Funny:)
I voted for Cian but in retrospect MUCH prefer Mister Splashy Pants!.. Hope it wins..

ROFL. I just love that name. We had a cat we nicknamed Commander-in-Chief PuffyPants.

Must be something with cute creatures and "pants".

Is there nothing the internet will not utterly ruin?

You're only holding it open for a week because you're hoping Mr Splashy Pants won't win.

If you're hoping something else should win, try adding names that begin with words like "Captain" or "the." Although, "Commander-in-Chief" has a good ring to it also.

I almost felt bad about voting for Mr. Splashy Pants...But really, its funny and it attaches a smile to a serious cause. No problem with that!

Go Mr. Splashy Pants!

in that case, all votes should be removes and start fresh as it was plainly unfairly won.

Every other name on that list is too full of it's self. MSP it is.

i think this is great both for the whales and for greenpeace. not only will one lucky whale be named mister splashy pants, you've got the blogosphere ignited with talk of your whale-naming competition! i, among a million others, have been following closely at moneyries.blogspot.com

that is too funny. i saw a Green Peace rep on the street near Union Square, in NYC this morning, and I asked her about Mr. Splashy Pants, she had no idea what I was talking about, but I think thought I was a perv.

Mr. Splashy Pants is probably the best name ever for the logo. I just can't imagine anything else now.

All hail MSP.

I saw this on reddit but didn't vote initially because I don't like the idea of the vote being skewed by a social website "attack". However, Mr. Splashy Pants is a really good name, much more personable than some standoffish mythical name.

Plus, with such a long name Mr. Splashy Pants' close friends have a broad selection of nicknames. It's always more endearing to have nicknames.

And I just thought of this: the name "Mr. Splashy Pants" makes for great offbeat/cutesy broadcast news going into the holiday season - you'll get a friendly little blurb on all the news stations plus NPR.

Mr Splashy Pants FTW.

Don't be disqualifying all the Mister Splashy Pants votes on some sort of technicality or something. You will have an internet uprising on your hands, Mister Greenpeace Pants!!!

Face it, unless you're going to go all "blue peter" on us, he's going to be called Mr Splashy Pants. Be happy. Think of all the free publicity!

It's great that you guys have a sense of humor. Mr. Splashy Pants really IS a great name.

professional gamers get Actions Per Minute ratings over 600 sometimes. 150 is low.

As a redditor, I'd quite like to see the rest of that graph, say with a day or two on either side, to see what your normal votes-per-minute looks like.

Interesting that of the list, only 3 out of 30 are "familiar" words (the ones which don't need explanation after them: Echo, Humphrey, Mister Splashy Pants) and only one of them is humorous: our favourite, Mister Splashy Pants.

Douglas

So he disabled cookies? Wow, I'm so impressed.

Make sure you change your competition page to reflect the extended competition time, it currently says:

"The voting ends on the 30th of November 2007 at 17:00 Amsterdam time. So vote now and get all your friends to vote too."

The truth is we all love "Mr. Splashy Pants." Clicking-frenzy or no, Mr. Splashy Pants deserves to win.

This is absolutely brilliant - Mr Splashy Pants will make headlines all over the world... and if he's killed it will be a PR catastrophe for those responsible.

I've been a member of Greenpeace for about 20 years now - and I voted for Mr Splashy Pants.

Umm, yeah. That was probably a script. The pauses were probably for quick tweaks or unexpected errors.

Just give the whale his new name.

Stop setting the ground work for failing to give him the name people obviously want him to have.

Besides think of the human interest pieces the news media will do when the name is selected.

Hey,
I was hoping you guys would see the funny side of this, don't think mr splashy pants can lose now though! You guys've always made me smile...

150 Clicks per minute actually isn't that many. Look at the stats of some of the people in the "Kill everyone project" (basically the idea was to click a button as many times as possible over a couple of years).

"Or maybe someone just wrote a script to do all their clicking automatically. Who knows?"

Removing the multi-clicker or not, MR. Splashy Pants is still in the lead at 72%,

I guess this is what happens with democracy in action.

Call it a day, even a one week longer voting period will not bring any of the other names to the front.

I voted for Mister Splashy Pants via reddit. And yes, i actually read the whole page and all options, but still preferres Mister Splasy Pants.

Go for Mr. Libertad Splashy Pants. Formal, elegant, yet splashy.

Splashy PANTS!
Splashy PANTS!

I sense a new internet viral meme kicking off , as big as TechnoViking or All Your Base.

all hail Mr Splashy Pants.

:-)

so you are going to extend the election because you don't like the results under the original rules?

Hey you guys should work for BusH!

Don't Florida dangle the chad of Mr. Splashy Pants!
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Editors note: Who said we don't like the results?

instead of being stuffy and stalling the vote in the hopes that some other more pretentious name wins the day green peace oughta cash in by closing out the vote and rolling out some mister splashy pants merch. alot of the people who have been ridding in off of reddit or digg would pay good money for a mister splashy pants tee shirt. heck, i know i would. greenpeace could make a butt load of money for the cause that way.
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Editors note: Watch this space...details coming soon.

ok then let splashy pants win now and stop extending the rules.

Splashy planned his campaign strategy not to peak too earlier but you are changing the tide!

Brad needs to chill...what is ruinous about a dramatic increase in interest and a bit of humour?

There are still ways by which a person can fake clicks AND make it appear as if it is from different places. That person probably used a script, as it is highly unlikely for a man (or woman) to sit and keep clicking the mouse for too long. If you check the logs and find that thee clicks are from different IPs but still follow that pattern of a click every ~.4s, it probably still is fake. (But Mr. Splashy Pants is interesting, even though my vote goes to Libertad :-) ).

And scripts could be made to not observe patterns too! I guess there are too many possibilities that the (almost) safe way is to make anyone who wants to vote have a login ID in this site, and use new anti-bot methods like typing the text in the image thing.

Hey, I clicked twice, but that was because I wanted to view the results again after I had already closed the page.

Seems like the one-vote-per-person rule doesn't work so well. ;)

By the way, never allow HTML tags for style.

The large interest in the poll surely warrants it's extention (:

I still think the winner is already decided - Mr. Splashy Pants.

It may not be that poetic as most other names .. or have a deeper meaning .. but I am absolutely sure the feedback to naming the wale like that will be much better than if you'd use any of the other names (,

And I agree, I want some merchandise. I want a Mr. Splashy Pants T-Shirt or Sticker. Or a poster with a photo of him. Or .. ahh .. :P

You realy have something good here. Use it.

There are two words I never tire of. Splashy and Pants.

You assume this is one person because it's one IP address. Ever heard of network address translation? many computers, one IP address.

Hey Whalers! All your Splashy Pants Belong to Us!

We are a rather large internet entity -- some going as far as calling us a legion; we are not some guy from Arizona. Our votes are all legit. We uniformly decided on Mister Splashy Pants and all voted accordingly.

Name our whale, network technicians!

Mr. Splashy Pants is a hear-once-never-forget name. Stop whining and go full sail with it.

um let me just say, it was an entire group of friends who voted, not just one person.
i'm among them, and it was because we genuinely enjoyed the name, and as you asked, DID tell friends to vote for the one we liked.
Why are you mad that people did as you asked? :\

Mr. Splashy Pants is the best marketing handle Greenpeace could ever have. Forgive me, but the rest of the names were exactly what you expect from Greenpeace - and absolutely uninspiring. How can you not love a whale named Mr. Splashy Pants?

Go Go Mr. Splashy Pants!!

I have to say that calling an animal of vast power " Mr splashy pants" absolutely terrible.How in the world did greenpeace let it throiugh..god knows?
Its rather dissapointing.Think about it it would that sort of name suite a whale. either people have no common sense or moral towards the whale has sunk.
please vote for something more meaningful. Think for the whales dont let a whale have a terrible, childish and illrespet name.
Thank you for reading.
--vote and save the whale from a dishonest name--

P.S. Greenpeace you let me down accepting that, I hope you will think before you act next time.

Mr. Splashy Pants is definately the best of the names. Don't assume that the mad clicker is responsible for the choice.

MSP is the one!

Whales don't generally have names. Splashy or not - they just don't have names.

The "mad clicker" (or perhaps, completely sane script) might have started it off, but MSP now seems to be firmly in the lead thanks to genuine votes.



-- Andrew

Greenpeace web editor

I'm sure the whale really cares what a bunch of humans call him...

This might be the funniest thing I ever heard of. I am proud to have voted for Mister Splashy Pants and have asked all of my friends to do the same.

Go Mister Splashy Pants go!!

I think this whole thing is wonderful. Thousands of people who would never have otherwise visited the Greenpeace website, or cared much for a an adopted whale, are now involved. They have a personal investment in Mister Splashy Pants now, and many of them will think of this whale as a sort of pet they helped name. What a brilliant campaign! I hope this generates a lot of media publicity, as well.

Folks, calm down. Greenpeace didn't choose any of the names - the public did!

I'm holding out for the official Mr Splashy Pants... Pants. In humpback size XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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XXXXXXXXXXXXL.

The "vote for mister splashy pants" campaign has been posted in many humorous sites or mailing lists, one of which I read. I can tell you that many people have taken to vote for splashy and are now interested to know what truly happens to our favourite whale already.

This Splashy Pants business is a very good P.R. coup which has helped raised awareness more than it undermined the effort with a younger audience. So please do not overact over one incident, there is a majority of us who have discovered your project that way and have read more about your programs in this words saturated over-blogged ocean the Internet is.

SplitJewel: You need to relax a bit. Unless you want this to be a pet cause for, like, 6 people, you need a name that will capture people's attention. and not just people: YOUNG people. My Splashy Pants is a funny, charming name that will get a lot more people in the door than Suzuki. That is the first, very important step to launching an awesome campaign.

Has anyone bothered to ask the whale?

I totally admire the dedication and perseverance of the phantom-cookie-eater/macro-clicker! Wow! I would love to know who you are. I hope you use all the energy and tenacity for making the world a better place. :-)

GO MISTER SPLASHY PANTS!!!

SWEET!!!

i thought you were being sarcastic with my suggestion but i just followed the cafe press link and ordered a couple of mr splashy pants shirts for the missus and i.

Hey, let's name the whale Kaimana - that way, when CNN doesn't pick up a cute human interest piece on a whale being named Splashypants, we can all collectively whine about it.

Seriously, what happened to GreenPeace actually bringing attention to things? This has become such a contrived group of social ninnys that it actually boggles the mind - and this is coming from a hippy.

Remember back in the day? You know - circumventing people on ships? Overtaking ships? Standing in the way of whalers? Boy, that sure was fun. These days we get attention by... sending... out.. mass distributions through mail.

Because a sticker is -totally- more eye-catching.

Vote Splashy-Pants. Submit story. Wait.

Get a new Subversive PR director while you're at it.

I voted for Mister Splashy Pants! I only voted once, though.

Bought the TShirt, too

Yes, I voted for MSP but I'm sad I didn't get in on the ground floor to submit a name. I agree that the other names are pompous and sickening. I want to name the next whale Horatio Holeblower.

It's historical, nautical and cetacean. :)

I'm voting mister splashy pants

Aphex - haven't you been paying attention? I'm on the Esperanza right now, on the way to the Southern Ocean, to intercept the whalers. Stay tuned.

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/whales

See the month in pictures:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/photosvideos/slideshows/monthinpictures-nov2007

If it weren't for Mr. Splashy Pants I would never have found out about the competiton, voted or written a letter to stop whaling. Hardcore Greenpeace members are at this site and I appreciate that. But you need to appreciate what Mr. Splashy Pants has done for awareness.

Go Splashy! Make a difference!

If it weren't for Mr. Splashy Pants I would never have found out about the competiton, voted or written a letter to stop whaling. Hardcore Greenpeace members are at this site and I appreciate that. But you need to appreciate what Mr. Splashy Pants has done for awareness.

Go Splashy! Make a difference!

Psh, Mister Splashy Pants is the best name on that entire list. I love the results - I just voted, and Mister Splashy Pants is in the lead with 79% of the vote, with Humphrey a close second with... 3%.

If you didn't want weird results, you shouldn't rely on the Internet for them...

I love Mr Splashy Pants, and I'm so happy it's probably going to win.

My fiance has decided it's a good nickname to grace me with, too. ;)

You might want to read this. It seems like the puppeteer wants to claim credit for the actions of his puppet.

It looks like even though you removed said students direct clicks, he automated it through proxy servers.

It looks as though you should thank him.