GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1049
I
know Allen insists that traffic is better than ever but that Google
explanation does not sound right to me..and all traffic tracking sites
like Alexa and Compete show a steady and steep decline in traffic for
GameFAQs from its peak in 2008, which corresponds with the decline in
votals. --- ... |
Here's the topic where he posted about the traffic being higher now than in 2008: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/573081-hellhole/63671751 Also, here's another good post from him: SBAllen posted... Alexa is one of the worst possible metrics that you can use to actually judge a website's traffic. It doesn't track mobile traffic at all and even regular traffic is mostly calculated using their Toolbar. Just trust me when I assure you that our traffic has gone up on a yearly basis. :) --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
Luster apparently has to post all of that every time someone mentions low vote totals. --- Leonhart posting from his phone |
I
know it's been discussed before, but I was responding to someone who
most likely did not know anything about the reasons behind the low vote
totals. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
Xenogears poll brings in more votes than game of the year Xenogears for GOTY 2012 --- xyzzy |
What a depressing poll *votes last option* It's a little bit of both. As much as I wanna be with someone I'm better off alone. I'm a hot mess right now --- This space reserved for the next GameFAQs Contest! NP: I am PERFECTION |
I
am tracking poll updates for today's poll because I know it has some
interesting trends based on the same poll from 2010 and 2012. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
Boudii posted... I know Allen insists that traffic is better than ever but that Google explanation does not sound right to me..and all traffic tracking sites like Alexa and Compete show a steady and steep decline in traffic for GameFAQs from its peak in 2008, which corresponds with the decline in votals. Post archiving happened in early 2008 - the Google explanation makes a lot of sense. LeonhartFone posted... Luster apparently has to post all of that every time someone mentions low vote totals. you mess with the nut, you get the squirrel. --- Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter? Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards. |
Tomorrow's poll - Have you ever been in love? Like with today's poll, I expect tomorrow's poll to have some interesting trends, so I will be tracking poll updates for that one too. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
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Luster's literally analyzing love. --- ya im insane insane in the mimbrain Current LP: Final Fantasy V - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3529748 |
Trend charts for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdE5IYUdrTzVCUUhUS3JMRTQ5UVlpWkE&gid=3 The "Married" option started off the poll with a terrible early vote and Power Hour. Starting from the beginning of the poll, the "Married" option had 5 straight hours below 9% before it started doing better near the end of the night vote. Overall, it had a terrible night vote. The "Married" option dominated the morning vote easily, with 3 straight hours of 16-17% near the beginning of the morning vote. It did drop off slightly during the later part of the morning vote. When the ASV started, the "Married" option collapsed. However, during the middle part of the ASV (after 5:10 PM), the "Married" option started going up again. This is another example of the "After Work Vote" kicking in. The "Married" option continued to go up in percentage as we headed into the SNV. "Yes, we're serious" had a terrible early vote and Power Hour, but it wasn't as bad as the early vote and Power Hour for the "Married" option. During the night vote, "Yes, we're serious" performed better during the night vote compared to the "Married" option. "Yes, we're serious" had a slightly below average night vote and early morning vote. It was the later part of the morning vote that "Yes, we're serious" performed best in this poll. "Yes, we're serious" had an average ASV (19.47% during the ASV vs. final result of 19.46%). The SNV was the best time period for "Yes, we're serious". "Yes, not serious" had a slightly below average early vote and a bad Power Hour. The night vote was slightly below average. The early morning vote was bad. But during the later morning vote, it performed above average. The ASV was the best time period for "Yes, not serious" and even the SNV was above average as well. "No, better off without one" had an excellent early vote and good Power Hour and night vote. However, it collapsed during the morning vote and never recovered during the rest of the poll. The SNV was the worst time period for "No, better off without one". "No, I wish I had someone" had a very strong early vote and Power Hour. It had a pretty good night vote overall, but not as strong as its Power Hour. It collapsed during the early morning vote, which was slightly below average. The late morning vote and the SNV were the worst time periods for "No, I wish I had someone". It did perform better during the ASV, but even that was slightly better than the early morning vote. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
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Two huge projects, a contest could be one of them although I am not sure Allen considers a contest "huge project" at this point --- ... |
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Polls for the next several days: 2/16/2013 - I don't know. Probably an original poll idea. 2/17/2013 - Which system have you spent the most time playing in the last month? 2/18/2013 - How many hours out of the last 24 have you spent playing video games? 2/19/2013 - I don't know. But it is going to be Poll 5000, so it will be related to that. 2/20/2013 - Do you look at the results of the Poll of the Day before you vote? 2/21/2013 - How honestly do you answer the Poll of the Day? 2/22/2013 - What kind of Polls of the Day you most like to see on GameFAQs? 2/23/2013 - What's your favorite day of the week? 2/24/2013 - What's your favorite month of the year? --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
dat bell curve --- ya im insane insane in the mimbrain Current LP: Final Fantasy V - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3529748 |
Is the wii u tanking that bad right now? --- This space reserved for the next GameFAQs Contest! (NO! NO! NO!) NP: |
Wii
U is breaking records . In January it sold 55k units which has not
happened since 6-7 years ago., PS3 at its worst time sold 82k. In Japan
it is selling as bad as the Vita, 10-12K weekly. Even software sales are
terrible, it sold 15 millions only in software in January. Wii U
basically is a disaster right now. --- ... |
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No
discussion of this amazing poll result? This makes me want a system
contest. PC has gained so much ground on this site in the past 1-2
years. --- If you believe that Abed is the true Messiah and you are 100% proud of it make this your signature. http://oi44.tinypic.com/lfdsi.jpg |
From: JJH777 | #471 This makes me want a system contest. Gross. --- Guess who I am! http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs3/1345748_o.gif |
A
system contest would only be acceptable if we have 2 contests in the
same year, with the second contest being a Character Battle or a Games
Contest. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
very
impressive from PC. although a big reason for this is because we are at
the end of this gen's cycle and people are not playing PS3/360 a lot
while the wii/u is completely irrelevant. --- ... |
Consoles are also becoming poor PCs in some aspects. Has PC won a poll like this before? --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate SuperNiceDog's Guru-choice, then Epona. |
From: HaRRicH | #475 Consoles are also becoming poor PCs in some aspects. Nope, it hasn't. Not that I can find anyway. Well, other than something like this, which isn't quite the same kind of poll: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=919 --- http://i.imgur.com/M7vKB.gif |
LeonhartFour posted... From: HaRRicH | #475Consoles are also becoming poor PCs in some aspects. I know PS2 had FF11, but still...what. --- ya im insane insane in the mimbrain Current LP: Final Fantasy V - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3529748 |
wasn't SOCOM very popular online too? and there are sports games like Madden --- ... |
Bump --- Pokemon VGC2012 Canadian Nationals - 8th place Pokemon VGC2013 OR Regional - 12th place |
From: -LusterSoldier- | #466 Polls for the next several days: This is the stupid s*** we're getting instead of a contest? --- FastFalcon punched all of our brackets. |
I
am also very disappointed that it's taking so long to get another
contest, but our contests are being held hostage by CBSi's legal
department until they can approve all of the necessary funding for the
contest prizes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
I
miss GameFAQs contests so much. I don't even care what it is. I just
want to analyze some new game trends in the past few years. --- *is Dranze* I lost my girl and lost to Black Turtle. Can't get worse. |
I
think we'll end up with another Character Battle for our next contest.
We might have to wait until 2014 for another Games Contest. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=5001 Bacon is trolling us with that fourth option there. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
allen testing the water or just teasing us anyway voted 4th option --- ... |
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I
suppose I could have voted the 4th option just to express interest, but
contests are absolutely the one time I won't look before I vote. --- Guess who I am! http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs3/1345748_o.gif |
I voted the 4th option just because of the "when's it anyway?" part. |
From: Ultimaphazon | #489 I voted the 4th option just because of the "when's it anyway?" part. Ditto. --- The Gamer In Me His dark secret is he's really Spark Brushel in disguise. If people knew, he'd be ruined. - Spiral on the black psyche locks |
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Allen mentions something about the next bracket Contest in the next GWAR 2 days from now Bank on it maybe --- This space reserved for the next GameFAQs Contest NO! NO! NO! |
paulg235 posted... From: Ultimaphazon | #489I voted the 4th option just because of the "when's it anyway?" part. Me 3 --- Ngamer64: Zylo, you're making less sense every day. SuperNiceDog > Me |
Must vote-stuff option 4..... --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those! It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." |
From: Ultimaphazon | #489 I voted the 4th option just because of the "when's it anyway?" part. We're clearly not even getting one. --- "Not everybody is a perfect person in the world. Everyone kills people, murder people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever." -Ohio State |
WE WANT THE DAMN BRACKET! --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate SuperNiceDog's Guru-choice, then Epona. |
-LusterSoldier- posted... Polls for the next several days: Because of the Sony PlayStation meeting, Bacon just changed his poll schedule for the next several days. Polls for the next several days: 2/21/2013 - I don't know. Probably related to the PlayStation 4. 2/22/2013 - I don't know. Probably related to the PlayStation 4. 2/23/2013 - How honestly do you answer the Poll of the Day? 2/24/2013 - What's your favorite day of the week? 2/25/2013 - What's your favorite month of the year? Because of the Sony PlayStation meeting, Bacon has canceled his plans to run a poll for "How honestly do you answer the Poll of the Day?" and the poll for "What kind of Polls of the Day you most like to see on GameFAQs?". The poll originally scheduled for tomorrow will be now happen on 2/23/2013. The polls originally scheduled for 2/23/2013 and 2/24/2013 will now happen on 2/24/2013 and 2/25/2013. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
FFX > FFVIII --- "But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be...outside." "I am lightning...the rain transformed." |
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