DJs caught cheating on DJ Mag Top 100 Poll

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According to DJ mag Christopher Lawrence and DJ Dan have been caught cheating for the DJ Mag Top 100 2007.

The organizers decided to manually check the votes this year. A huge amount of votes where coming from the same IP address on the same day. This was odd, so they checked it and apparently they where using the same marketing manager who used some kind of script. Both dj's claim they did not know anything about this, but both are excluded out of this years list.
Finally they realized the scam that was going on!!!!
 
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who cares - this toplist/dj-awards-stuff is pure crap anyway :-)
 
Jonny68 said:
Who is Christopher Lawrence and DJ Dan anyway,and who cares anyway?;)
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Christopher Lawrence is the top trance DJ in the US. He travels around quite a bit too... he was in Cancun, Mexico when I was there last December, he's been here in Moscow, and I've seen listings for him in the UK & Ibiza.

I think he came in top-5 in DJ Mag last year, although I suppose that's in question now!

DJ Dan is also American.... don't know much about him. Whenever I see his name I think of Moscow's DJ Dan who plays cheesey house and loves to insert a deep-voiced sample of someone saying "DJ Dan... in the mix" :? :lol:


Anyway, I think DJ Mag's list is too skewed towards trance because the trance-loving kids put more faith in this exercise than the slightly older house & techno crowds. However, I do wish there were a way to make it a useful barometer of DJs' relevance and peformance quality over the course of the year.... though that's unlikely.
 
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matt collins said:
Personally I think they should ban all DJs who spam for votes as well... (it needs to end somehow)


:evil::evil::evil::evil:
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i did my miniscule bit for decency by deleting anyone who hit up a myspace bulletin trawling for fanvotes. The irony is, the higher up the dj mag list you are, the less credibility you have, and the less likely you will be booked by underground up and coming promoters, the nights frequented by your more discerning punter. There still is a huge element of promoting going on whereby DJs seem to get lobbed onto a bill because of their placing on a widely criticised and ridiculed chart. If i was a professional dj, i know id rather be playing to smaller crowds in more intimate venues than selling out and playing at stupid nights with stupid crowds. JOOF wrote an excellent piece on the situation last year.

But at the end of the day, all this chat is academic. DJ Mag needs its vote to survive, as do all the talentless goons who appear in it year after year, therefore its not going anywhere.
 
For the record, Christopher and I outsource our marketing and administration to the same 3rd party that advised us they would handle the promotion for the forthcoming awards push, which itself is an essential subjective tool for our international gigs and reputation.

It has, however, since come to light that said 3rd party has indeed acted fraudulently and lead to the duping of the honest voting public. I would like to state that both Christopher and I had NO part in this deliberate deception, and have since taken measrures to not only sack the company involved, though we are taking legal action to recover lost monies due to the damage done to our reputation.

For our fans there can unfortunately be no similar indemnification, though as a gesture of goodwill I shall place my next cd release up for download, and make it exclusive to internet users first.

Please may you accept my sincerest apologies and my word that this will never happen again.

Hope to see you all on the Trancefloor soon,

DJ Dan
 
i know for FACT that this practise is commonplace. But since Im not a stirrer I wont name and shame. You only have to be members on certain DJ's message boards to see the blatant vote rigging that took place last year (for the record, it wasnt Tong's since Im known to post there).
 
fatphilb said:
i know for FACT that this practise is commonplace. But since Im not a stirrer I wont name and shame. You only have to be members on certain DJ's message boards to see the blatant vote rigging that took place last year (for the record, it wasnt Tong's since Im known to post there).
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How can you "see" blatant vote rigging on a message board? Are you talking about people saying "oh, I voted 5 times" or are you talking about what the marketing contractors for CL & DJ Dan did - web bots that handled all the vote stuffing for them.

Vote stuffing is one thing... abhorable, of course, but in a way it confirms their marketing machines are working.

On the other hand, writing a program to do it? That take an oversized pair of cajones!
 
fatphilb said:
If i was a professional dj, i know id rather be playing to smaller crowds in more intimate venues than selling out and playing at stupid nights with stupid crowds
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And earn half the amount?
Just because a DJ is popular in this vote doesn't always mean he's rubbish.

Btw Morbyd, DJ Dan also finished in the top ten last year, and when his name came up on the screens at Fabric everyone went who is that?
He was at the party and played in room two.. he was actually pretty good :lol:
 
Morbyd said:
How can you "see" blatant vote rigging on a message board? Are you talking about people saying "oh, I voted 5 times" or are you talking about what the marketing contractors for CL & DJ Dan did - web bots that handled all the vote stuffing for them.
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On this board in question, the DJ's personal assistant (of sorts) getting everyone to join in in multi-voting. When I challenged the practice I was told, so-and-so do it, everyone does it. We might as well too.

Its a total joke.
 
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