Vote for Firefly (Was that the primary buffer panel?)! XVIII
POSTED BY: FlatTop
UPDATED: Sunday, May 3, 2009 21:56
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Firefly 3047, Jericho 3002
Auto-voter seems to be off. Jericho has stayed at 3002 almost an hour. Monday and Tuesday was going up steadily one vote at a time instead of their usual jumps. But don't quit voting!
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How does this auto-voter work? Do they just rent a botnet and use a spider to vote every six hours from each zombie?
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I don't know. I just see a regular bumping up one vote at a time. Happened two weeks ago with their 900 votes in one day, and again Monday through early this morning.
Seems to have started up again, now, going up a single vote about every thirty seconds. If it's not a bot, somebody's got no life!
(False alarm - it was just their Swedish voter getting in a burst of votes. The same one that started this all...)
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If someone had automated bot, they could run it every six hours and crush any other contenders. But here we are seeing a horde show up once and a while. We saw that over at TVVote from time to time, and it was always the result of someone getting a larger message board group momentarily motivated to come in as individuals and vote the old fashioned way.
Anyone been checking out the Jericho message boards? Seen any chatter about a bot, or mobilizing a horde of individuals who could be motivated to vote once and a while?
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I've been watching them, and there's been no general call to arms. Most of it seems to happen when one particular voter is home from work, but these runs have been different, with slow crawls of a vote at a time, fairly regularly spaced, running nonstop. I assume it's to be able to say they're not cheating by voting like they used to, but if it were truly individual votes they wouldn't be so evenly spaced...
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Hmmm, so they have a secret weapon, and so do we. But we don't know if both sides are using the same technique because there are so many ways to cheat.
The best way to level the playing field might be to openly discuss the details of the cheats, so everyone can use them. At one point, some were saying that Flyvote was a cheat.
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Something Big Is Going On
We gained 152 votes on Jericho in the last seven days.
From the TVTally "Top 25 Shows" overall score page ( http://www.tvtally.com/shows/overalltop.php?top=25),
Date Gain Jericho Firefly Votes Behind
……….…….…Daily Votes
4/22....…3…..179..…...182..…...790
4/23....…4…..178..…...182..…...786
4/24....…8…..203..…...211..…...778
4/25.…-12….200..…...188.…….790
4/26…..10….252..…...262..…….780
4/27…110….450..…...560..…….670
4/28.….30..1086....…1116..…….640
4/29..….2...1362....…1364..…….638
We gained 195 votes on Jericho in the week ending April 27 (-701 the previous week). Overall the total vote at the beginning of the week is Jericho 59,601 (57,978 last week), Firefly 58,931 (57,113 last week) We are 670 behind, versus 865 a week ago. A year ago, we were ahead. Over the last few months, we have been closing the gap.
If you turn off cookies on your browser, when you go to TVTally, you can vote up to three (used to be six) times (and for more than one show, or all for one show). You can also vote more than once in six hours (unpredictable, tends to happen early in the day, and after 6 PM). Some consider this cheating, some don't. Either you're a cookie monster, or you ain't.
At Stargate ( http://stargate-news.com/sci-fi-poll-best-in-science-fiction.html) we are at 40.6 (40.4 yesterday) percent today, and 1224 votes, for the best SciFi movie.
At BBC ( http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6517155.stm) today we are; Serenity 42.53% Star Wars 29.29% Blade Runner 16.99% Planet of the Apes 1.81% The Matrix 9.39% 42979 Votes Cast
In the last 24 hours there were FOUR votes. Terrible turnout
Back on September 5th it was Serenity 39.53% Star Wars 30.83% Blade Runner 17.87% Planet of the Apes 1.90% The Matrix 9.87% , with 40635 Votes Cast
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1. Jericho 4034
2. Firefly 4021
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