The place where I am working had a holiday party at the beginning of the year( This month =) Yeah ). This year they decided to have an awards voting contest. Awards including: Best rookies, best team player and so on. The voting took place in surveymonkey (link was sent via email) and there's no one person per IP rule ( We all share the same IP, so I doubt making it one person per IP is a smart idea).

Nevertheless I was trying to have fun with it so I decided to use selenium to automated the voting process. The voting contains two categories of checkboxes and seven input textfields. The steps are pretty simple I look up the Name tag(In html, I think name tag is suitable for this because I am dealing with names) of the checkboxes that I want to select and wrote the script in ruby to look for it, textfields are pretty much the same other than the fact that I had to enter/send in the name of the ones that I want to win. What I found interesting about this was that browserstack is really slow for doing it on cloud and doing locally was much faster. I eneded up with around 45K of submissions (I don't have the exact number because I don't have access to the surveymonkey account). At the end they discounted a lot of the votes (I mean how is it possible to not raise any red flag when there's 45K votes and only ~100 employee. ) I had a loop inside the script and had a lot of scripts executing at the same time, it didn't take long since its in parallels. Selenium could come in really handy when you do input on web.