things stand right now. We'll continue to get new members regardless.
There are plenty of Patriots fans to go around, and each of the Patriots boards from us to Patsfans, to KFFL, to NEFans offer something a little different. If you like it here great, if you like one of the other boards better, great. Participate where it makes you happy."
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Peace to the Planet. Undertaker seems like a pretty cool guy. Don't agree that they should desist from voting, however, just no Bots (and no appeals to OTHER TEAMS' boards!) is OK with me.
This website is much more to my liking - - much more informative and it segregates entertainment/interleague/politics, etc. to separate areas so that it doesn't crowd out what most of us come here for.
There's plenty of room in the Patriots fan universe. I wish the Planet nothing but success, and hopefully NEM will call off the paratroopers.