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"The same problem exists with polls on the Internet as with quotes on the internet." — Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was misquoted, or least he said so in his Geocities page.

Anyway, how stupid is Time to fall for this, unless they are doing it for the traffic and clicks?

Are you sure? His Wikipedia page has that quote on it.

It's in bad taste to edit one's own Wikipedia page, even if there is an error.

Fall for what? Did you read the link?

Yes I read it. Apparently the only reason they do the useless and manipulated web poll is for clicks and hits.

If you read the first letter of each name on the results list, you can see it spells "KJU Gas Chambers" (KJU being Kim Jong Un). There were 2 or 3 threads on 4chan about what to spell this year. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...

Time could've changed the way they hold a poll, but didn't. This is an advertisement stunt, nothing more.