04.27
Time has announced the winner of their Most Influential Person in the World poll. And the winner is…
For proof of moot’s influence on the Web, one need look no further than the TIME 100 poll results. While Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao got a larger vote total (20,391,818), the runner-up for the title of World’s Most Influential Person, Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim, received a mere 47 on the influence scale. Moot denies knowing about any concerted plan by his followers to influence the poll, though TIME.com’s technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote.
I’m glad to hear that they were able to keep the hackers taking over the vote. I mean, that just wouldn’t be fair to the other people participating in it. We wouldn’t want cheaters to make someone Lose The Game.