2009 Vapy Award Nominations

[voidNIL]

It's ready!

Thought it might be a good idea to start a new thread so people don't have to dig through the old one to find the links. Pete45, thank you for having a great idea! Let's get nominating!!!

2009 Vapy Award Nominations

 

[jvapor]

Why is it when this site is tracked it shows up as 1&1 and routed to Electronic Cigarette Wholesale - China E-Cigarette Wholesale - Discount electric cigaret - Cheap Mini e-cigarette - Super Cigarette - Buy E-cig From Manufacturer ?

 

[mxpowers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rt5fCvjt0Q

 

[Birdy]

 

[VictoryNotVengence]

to late for me unfortunatly, your about 6 hours late. 8-o I hope they don't xxx me over to hard.

 

[Nuck]

What do you mean by tracked? I saw the video but didn't see anything other than the claims. Is there anyway to verify that the sites are linked and that they are phishing?

 

[Silence]

How was the site "tracked"?

 

[angjen0816]

works for me. people be hatin

 

[Nuck]

The other thread with 10 pages was closed so it could be discussed in this thread with a few posts. All that great detective work and speculation down the drain!

 

[Pete54]

This will be the last time I discuss this. Below is what I wrote on the other thread. If someone else can post evidence rather than garbage on this, fine.

1) Phishing sites try to get you to enter banking or credit card info, not your freakin' email address! There are MUCH easier ways to do that!
2) Using the tool "Whois" we can see from the link that the site is from Chesterbrook, PA. USA!! Vapyawards.com - Va p Ya Wards
3) Using GEOtool we can verify that on a map! Geotool

Now the only question I have is why and who would start such a rumor? Now I could be wrong and voidnil could be the Anti Christ, but I haven't been spammed and I'm the one getting the votes in my email to tally them up. I need to think for a bit and determine if all this is even worth my time.

 

[Nuck]

A mod here could check the IP used to access voidnil and be able to tell in 10 seconds if it is coming out of China.

 

[Silence]

I verified the whois and its coming out of PA...

 

[voidNIL]

OK, maybe I'm too laid back but this kind of made my morning in a twisted way. Maybe it won't seem as funny after a Monday of work, but right now I laughed. I swear I'm not from China. I'm from Salt Lake City, UT. I saw Pete45's idea and registered the domains with 1&1 because they are reasonably priced and I am doing this out of pocket just because I thought it seemed like such a cool idea. The site asks for an email address because I don't want people just sending in tons of votes and messing up the results. I will absolutely never provide those emails to anyone else. I had thought it would be a good idea to keep the voter records in the database so that everyone could use the same info next year but I think I will go ahead and delete everything in that table as soon as voting is done and we can just start again fresh next year.

I'm guessing what started this is that someone noticed the contact info on the site is for 1&1. That is just the company I bought the domain names from. Anyone who buys a domain name from them will show that info by default. I have no relation to anyone else they sell domain names to ... I'm just a guy in Utah who thought this sounded like a cool idea. They probably also register domain names to porn sites. I swear I have never made porn ... there were those pictures that one night ... my wife swore nobody would see them!!!

 

[AngusATAT]

A mod here could check the IP used to access voidnil and be able to tell in 10 seconds if it is coming out of China.

I normally wouldn't post on this, but I'll do it here just to clear it up.

His IP addresses check out.

Everyone happy now?

 

[Moobyghost]

I got suckered in to this last night. I have posted a retraction on the website now. Sorry for anyone who went there because of my recommendation.

 

[angjen0816]

its ok voidNIL, only a few people got caught up in the madness. anyone who checked it out could see its legit.

 

[Silence]

Ok Thanks AngusATAT for the verification. Now everyone get to nominating your favorites!!!! voidNIL, When will the polls be closing for nominations?

 

[Pete54]

OK. Now can I go back to my 18mg juice? All this this excitement made me pull out the "why did I ever buy juice this strong" stuff.

 

[lordmage]

easy points to be cleared up by the site owner please.

1. privacy policy where is it on your site i did not see one.
2. the claim of it being linked to a china supplier please find out why it is.
1 and 1 should be able to tell you.
3. list what happens when users hit submit on the site maybe even an about us and who you are can help alleviate some concerns. remember not ever one will be an ECF member who finds that site.
4. when i saw the site i got the feeling it was to do two things one harvest email address and sites to spam or devices to parody like what happened to the silver bullet . in fact my yahoo spam filter did filter it.

 

[Nuck]

Good luck with the survey voidNIL...I have no idea why you got nailed with this silliness.