Author Topic: WOF Announcer Poll (Read 6465 times)

DjohnsonCB · « **Reply #15 on:** November 29, 2010, 09:03:15 PM »

I wonder if Burton Richardson would be interested in doing WoF?

SRIV94 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 29, 2010, 09:15:40 PM »

[quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' post=\'251869\' date=\'Nov 29 2010, 08:03 PM\']I wonder if Burton Richardson would be interested in doing WoF?[/quote]
I don't know. Do you wonder if Burton Richardson would be interested in doing WoF?

bossjock967 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 30, 2010, 12:22:02 AM »

Thanks to a Google Chrome extension called "ChromeReload"... Mr. West will be getting my vote. Every 2 seconds.

Come on guys... let's show them how ballot stuffing is REALLY DONE.

TLEberle · « **Reply #18 on:** November 30, 2010, 12:29:44 AM »

it seems to increase by about roughly twenty every time I reload. Get down!

bossjock967 · « **Reply #19 on:** November 30, 2010, 05:03:48 PM »

They must have gotten wise, because refreshing the page no longer adds a vote. Unless I'm doing something wrong, you have to vote from the poll's main page, and you can only do so once.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #20 on:** November 30, 2010, 05:58:20 PM »

[quote name=\'bossjock967\' post=\'251920\' date=\'Nov 30 2010, 02:03 PM\']They must have gotten wise, because refreshing the page no longer adds a vote. Unless I'm doing something wrong, you have to vote from the poll's main page, and you can only do so once.[/quote]
From a comment on the front page from the poll originator:

[quote name=\'Carrie Grosvenor\' date=\'Nov 30 2010, 8:52 am\']Hey everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and voting, and for all of your comments.

There was a flaw in this poll in that it allowed for multiple votes per person. Normally that’s not a huge deal, but there were a few people using scripts to game the system. That has been fixed now, but obviously the current results are skewed.

I want to point out that this poll had been running along nicely for almost three weeks before the robo-votes started, and the results were in favor of Rich Fields by a very large margin. Obviously not the margin you see in the results right now, but it’s very clear that Fields has a huge fan base.

It’s my fault that the poll was set up this way, and in the future we’ll make sure that, when necessary, the polls are set for one vote per person. If you like, we can redo this one to get a clear result – just let me know in the comments here.

Thanks! :-)

~Carrie Grosvenor
About.com Guide to Game Shows[/quote]

chris319 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 30, 2010, 07:39:31 PM »

Poor Rich must be crestfallen to learn that tens of thousands of people didn't really vote for him (he's a hit with the bots, though).

Carrie should discard the current poll because a) the tallies are bogus, and b) there will be more auditioners in the coming weeks and months.

Joe Mello · « **Reply #22 on:** November 30, 2010, 11:37:53 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'251923\' date=\'Nov 30 2010, 07:39 PM\']Poor Rich must be crestfallen to learn that tens of thousands of people didn't really vote for him (he's a hit with the bots, though).[/quote]
Unless there's evidence to the contrary (and I'm guessing some will turn up), I can't see Mr. Fields being guilty of anything other than going "Gee, I have a lot of votes in this thing. Thanks, guys."

chris319 · « **Reply #23 on:** December 01, 2010, 12:27:38 AM »

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I can't see Mr. Fields being guilty of anything other than going "Gee, I have a lot of votes in this thing. Thanks, guys."

Yeah, but you can't look at those wildly skewed numbers and not think something is up.

clemon79 · « **Reply #24 on:** December 01, 2010, 12:40:01 AM »

[quote name=\'Carrie Grosvenor\' date=\'Nov 30 2010, 8:52 am\']Obviously not the margin you see in the results right now, but it’s very clear that Fields has a huge fan base.[/quote]
Just ask him!

Joe Mello · « **Reply #25 on:** December 01, 2010, 12:43:59 AM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'251936\' date=\'Dec 1 2010, 12:27 AM\']

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I can't see Mr. Fields being guilty of anything other than going "Gee, I have a lot of votes in this thing. Thanks, guys.

Yeah, but you can't look at those wildly skewed numbers and not think something is up.[/quote]
But that would require actually looking at said wildly skewed numbers, which I can easily believe that Rich didn't.

clemon79 · « **Reply #26 on:** December 01, 2010, 01:03:24 AM »

[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'251939\' date=\'Nov 30 2010, 09:43 PM\']But that would require actually looking at said wildly skewed numbers, which I can easily believe that Rich didn't.[/quote]
He looked at them long enough to see that he had 40,000 votes.

knagl · « **Reply #27 on:** December 01, 2010, 02:21:43 AM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'251938\' date=\'Dec 1 2010, 12:40 AM\'][quote name=\'Carrie Grosvenor\' date=\'Nov 30 2010, 8:52 am\']Obviously not the margin you see in the results right now, but it’s very clear that Fields has a huge fan base.[/quote]
Just ask him!

[/quote]

Ba-boom!

chris319 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 01, 2010, 09:28:47 AM »

I don't know that he has a "huge" fan base outside of a gaggle of TPIR fans. Fans he has -- a job, not so much.

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But that would require actually looking at said wildly skewed numbers, which I can easily believe that Rich didn't.

He posted a link to the poll on his Facebook page and crowed about those ridiculous numbers. There's enough smoke coming out of that gun for me.

TimK2003 · « **Reply #29 on:** December 02, 2010, 05:57:32 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'251940\' date=\'Nov 30 2010, 11:03 PM\'][quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'251939\' date=\'Nov 30 2010, 09:43 PM\']But that would require actually looking at said wildly skewed numbers, which I can easily believe that Rich didn't.[/quote]
He looked at them long enough to see that he had 40,000 votes.
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And yet none of his 40,000+ fans ever wished him a happy birthday the other day on the GSF's Birthday Board.