Vote for Firefly (Leave no poll unposted)! XIV by FlatTop

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Vote for Firefly (Leave no poll unposted)! XIV

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Friday, February 27, 2009 6:10 AM

MYSERENITYBF

1. Firefly 939
2. Jericho 913

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Friday, February 27, 2009 8:20 AM

SUASOR

Under 1k (985 behind), Yea

We gained 515 votes on Jericho in the last seven days.

At this rate we could pass them in two weeks. But where did those huge spikes in voting come from. Where are all those Browncoats hanging out?

From the TVTally "Top 25 Shows" overall score page ( http://www.tvtally.com/shows/overalltop.php?top=25),

Date Gain Jericho Firefly Daily Votes
2/20...157....320......477
2/21...-37....358......321
2/22...343....190......533
2/23...125....56......181
2/24...39.....52.........91
2/25...28.....70.........98
2/26...0.....112.......112
2/27...17.....62.......79

We gained 718 votes on Jericho last week (176 the previous week). Overall the total vote at the beginning of the week is Jericho 47518 (45914 last week), Firefly 46449 (44127 last week) We are 1069 behind, versus 1787 a week ago. A year ago, we were ahead. Over the last few weeks, we have been closing the gap.

The absentee operator of TVTally, or someone with sysadmin privs, showed up in January to do some site maintenance. Several things have changed. First, the cookie monster has been tamed somewhat. By using a browser with cookies turned off, you can now only vote three times for one show every six hours, not six times. Second, the message boards have disappeared. This was the only way, in theory, for the site admin and users to communicate (no one ever responds when tvtally@gmail.com is used). Now it's all gone (and I posted the last message, last November, I hope that wasn't the cause). Thought there was a third fix, but no. The weekly totals are not yet correctly returning to zero, but they are returning to some older dataset. This nonsense began in January, where tvtally weekly numbers first did not roll over to zero. Instead what showed up was larger numbers, with Jericho in the lead. Many other shows got numbers other than zero. This does not have any impact on the overall totals. It's just confusing.

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 BBC today we are; Serenity 41.79% Star Wars 29.67% Blade Runner 17.21% Planet of the Apes 1.83% The Matrix 9.51% 42376 Votes Cast

In the last 24 hours we got 22 votes. Very good. More, please, sir.

On January 1st it was; Serenity 41.15% Star Wars 30.00% Blade Runner 17.40% Planet of the Apes 1.85% The Matrix 9.60% 41877 Votes Cast
On November 1st it was; Serenity 40.66% Star Wars 30.24% Blade Runner 17.54% Planet of the Apes 1.87% The Matrix 9.69% 41471 Votes Cast
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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Friday, February 27, 2009 9:12 AM

KC5F

vump...

1. Firefly 948
2. Jericho 918

And don't forget the new Sci-Fi Movie poll - second one down on the page: http://stargate-news.com/sci-fi-poll-best-in-science-fiction.html

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At this rate we could pass them in two weeks. But where did those huge spikes in voting come from. Where are all those Browncoats hanging out?

I don't think either side turned out hordes, but rather had a couple of voters who knew how to manipulate cookies and/or IP addresses to get in large numbers of votes. Who knows where they went, but I think it's probably better this way, getting honest votes. It may take us longer than two weeks, but we'll get there honestly.

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Friday, February 27, 2009 10:02 AM