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RickVoter by cliche
Please give huge thanks to cliche who has created the RickVoter
What this is, is a browser based voting script that uses javascript. This will make it easy for anyone who is having trouble getting the other scripts to work to vote automatically, all the while keeping count of your votes with cookies.
Please note that this is still in testing, but it is quite awesome as is. You may see a couple errors from time to time, but they will pass when the program refreshes in a couple seconds.
Also just to make a note of it, I’ve intentionally set it to be slower so that we don’t spam out MTV. Don’t want to annoy them too much.
Thanks cliche - you’re awesome!
P.S. - Remember to keep sending in those screenshots!
UPDATE: cliche is one badass mofo, he has come up with a quick hack to ensure your votes are going through for firefox users.
In your url bar go to
about:config
and set the following value to 0
network.http.SendRefererHeader
UPDATE #2 - cliche, kicker of asses, destroy of worlds has a new hack for opera browsers now
Opera: tools>preferences>advanced>network, untick ‘Enable referrer logging’
Update #3 - cliche has come up with a way to spoof the referrers and so these other 2 Updates can be ignored as the script now does this natively. Please ignore.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
is there supposed to be a server response?
October 6th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
hey wait this works with ie but not firefox
October 6th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
solved with ie tab
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
October 6th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Hi, this was tested in firefox3, IE and Opera and worked, so it must have been something on your end.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
@anon:
You might want to turn off Addblock, McAfee SiteAdvisor, GreaseMonkey or anything that alters your FF in some way.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Holy WIN! Seems to be working with Safari. Not seeing a server response so I’m trying it with FF to see if there’s a difference.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:52 am
The IE addon for FF isn’t available for Mac but the script seems to be working fine. Still no server response harbl but it says “thank you” after each vote.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Disregard…I suck cocks. That *is* the server response.
October 7th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Yep, I tried pretty much everything to style that server response, stylesheets, inline styled tags, I even attempted to use old fashioned tags both inside and encapsulating the iframe, but it seems the mtv is set upon giving black text
Any thoughts on how to make this more presentable?
Also, some might say it is slow - the delay was added in there intentionally incase we start seeing mass people sitting idle on it like what happened last time. The first version was no delay and the speed was on par with the python scripting for speed but was returning a large number of 403 errors.
cliche has made a badass script here thats for sure, and I’ve requested some other little fun easter eggs to be added in
October 7th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Is it me or is the Rickvoter starting to fail? Instead of ‘thank you’ it seems to bring up an mtv logo or something now…
October 7th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Thanks for the update, will be fixed in a sec.
October 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Ok, I may have partially fixed it but it looks like a custom 404 page on MTV’s end (it’s hard to dermine exactly what it is)
some of the votes are still going through - it’s probably failing because we have so many people voting right now that we may have to dial the delays down a little so MTV’s servers can handle all the votes.
Last thing we’re trying to do is ddos MTV.
UPDATE - ok I think we tracked down the problem, the related story just went popular on Digg again about 15 minutes ago and this would account for MTV’s servers going 404 occasionally while some votes are getting through.
To compensate we’ve increased the delays a little on the script so that people can actually get votes through.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
getting a ‘forbidden’ error
October 7th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Voting now
Hopefully this isn’t detected.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Yeah, 403’s aren’t bad.
As long as you are still seeing “thank you” responses every now and then it means its all good - when you stop seeing that it’s very bad.
We’re seeing about 2k votes a second being attempted right now, so MTV’s servers might be getting overloaded somewhat, I’ll monitor and increase the delays some more most likely while we are seeing a traffic surge.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Guys, cliche just came up with a quick hack for those using firefox.
Open up the following in your URL bar
about:config
Now set the following to 0 (my default was at 2)
network.http.SendRefererHeader
That will ensure all your votes are going through.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
That’s fixed it, cheers man.
if Rick’s getting 2,000 votes a second, then that means over the 30 days then he’ll get 5,184,000,000 votes.
For those who missed that, that’s Five billion, One Hundred and Eighty-Four million votes.
October 7th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
rick 4 pres!
October 7th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
It will be interesting if there are over 6 billion votes, because if this was done one vote per person, it would require everyone in the world to vote more than once.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
To turn off referer logging in Opera, you don’t have to delve deep into a preference dialog: Just press F12 and uncheck “Send referrer information”
October 7th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
For the first time ever, Windows XP’s Active Desktop is being useful. I went to my desktop settings (where you set the wallpaper) and clicked “Customize Desktop” at the bottom, then on the new window clicked the “Web” tab and added http://www.bestactever.com/_rickvote.html as a desktop background element. Now it’s voting over and over even if I close my web browser to do something else.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:33 am
My server is on the case. Brilliant idea!
October 8th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Is this voting for the “DOES RICK ASTLEY DESERVE HIS NOMINATION FOR BEST ACT EVER?” poll or the ema best act ever?
October 8th, 2008 at 7:44 am
This is voting in the actual best act ever category.
The nominations thing was last week - which I think we won at 20 million positive to 5 thousand negative.
Something like this anyway, it was a landslide victory for the Internet which will be completely overshadowed by whats going on here.
I’d love to see what the actual vote tallies were at the end of the day (I’d even sign an NDA for it)
October 8th, 2008 at 8:03 am
We just updated this RickVoter to be a little more voter friendly, this version was taken directly from test to live so I didn’t bother updating the look of it to make it look more like the site, yet - I will do this much later when I’ve finished doing all my emails etc.
Also, this version should remove most of the errors users were reporting. cliche has found workarounds and has implemented them - I think he deserves the thanks of everyone for the most excellent work he’s been doing.
Lastly all of the inbound URL’s have been redirected to the new copy of the script so we’ve removed those 404’s people were seeing.
I will do a new post in a few hours after I’ve reskinned it and updated the site, but right now if you would like you can do a forced refresh of the window and it will work fine. Ctrl-F5 on most browsers.
Thanks
October 9th, 2008 at 4:35 am
running one in FF and on active desktop. they seem to be working fine ^__^ awesome idea, we better fucking win!
October 9th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Re. UPDATE #2 - cliche, kicker of asses, destroy of worlds has a new hack for opera browsers now
Opera: tools>preferences>advanced>network, untick ‘Enable referrer logging’
On Mac go to Prefs (command ,) -> Advanced -> Network -> uncheck Send referrer info.
Also…there’s a Firefox addon to kill redirects site by site:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953
October 9th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Also…I’ve been running RickVoter mainly in Camino and Safari (for speed) and I’ve found that you can ignore the hang-ups and error messages. The Voter just keeps at it until the votes are recorded again.
You can see this in Safari if you open the Activity window.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Oh, I should have updated this post - those hacks are no longer needed because the script now spoofs referrers natively.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Doesn’t work in Chrome on Windows:
Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.
Reference #6.e81cecb.1223536035.847e530
October 9th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
It works in chrome - that is because the server isunavailable.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
legendary!
October 10th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Arve: And furthermore, not everyone might want to turn it off globally. I prefer to keep it on normally, but can easily disable it for this site only by:
Right-click -> Edit site preferences -> Network -> Disable “Send referrer information”
October 11th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Whoops. I voted for Rick Astley 230241 times.
My bad.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Open in multiple tabs and see your votes increase exponentially for the fucking win.
October 11th, 2008 at 10:05 am
No troy - please see this post.
http://www.bestactever.com/2008/10/11/slow-down/
October 13th, 2008 at 5:05 am
OK, I just hit 12100 votes. The little screen stopped saying “Thank You. Your vote has been registered.” Instead it says “thank you” is this a problem? Are the votes getting through when it says that?
October 13th, 2008 at 5:10 am
@joe.
Wait, it’s just saying “thank you” now? That’s a good thing. Apparently when it says “thank you, your vote has been registered”, MTV ignored the vote. Maybe it was fixed?