Vote for Firefly (We're slipping)! XXI
POSTED BY: FlatTop
UPDATED: Thursday, January 10, 2008 20:29
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It's the Hercules Conspiracy. First noticed in 750 BCE, it has plaqued mankind ever since. The perpetrators of this menace encourage the continuation of silliness and weakness in individuals and in their society. By promoting this Hercules idealization, we must become weak and compliant to their wishes.
Don't vote for Herc. Vote Firefly.
"Yes Doctor, I took all my meds today. Why?"
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Ermmm... Been off the comp all day; the missus was home sick, so, she used the time to finish watching Blood Ties online. She did her part on the hourly vote, too.
Well, Rich announced the date of the new site transition. I'll be interested to see if we end up with three web portals for the new site, like we currently have (per the announcement, the indication is that there will be 2). I like double-redundant backups.
Heyya, Jstn! Thanks for the Dark Shadows votes (you are clicking the little Top 40 box, yes?); I haven't forgotten Surface, either (just gave ya another Nom), and, thanks much for your help, especially if you can get the Surface fans to lend a hand to Firefly (and, to DS =^[.]~=).
As for the big vote bot scandal, the perps were some Lexx voters. Although it turned out that their bot (which they were discovered discussing on their forum) didn't actually work, because they made a version which was intended to vote for Lexx AND Firefly, as well as Roswell, we stood to catch a loss on votes it might have cast, not to mention tarring us, all unknown, with the Brush of Infamy. That's related to the Chain of Command, but, not so shiny.
Rich's investigations have turned up other bots, though, and, the patterns of their regular votes are very easy for him to catch. So, while he hasn't cured internet poll cheating, Rich has come up with an effective treatment for that chronic condition.
Sorry to hear about your sick relation, Sister. However, I hope you will be able to enjoy some of your sabbatical.
Finally, regarding voting efficiency for those of us whose internal clocks aren't Swiss-made, you can download FlyVote by FlyVote. It's a timed program to remind you when it's time to vote: http://usbmicro.com/misc . In the aftermath of some of Rich's anti-cheat safeguards, it no longer acts as a direct voting interface, but, it's still a useful timer and voting record-keeper. Or, do what I do, and, buy a Timex travel alarm clock, under $6US at WalMart, which you can set forward each hour after you vote, and, tuck into a pocket, in case you have to walk away from your computer.
Catching up on the day VUMP!
-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jstn:Quote:
Originally posted by RiverFlan:
Vump and a nom for Surface. I had a monster headache and so only voted and not vumped.
Owieowieowie... I wish this asprin would work faster!!
Thank you River. Sorry about your head. Hope you feel better soon.
I am more than a little suspicious about this "poll" After a few more votes, that I KNOW of, this evening Surface is still not showing more than the 359 it was earlier. Is there a cut off time? Do we waste our votes after that? Something ain't right in the 'verse.
Furthermore, how the heck did Hercules get 56,000 votes today? I jst don't believe it. Where is this website with 1000's of Herc fans (yes, I liked the show but that site doesn't exist)
Then there are 1000's of votes for some shows which I doubt anybody has heard of. I think there is still some cheating going on that's not being detected.
Voted and nom'd anyway
http://www.savesurface.com/phpBB2/index.php]
Every single vote is counted, 24/7. The daily votes stop being counted for the previous day at between 6 and 6:30am ET, rolling over to the new day's votes immediately. The previous vote totals are then collated (including manual inspection of the spreadsheets for suspicious trends), and, finally, posted every morning at between 8 and 9am ET. They are aggregated totals, so, Herc has been working several years to reach 56k votes.
I still wouldn't vote for them, though.
-Raycheetah =^[.]~=
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Last voting for the night.
That sedative certainly did the trick.
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Important news from TV Vote:
"Greetings TV_Voters:
TV_Vote is moving to a new address. On this coming Sunday morning, January 13th, we will activate our new site at http://www.tvvote.tv for a trial run.
If all goes well, we will stay there until January 2009, when we will decide whether to continue for another year or end the vote.
If there is a problem with the new site, we will revert back to the old address, but we don't expect any problems because there haven't been any changes to the way things actually work. We have made an attempt to clean up the look a bit, but no changes to the poll forms. http://www.tvvote.tv is on a different server with a different web host, but we think that it will actually make the site work better.
When you come to the current site on Sunday January 13th, all you will see is a page with a link to http://www.tvvote.tv and we will keep that page link up indefinitely in the future. You can also use the alternate address http://tvvote.tv starting Sunday if you prefer (it's shorter.)
WHY, WHY, WHY?
The current TV_Vote site is actually a subweb of www.richlabonte.net, but it accounts for over 70% of all the traffic on richlabonte.net. We thought it deserved a stand-alone site and URL so a year ago we reserved tvvote.tv. (We couldn't get tvvote.com because COMCAST is sitting on it - they don't use it, but they got it first and they're too big to fight for it.)
Then we waited a year to see if you guys would still be here. You are, so TV_Vote gets the new URL tvvote.tv as of Sunday.
Our new web host for http://www.tvvote.tv also offers a couple of features we will try out - they have a board / forum thingie and also a little poll deal that we could use to bring back our Instant Polls. Plus we get a whole lot of extra space to work with on their server - enough to put up a picture gallery / library of our Flash banners or even stream classic TV episodes maybe, who knows?
Our commitment to another year of TV_Vote gives you a chance to fill that fifth position in the Fan Power Hall of Fame after Gunsmoke takes number 4 (in about a month, we reckon.) It will also give Nomination Poll voters a better chance to make the Top 40.
So Don't Panic on Sunday and remember:
Fan Power Rules!
:)>FLAtRich"
Anyway, between the missus and m'self, we got in 24 votes, since yesterday morning. I'll be in my bunk.
Maximum voting power VUMP!
-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
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vump and a nom to Red Dwarf
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Ray, how is this going to affect the reminder program?....will somebody update it with the new URL's???????? I'm confused.....I know we'll get it worked out.
I am old school...................................
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How the change impacts flyvote:
Rich indicated that there will be a permanent link on the current site that points to the new site. That way when flyvote pops up, you simply click the link, vote, & hide for another hour.
'Course if FlyVote wanted to really hook us up, and maybe someone mailed him cookies or somesuch (FlyVote cookie campaign anyone?), he would change where flyvote is directed to.
I haven't seen FlyVote around in a few months though, perhaps he's lurking?
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Thanks, FT.
What kind of cookies would Flyvote want? Are we talking real cookies? I can do a good cc cookie, sugar aren't too bad either. Need a addy,......:)
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