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Nobody cares until we get an actual contest announcement. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
How long before the last contest was it announced? --- Because. -SBAllen |
LeonhartFour posted... Nobody cares until we get an actual contest announcement. At least it's good news that a contest will be coming eventually. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
-LusterSoldier- posted... LeonhartFour posted...Nobody cares until we get an actual contest announcement. Not really, the contest will suck again unless Bacon does something to majorly increase vote totals. --- Metroid Prime, Super Meat Boy speed runs: http://www.youtube.com/user/wgtan01 |
it's
not just increasing vote totals, but limit outside influence. Rallying
always played a role in our contests, but what reddit did last contest
was IMO just not fun. --- ... |
abdou posted... it's not just increasing vote totals, but limit outside influence. Rallying always played a role in our contests, but what reddit did last contest was IMO just not fun. Higher vote totals would fix that problem, though. The pitifully low totals were the reason why even weak 4chan rallies were deciding like 70% of matches. Draven was an exceptional circumstance and even then Link got so close to beating him that another 20k "normal" votes would've sealed it comfortably. --- Metroid Prime, Super Meat Boy speed runs: http://www.youtube.com/user/wgtan01 |
Yeah, higher vote totals would counterbalance most rallies. Draven would've still made it to Link, most likely, but he definitely wouldn't have beaten him. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
I
don't see any way we can get the votals of yesteryear. GameFAQs hits
now come from Google Searches and the like, not from any central
location. Even if you put a message on each page about the poll, most
people will not pay attention to it. The only way to keep a Reddit rally out is to limit the polls to registered users, but then the votals would be pitiful. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Yeah, the halcyon days of 2007-2009 aren't coming back. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
One-on-one matches should be able to thwart the effects of rallying somewhat as well. What percentage of Shepard's votes needed to go to Link for Link to have won? --- Because. -SBAllen |
After some quick math, only 52.766% needed to. --- Because. -SBAllen |
I think you have to give up on what contests used to be, those days are gone. --- Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter? Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards. |
tennisboy213 posted... One-on-one matches should be able to thwart the effects of rallying somewhat as well. 766 / 13829 = ~5.54% "lol" Problem with 1v1s is it removes any doubt of Link winning (unless Bacon bans him). However, having a few more predictable matches is definitely preferable to the clusterf*** of random rallies. --- Metroid Prime, Super Meat Boy speed runs: http://www.youtube.com/user/wgtan01 |
SBAllen
really needs to just ban Link and call it a day. His attempts to get
him to lose are doing far more damage than banning Link ever could. --- Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality |
I think we're getting a games contest next anyways --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
And hopefully a one-on-one one. --- Because. -SBAllen |
Theory: The red thing at the top of pages while not logged in is a placeholder for a future "Please make an account" message. --- Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality |
I
know about this red thing you are talking about. For now, the red
thing is currently an advertisement, but I don't think it will be used
for any other purpose besides running an advertisement. abdou posted... it's not just increasing vote totals, but limit outside influence. Rallying always played a role in our contests, but what reddit did last contest was IMO just not fun. There was a site alert message that was displayed on every page of the site for the last 4 matches of the contest (minus the bonus matches). 2 of those matches featured Draven, so I couldn't use that to estimate the banner effect. The 2 non-Draven matches that featured the site alert did not show any signs of increased vote totals (they were very similar to the 8 non-Draven matches in round 3). I would assume the site alert had no impact on the vote totals since it was quickly put in place near the end of the contest. If we get this site alert for every match in the next contest, it could help out the vote totals. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Earthbound
has an awful playrate on this site. Only 36.84% playrate at the
freeze. The Mother series as a whole (including Earthbound) only has a
4.16% playrate, while 16.90% have played at least one other game besides
Earthbound. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Hahaha,
wow. Earthbound got heavily anti-voted during the board vote because
its playrate has increased from 36.84% to 42.03% during the next 15
minutes after the freeze. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Upcoming 5/10/etc.-year anniversaries: 09/07/1999: Final Fantasy VIII (USA release) 10/20/1994: Final Fantasy VI (USA release) 10/26/2004: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 11/09/2004: Halo 2 (And the Halo Collection comes out later that week!) 11/16/2004: Half-Life 2 11/17/2004: Metal Gear Solid 3 11/18/1999: Chrono Cross 11/21/1999: Pokemon Gold/Silver 11/23/2004: World of Warcraft 11/24/1994: Donkey Kong Country 12/17/2009: Final Fantasy XIII I figure Bacon might consider these games important enough to warrant a poll so I'll probably submit a poll for each. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
AxemRedRanger posted... Upcoming 5/10/etc.-year anniversaries: Keep in mind that Bacon typically bases these polls off the Japanese release date, unless it is a Western game. Western games should be based off the US release date. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
So how many wild house parties have you thrown, Luster? --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
I've never hosted a wild house party in my life. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
This poll is only for Americans. --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? |
Yet a lower proportion of Americans have hosted parties according to geolocation. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
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He might have the wrong idea about what kind of Americans go to this site! Keep in mind that Bacon typically bases these polls off the Japanese release date, unless it is a Western game. Western games should be based off the US release date. Oh, I definitely would be using the first release date for all games involved, but some of those have already passed for the Japanese release. Updated the Have You Played page with the Earthbound result: http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Have_You_Played gamefaqs: Where more people have played Earthbound than World of Warcraft. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/11-sballin/69741678 Community Manager position is going to be hired in the near future. Maybe once that has been handled, we could get a contest announcement. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Boy, I feel sorry for the poor f***** who gets stuck with that job. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
-LusterSoldier- posted... http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/11-sballin/69741678 Have you applied? --- Metroid Prime, Super Meat Boy speed runs: http://www.youtube.com/user/wgtan01 |
No, I'm not going to apply. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
2044
votes at the end of the first hour for today's poll. I was expecting
today's poll to get awful vote totals, but this poll could possibly be
in the running to finish under 20000 votes. This poll is on track to
finish between 19000 and 22000 votes. Outside of the yearly GotY polls, we haven't had a full 24 hour poll get under 20000 votes since 5/3/2002. I'm not counting polls that ran for less than 24 hours, but suffered from reduced vote totals as a result of being located below a contest match. The 5/3/2002 poll was ran in a fair environment, with no poll glitches, contest matches, or other obstacles preventing the poll from getting over 20000 votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Nobody seems to like this new EA thing. --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? |
-LusterSoldier- posted... I'm not counting polls that ran for less than 24 hours, or suffered from reduced vote totals as a result of being located below a contest match. Minor correction to my earlier post that I just noticed right now. During this year so far, the following poll has come the closest to finishing under 20000 votes: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5416 That poll had 6349 votes after 6 hours, while today's poll had 6312 votes after 6 hours. So today's poll can still reach 20000 votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
This
poll will not be reaching 20000 votes. A sad day indeed, as it would
be our first non-GotY poll to get under 20000 votes since 5/3/2002. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Polls for the next 3 days: 8/1/2014 - Which of the three current consoles do you now own? 8/2/2014 - By the end of this year, which of the next-generation consoles do you plan to own? 8/3/2014 - Which of the two current portable systems do you now own? --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
This
poll bodes very well for the future of this console generation. "None
of them" has dropped about 12% since this same poll nearly 6 months ago
and more than half of this site has made the transition to a next-gen
console. With these results, I say that E3 2015 will definitely be
better than E3 2014. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I am in the 50%! --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? |
Today's
poll looks even better for the future of this site jumping on board
with a new generation of consoles. By the end of this year, we could
theoretically be looking at 67% of this site with at least one current
generation console. But in reality, that isn't going to happen because
everyone who didn't vote for "None of them" is not guaranteed to buy at
least one current console before the end of this year to put themselves
in the same group of people who voted for the first 7 options in
yesterday's poll. We could still potentially have at least 60% of the site with one current generation console by the end of this year. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I
love that the Wii U is winning this poll. I wish gamefaqs was more
representative of the average gamer. Maybe the Wii U would be getting
some more third party support if it was. Not that I want all the big
over budgeted crap I just want it to get a ton of great niche 3rd party
games like the Wii did. --- 9/2/13-The Hero of GameFAQs fought bravely but fell to an unrelenting horde supported by a corrupt tyranny. R.I.P. Hero of Time, 7 time CB Champion, Link |
Strange,
today's poll has some very awful vote totals. 2177 votes at the end of
the first hour, putting this poll on track to finish between 20000 and
24000 votes. Although this poll is only slightly ahead of the EA Access
poll from 2 days ago (which got under 20000 votes), today's poll is not
expected to finish under 20000 votes. The only thing that can explain the extremely awful vote totals in today's poll is the fact that today's poll has the exact same options as yesterday's poll. For those who voted in yesterday's poll, they might think today's poll is a poll that they already voted in, because both yesterday and today have the exact same options. As a result, some people who voted yesterday aren't voting in today's poll. We've seen other cases of this happening, where 2 consecutive polls have an identical set of poll options (or near identical), but the second poll ends up getting unusually low vote totals compared to what you would normally expect. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Man are really people getting a Wii U only to play Mario and Zelda games? --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? |
Are you new to Nintendo hardware? --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Yeah
people have always bought Nintendo's consoles mainly to play the
Nintendo 1st party games, Zelda, Mario, SSB etc. This is true for Wii u,
Wii, GameCube and Nintendo 64 . --- ... |
Nintendo
hardware since the N64 has received low third-party support, and almost
no support from the big publishers. Whatever third-party games appear
on Nintendo hardware are generally niche titles. People buy Nintendo
hardware for their games, unlike Sony and Microsoft. As for today's poll right now, it will actually break 24000 votes, beating out my initial prediction of 20000 to 24000 votes. I guess today's poll got off to a slow start at the beginning of the poll. Even then, this poll still got lower than expected vote totals. If it wasn't for the poll we had yesterday, this poll could have gotten between 26000 and 29000 votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Did we really get this poll...ugh Polls certainly used to have a better variety like a decade ago. --- Not the best, but the 2nd best. |
Not like it matters with how bad these vote totals are. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
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