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 Victoria’s Secret recently held a promotion asking students to vote for what school should be added to its line of collegiate products. Apparently, the company decided to screw market research and just let the people decide!
Well, whoops! Some thoughtful future engineer at Drexel made a script that moved Drexel from 1,000 votes to 5.2 million.
“We figured out what happens when you click and we made a computer do that hundreds and hundreds of times without showing anything,” [co-conspirator Tim] Plunkett said.
Plunkett explained that the script was written out of boredom.
“We thought it was amusing to see the reactions of the people in the group [on Facebook], which were primarily sorority girls … they thought they had organized it very well and were accomplishing this on their own, which was hilarious to us. It was mostly just because we thought it was humorous that people were getting excited that we were winning,” Plunkett said. [...]
A student from Texas Tech University also tried doing the same thing. However, he was using Windows and running the script on one computer, while Plunkett was using Linux and running it on 30 computers, according to Plunkett.
“Other schools tried to do the same thing, but we just did it better,” Plunkett said.
In what might show the strength of its engineering school, Drexel remains in first on the website. I kind of doubt we’ll be seeing Drexel-themed underwear anytime soon, though.
Hilariously, Bob Jones University is in 12th.
Students fool ‘PINK’ poll [The Triangle]
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