Hopefully, though I doubt it will get rid of them all quickly. It may take a bit of time for them to realise that they are wasting their time! But anyway, we now have it covered so I'm feeling much better about it all. Took about 70 hours of work that lot.

Remember to name and shame persistant clowners ok?

What if someone for example, just goes round voting for lots of resorts at the same timem, SJ?

The system will notify us with a witty specially recorded audio message.
I will call it Tenkibot.
Tenkibot will help us smile about it all.

I have just blocked the site from someone doing just that. They had gone in and voted "Blizzard" for 10 resorts, in different prefectures. Said data never had chance to go public.

WIN for Tenkibot

FAIL for the yuki-spammer

Tenkibot. Ace.

Fine updates SJ folks. I will look forward to using it all in winter.
Otsukaresama.

Ah but is it a fembot?!

Actually yes! Well one of them. We have prepared a few silly messages, depending on what has gone on. All to make it 'fun' for us.

Looking at those weather charts thoug ---- great idea. Hopefully if people do vote in winter it will be really interesting to see those.

http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/A_TO_Z_ResortVoteChart.php?caldate=2009-10-21

We need snow!

OK....what is it with you and feminine robotics there GG? Do we need to keep you away from sleek curvy metallic objects?

I think it's just perhaps a fembot is more attractive than a manbot.

For me anyway.

I would prefer a fembot too.

Give me the manbot anyday!

a bit kinky....

New maps rock.
Weather stuff looks like fun too.

I think that the weather reporting system is a good idea, as long as people are sensible about following the rules. We know that some resorts are a bit economical with the truth about the conditions and snow depth....except for those that curiously under-report the snow depths...

SdS

We will be keeping an eye on it skidaisuki. Seeing the IP addresses and the patterns of voting is truly revealing. Anything that seems 'wrong' we get alerted and can step in if we feel required. It's going to take more of our time each day, but that is probably the cost of this working.

What would be great is if people who live near or at resorts made it a habit of taking a minute or two and voting for the resorts where they are every day. If lots of people do that, as well as people visiting, it will hopefully be very useful and interesting info.

Very nice work.

Now, all we need is some SNOW!