Vote for Firefly (we're #3)! V by FlatTop

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Originally posted by fedexxx:
Damn, another western about to enter! Why don't we sci-fi fans unite as well on a show and vote for it until it gets in the top 40? I propose The Avengers, Tru Calling, Supernatural, The 4400, there are more. Are you interested? Propose ones of your own as well. What happened with Drive? I think I didn't see it in the list, perhaps they didn't accept it as it's not aired yet?

Another western? LHotP is a western? Well, ok, I suuppose it is, but I have to admit, I never thought of it as a western because I don't like westerns and I -do- like LHotP ;-) Haven't been voting for it on nomination 'cause I only get one nomination vote, and I'm working something else.

Drive... I believe it isn't a TV show... yet. TV vote is clear they won't accept ballots for anything that isn't a TV show, so until it broadcasts it's just ... a plan?

As far as other shows... heck, if there's something in particular you want to boost, and I like it well enough, I'll vote for it. For instance, I wouldn't likely vote for Avenger or Supernatural; haven't seen 'em. 4400, on the other hand, I've enjoyed considerably (been getting it on DVD as it releases) and would vote for.

Currently, I'd like to see a decent kids show move up into the top40, like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood or Sesame Street; I've been voting for the former but could get behind the latter. On the flip side, I can always set that aside for a bit if there was some other "action" that caught my interest.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:26 AM

Top 10 + BSG

title total dayDelta totDec1 aveDec1
Xena 181159 512 24,283 552
Bonanza 149747 631 28,393 645
Firefly 118494 839 38,282 870
Nikita 96268 155 7,472 170
Farscape 90612 184 8,763 199
Gunsmoke 74205 312 13,159 299
X-Files 58818 325 12,645 287
QaF 58394 52 2,556 58
Roswell 56299 138 5,751 131
Lexx 53025 167 8,777 199
BSG 15078 388 9,120 380

Averages relative to Dec 1 except BSG rel to Dec 21.
Our numbers were down a bit; but our close rate is still above general averages relative to 1 & 2.

As there's been some discussion regarding sci fi shows that might be worthy of support, I've run thru my nomination data; these are sci fi shows (at least, I recognize them as sci fi or am presuming they are based on the title; feel free to add or remove based on facts) that in the top 100 of the nomination poll (there 1500+ shows in the full list; I'm not looking at them all ;-) )

Title ; RecentActivity ; PositionInPollList
The Bionic Woman ; 0 ; 87
Highlander: The Raven ; 0 ; 76
Smallville ; 8 ; 73
Quantum Leap ; 12 ; 72
Battlestar Galactica - TOS ; 3 ; 69
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ; 0 ; 66
The 4400 ; 5 ; 61
Supernatural ; 21 ; 60
Heroes ; 22 ; 38
Twin Peaks ; 0 ; 27
Space: Above and Beyond ; 0 ; 19
Futurama ; 5 ; 14
Space: 1999 ; 70 ; 10
The Avengers ; 22 ; 9

If you see something there you think ought to wiggle its way into the top 40 and aren't already doing something with your nomination vote, have at it!

RecentActivity... this is a -very- rough, quick and dirty average of the shows last 3 days of activity. I may have mentally made a minor mistake; but the zeroes are zeroes; and anything else is probably +/- 2.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 6:02 AM

SIRI

Vote. Bump. Keep on keeping on.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 6:03 AM

I've bee voting for Cowboy Bebop since the new year, kinda as a way to see if I could get one in the top forty all by my lonesome, even if it took awhile. If we Browncoats are all going to endorse another show to bump into the top forty I think it'd be best if we picked one we could all agree on. I'll second Sesame Street.
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Sunday, January 14, 2007 6:40 AM

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Originally posted by derangedmilk:
I've been voting for Cowboy Bebop since the new year, kinda as a way to see if I could get one in the top forty all by my lonesome, even if it took awhile.

Not bad, I see you've taken it from "tied with many at 2 votes" (about position 800) and moved it up to position 304.
I've been watching the stats for a while, and it's... pretty much impossible to do that. Too many shows are getting over 24 / day so unless you have a way to get more than that by your lonesome, it isn't going to happen. What you -can- do is get a show into the top 20 or so of the nomination list on your own; but as you point out, that takes a very long time.

Quote:

If we Browncoats are all going to endorse another show to bump into the top forty I think it'd be best if we picked one we could all agree on. I'll second Sesame Street.
-e

Well, we are Browncoats; I'd be happy if we came up with a short list of 2 or 3 ;-)

I will observe that Sesame St still hasn't gotten any additional votes; I'm sticking w/ Mr. Rogers (and I think I might have picked up a little help with my earlier post, if so Thanks to whoever!) until I see something else -happening- I can get behind ;-) But Sesame St would be a cool option.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 6:52 AM

How about a nomination push for Futurama? It was a space show on Fox that was constantly preempted by sports and was unceremoniously canceled before even airing all of its episodes. Sound familiar?

It gained fan following and hence DVD sales were significant. Again, familiar.

I liked the writing on Futurama. There were some rather clever jokes that it would take someone with an IQ higher than room temperature to understand. Thats room temp in Fahrenheit, 72. Which I think is the IQ aimed at for most of network TV. For that matter it could be an IQ as low as room temperature in Celsius...

Perhaps get Futurama boards interested in the vote. They vote for Firefly and nominate Futurama, and so do we.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 7:42 AM

Getting interest from Futurama's board to vote for Firefly? Futurama's currently pulling in 5-10 votes for a while (they haven't broken 20 since 12/26; the earliest data I have); that's one or two people... First, you need to get Futurama's board interested in voting for futurama! So... I'd say we vote for Futurama on it's own merit and not worry about any tie back unless Futurama fan base ignites with some "support from other quarters".

Rule of thumb, I (being a stubborn browncoat) don't vote for shows I don't like; and I don't like shows I haven't seen... so... hmmm... -if- there was a consenus to go with Futurama for a nomination run here, I'd be willing to break down and buy season one on DVD for ... $22? (quick google shows this is not an unreasonable price goal) ; then assess after viewing.

Some more background:
http://www.tv.com/futurama/show/249/summary.html?om_act=convert&om_clk
=tabssh&tag=tabs;summary
..has this...
Airs Next: FOX at Sunday 7:00 PM (30 min.)
Status: On Hiatus / TBD Premiered: March 28, 1999 Last Aired: August 10, 2003

This and other searches strongly indicate the show made four seasons.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:18 AM

Time for a new thread?
Where's Morena to finish this one up?

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:20 AM

Today's Numbers:

Total Votes (Range to show)
Xena(1): 181159 (62665)
Bonanza(2): 149747 (31253)
Firefly(3): 118494 (0)

Votes Gained Today (Wk.Avg.) Avg.
Xena(1): 512 (533) 526
Bonanza(2): 631 (677) 616
Firefly(3): 839 (910) 757

Closure Rate Today (Wk.Avg.) Avg.
Xena(1): 327 (377) 231
Bonanza(2): 208 (233) 141

Days to Intercept Today (Wk.Avg.) Avg.
Xena(1): 192 (166) 271
Bonanza(2): 150 (134) 222

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:47 AM

First, found another way to vote for Firefly:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/bringbackfirefly
This is well thought out petition, which I first found referenced here:

http://fireflydvd.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3276

Did a search on FFF, and found no references so I'll also open a seperate thread on the topic.

Re:

Quote:
Originally posted by Stoweaway:
Time for a new thread?
Where's Morena to finish this one up?

Lately, we've been letting Flattop open the new thread when he's got the next set of chart ready to go; usually Mondays? So I'm guessing if we just wait another day....

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:04 PM

...We do need a new thread...but for now....
Vote....Bump

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:17 PM

I've updated FlyVote for helping cast votes for the best TV show of all time. The new version is 1.2 and includes a count of your votes. FlyVote is available from http://www.usbmicro.com/misc

"Stuff The Ballot Box for Firefly at the TV_Vote page using FlyVote. With FlyVote you vote, then you will be reminded in an hour to vote again. No more missing votes when you lose track of time.

FlyVote opens the TV_Vote page when it starts. After voting (for FireFly, of course) you put FlyVote to sleep for an hour with the click of a button. FlyVote will pop up after another hour to remind you to vote again.

FlyVote provides a random quote from Firefly when it pops up.

FlyVote is available for Windows (98 and up), Mac, OSX, and Linux. If you have any feedback for Flyvote you can contact flyvote -at- USBmicro -dot- com."

Testing is always time consuming. Please let me know when FlyVote is working for you and when you are having troubles.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 6:55 PM

You're not sly, are you? Cause I got my BUMP.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:33 AM

...there's so much tasty in this bump

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Monday, January 15, 2007 3:49 AM

Monday... morning... do what? hmmm... Oh...

Vote.
Bump.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:24 AM

JORUNE

We shall bump them in the Fields and in the streets,
we shall bump them in the hills.

Firefly and BSG FTW

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:55 AM

Today's Numbers:

Total Votes (Range to show)
Xena(1): 181689 (62301)
Bonanza(2): 150351 (30963)
Firefly(3): 119388 (0)

Votes Gained Today (Wk.Avg.) Avg.
Xena(1): 530 (532) 527
Bonanza(2): 604 (682) 616
Firefly(3): 894 (931) 759 Almost 900 on a Sunday!

Closure Rate Today (Wk.Avg.) Avg.
Xena(1): 364 (399) 232
Bonanza(2): 290 (249) 143

Days to Intercept Today (Wk.Avg.) Avg.
Xena(1): 171 (156) 269
Bonanza(2): 107 (124) 217

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Monday, January 15, 2007 6:45 AM

120,000 Tomorrow!!
Vo-da-bump

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Monday, January 15, 2007 7:33 AM

SLOWHAND

It's cool that we're closing, but I have a question.

BONANZA?!?!?!?!

Of all shows, why are we behind Bonanza??? What, are there like a bunch of 70-year-old TV junkies out there voting??? Nothing against the show, or 70-year-old TV junkies for that matter, but it's just strange that we're chasing Bonanza of all shows!

......and bump.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 8:29 AM

Hey Slowhand: I think it's a combination of folk jumping on the voting board early, plus Bonanza; lots of people grew up watching that show and it's really familiar. BUT Firefly (also a 'western') had only it's tiny, not-a-whole-season to inspire/attract; so yeah, we're voting against an "old guard" type of program; but we're doing very well. I think I started voting in October and Firefly was below Roswell...so as more of us come on board and vote regularly... we're doing VERY well!
oh, and vote/bump....

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Monday, January 15, 2007 9:42 AM

BUMP
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Monday, January 15, 2007 10:32 AM

PSANDS

Vote for your Favorite Mutant Enemy Series. There is a poll on The Week in Whedon where you can vote once every 24 hours. Firefly is in the lead but has been slipping a little lately.
My Flyvote 1.2 vote total is up to 8 now. Shiny little progam. Does anyone know if the total will reset if you close the progam or reboot. Be nice if it just kept going.

http://weekinwhedon.org/wiw/

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Monday, January 15, 2007 10:53 AM

Votey Bump...votey bump...votey bump, bump BUMP

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Monday, January 15, 2007 11:07 AM

AYCEOFSPADES

24th vote of the day (9am- 9pm), wanna see if I can do a full 24hours lol let you know how I get on......and bump

I AIM TO MISBEHAVE

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Monday, January 15, 2007 11:26 AM

Quote:

My Flyvote 1.2 vote total is up to 8 now. Shiny little progam. Does anyone know if the total will reset if you close the progam or reboot. Be nice if it just kept going.

The count is reset to 0 when the program first runs. It is reset to 0 each time that it runs. It increments the count each time that it wakes out of sleep.

You can keep it running - I vote, yawn, and grab some sleep. FlyVote pops up sometime after I wink out and patiently waits until morning for me to vote again. But that's because my PC runs 24/7.

I haven't tried putting FlyVote (or a link) in a startup directory (again assuming Windows), but that should work OK. And a shutdown with FlyVote running shouldn't cause trouble.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 12:47 PM

Well, I think I have this right... new top10 + BSG format.

title total dayDelta aveJan1 aveDec1
Xena: 181689 530 548 551
Bonanza 150351 604 675 644
Firefly 119388 894 906 871
Nikita 96420 152 166 169
Farscape 90794 182 185 199
Gunsmoke 74516 311 324 299
The X-Files 59153 335 298 288
Queer as Folk 58453 59 58 58
Roswell 56431 132 144 131
Lexx 53240 215 209 200
BSG 15477 399 418 381

The aveJan1 is the average number of votes per day a show has gotten since Jan 1; likewise for aveDec1 except it is since Dec 1 (except BSG, which it is relative to dec 21 (day BSG hit top40)

I found this is really the data I like to see for the top 10; it gives instantaneous and a moderate time frame average and a fairly long time frame average on votes. Hope you like it.

For nominations;
Mr. Rogers continues to climb (and thanks for those who have sent your nomination ballots that way).

Futurama still getting < 5 votes.

Little House is being rebuilt by scads of volunteers; they are getting 180/190's now.

No other significant action to report.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 1:03 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by psands:
Vote for your Favorite Mutant Enemy Series. There is a poll on The Week in Whedon where you can vote once every 24 hours. Firefly is in the lead but has been slipping a little lately.

http://weekinwhedon.org/wiw/]

PSands -
There were some folks who were voting regularly in the WIW poll. But I'm not sure if anyone has been lately. Here's the last thread I found:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=25240

Even I hadn't voted in a while and it looks like we're slipping back. Perhaps you could resurrect the voting effort with a shiny new post?? I went ahead and voted while I was there.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:35 PM

PSANDS

I will give it a try and thanks for the vote

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Monday, January 15, 2007 3:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by psands:
I will give it a try and thanks for the vote

That'd be amazing man. I'd love to see us hit the kinda numbers we hit last time the regulars and many, many visitors of whedonesque got behind the vote. Look out records, HERE WE COME!!!

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Monday, January 15, 2007 4:36 PM

And that's not BUMP

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:40 PM

...or I'd bump a man for money. Mostly for money.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 6:37 PM

SYNTHETIC

bump before bed...

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Monday, January 15, 2007 9:39 PM

FEDEXXX

I won't vote for Sesame Str, I hate this one! I watched two episodes as a 4-year-old and I hated it, they counted to 10 about 20 times per episode! Besides the bulgarian voices doubling the original ones sucked :)

I'll vote for The 4400 if anyone else votes with me and we really stand a chance of getting it into the top 40. For now I'm voting for The Avengers.
Hey, how about Crusade, the B5 continuation? How about Point Pleasant? Dark Angel? First Wave? 3rd Rock from the Sun?
There're so many shows I'd love to vote for :(

Hey, what was the name of that Walt Disney show with the ducks Uncle Scroudge, Donald Duck, Hui, Dui and Lui, Magica etc. It was my favourite kid's show!

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Monday, January 15, 2007 10:34 PM

MORENA

Ha Stoweaway, you can run but you can't hide!

"Nothing in the verse can stop me!"
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:55 AM

Bumpin'

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:20 AM

SYNTHETIC

big fat bump before work...booya...

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:26 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by fedexxx:
Hey, what was the name of that Walt Disney show with the ducks Uncle Scroudge, Donald Duck, Hui, Dui and Lui, Magica etc. It was my favourite kid's show!

Duck Tales. I was personally more of a fan of Darkwing Duck, but Duck Tales was pretty good too. They made a movie if I remember right.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:29 AM

1044! Can we _stay_ over 1000?

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:30 AM

Good morning from SC

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:47 AM

EVILBUNGLE

been very busy working at the moment so no posting (plenty of vote action though so don't worry)

just to correct something from derangedmilk earlier in the thread, Vote Day (Dec 1st) did see 1350 votes (the highest amount so far) the problem being that it was overshadowed by achieving that exact amount a few days earlier. so we have twice hit 1350

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Together we will triumph.

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:53 AM

AYCEOFSPADES

Congrats guys, we hit 120,000 (120,432) does this mean we get another showing on the little blue tv screen? lol

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:32 AM

KINGKAI

Let's go Browncoats!

"Yeah, that went well..."

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:58 AM

Whaaaaaaa HOOOOOOO!!
120,000!!! AND the slide show....
we ROCK....keep voting!

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by EvilBungle:
been very busy working at the moment so no posting (plenty of vote action though so don't worry)

just to correct something from derangedmilk earlier in the thread, Vote Day (Dec 1st) did see 1350 votes (the highest amount so far) the problem being that it was overshadowed by achieving that exact amount a few days earlier. so we have twice hit 1350

I guess thats what I was thinking...but seeing as we didn't hit the exact amount twice, which day actually, technically holds the record?
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 7:48 AM

CANTER

I'm back and voting.

And in a strange twist of fate, also bumping.

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:49 AM

Ain't about you. Its about what they bump.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:38 AM