It was surprising today that Time magazine announced that the Moot (Christopher Poole) is the most influential person on the planet.

Time - The world's influential personne poll

The Moot is the owner and creator of 4chan.org, an imageboard website. The site was launched in 2003, the website is very successful because there is minimal rule on posted comments. It is possible to post comments anonymously.

4Chan.org

4chan.org is a very successful website but not when compared to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other big social media websites.

Traffic 4Chan.org - Alexa 2009

If I believe the results of the poll from Time magazine, Moot is the most influential person on the planet…sounds pretty odd. To be honest with you before today I had never heard his name before and had only once visited 4chan.org!

So how could the Moot be more influent than Obama, Putin and even Oprah? A possible answer is through “cheating” or to be exact hacking. It is quite easy to find online scripts in order to hack the Time magazine pool, they may have used the failure on the URL protocol in order to increase the number of votes.

Script - Vote for Moot

The 4chan community would have the rest and sent the Moot to the top of the poll!

Vote for Moot

The biggest question is why Time magazine still believes that an almost total stranger can be the most influential person on the planet?