SFX is a major SF periodical in the UK, available for sale on most newsstands. BBC... is distributed world wide; if Serenity wins here, it is possible it would yield some major PR.
It is my hope/concern that the poll will close after one month; this means the last vote day would be May 1 or May 2. So, I ask for the next few days to vote like crazy for our beloved show. We are only 960 votes out of first place...
(11:30 US ET (GMT - 5) today) Serenity 31.60% Star Wars 34.53% 32762 Votes Cast
With rounding, this works out to about: 10353 Serenity 11313 Star Wars or a difference of 960. We can close this in the time available! Will you help?
Rep% Reported Percent at website Total This movies total votes based on Rep% times reported "total votes in the poll", internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today Today's" votes based on the total from today less the total for the show reported yesterday; internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today% Value of "Today" / total votes for today
Summary line has three parts; the Poll reported "Total votes in the poll", the fixed phrase "Votes Cast", then a "total votes for today". Total votes in the poll - the integer provided by the site for the total votes in the poll since inception. Total votes for today - the summation of the various shows "Today" votes. Internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur.
Not that I haven't been voting and I loved how the article says Serenity jumped from 144 to 15 on the Amazon ranking chart but... When I look at Fireflyfans.net Amazon chart it doesn't show anything of the sort. What gives?
To paraphrase Kaylee: Whedon's Firefly is just so lush. I want to take a bite out of it all over, you know?
Quote: Originally posted by redhead: Not that I haven't been voting and I loved how the article says Serenity jumped from 144 to 15 on the Amazon ranking chart but... When I look at Fireflyfans.net Amazon chart it doesn't show anything of the sort. What gives?
The Amazon Chart on FFF.net is for the US Amazon I believe. The article is referring to the UK Amazon.
Title Rep% Total Today Today% Serenity 31.71% 10432 110 55.38% Star Wars 34.45% 11333 40 20.14% Blade Runner 20.35% 6695 28 14.07% Planet of the Apes 2.23% 734 1 0.61% The Matrix 11.26% 3704 19 9.79% 32897 Votes Cast 198
Rep% Reported Percent at website Total This movies total votes based on Rep% times reported "total votes in the poll", internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today Today's" votes based on the total from today less the total for the show reported yesterday; internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today% Value of "Today" / total votes for today
Summary line has three parts; the Poll reported "Total votes in the poll", the fixed phrase "Votes Cast", then a "total votes for today". Total votes in the poll - the integer provided by the site for the total votes in the poll since inception. Total votes for today - the summation of the various shows "Today" votes. Internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur.
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Dunno; there haven't been that many votes that .5% could vanish and return; I've seen a pretty smooth flow in our direction today: 7:43 am 4/30 Serenity 31.78% Star Wars 34.40% Blade Runner 20.33% Planet of the Apes 2.23% The Matrix 11.27% 32984 Votes Cast
Quote: Originally posted by tuftyfella: must say though, some time last week between me voting before work and coming home 0.50%(ish) dissapeared from Serenity, have no idea why though...
That happened over a matter of hours on Friday, I believe. Serenity had been making steady progress with no response from Star Wars or Blade Runner until that time.
Most of the response was from Blade Runner, with some from Star Wars. It seemed like the vote count was increasing by hundreds of votes in a matter of minutes. I assumed that the vote was coming to an end and there was a final push by Star Wars and Blade Runner to assert themselves.
I considered registering on this site to inform you Browncoats of this situation. Fortunately, by the morning, the flurry of new votes stopped and there has been steady progress made with the occasional 0.01% setback. I believe it took over three weeks to close the Star Wars gap from over 20% to about 3.5%. Star Wars and Blade Runner have shown that they can make a change of 0.5% in a matter of hours, if they are so inclined.
Was the activity before the weekend a warning or a test of their voting capability? It was too much volume in a short period of time for just a few voters without doing things such as changing IP connections. If I remember correctly this activity took place sometime between about 10 PM and 6 AM PST, so perhaps the origin was not in the United States.
So, Browncoats, if you care about this front, be vigilant.
Hail and farewell. My coat is now brown, but more of an old, faded navy blue. Never been much of a "joiner", particularly for voting. All this talk about SciFi Alliance just sounds creepy to me for some reason.
I don't know if it was a cheat gone bad, or suddenly a thousand folks decided to participate and quit. It was strange. Seen nothing like it on this poll. Votes started trailing off... boom ... then back to like it was before.
I'm also not sure what happened to my previous post; I was playing with fonts and styles and it went zocko. Perhaps someone posted while I was editting and the site merged the posts together? In any case, the site will no longer let me edit it (even though it indicates I own the post). I didn't write this and the stuff after "That happened over a matter of hours on Friday,"
For the stated time and 24 hours before.... 9:36pm et 4/30/2007 Title______________Rep%_Total_Today_Today% Serenity__________31.86%_10547_115_54.93% Star.Wars_________34.33%_11364__31_14.93% Blade.Runner______20.34%__6733__39_18.45% Planet.of.the.Apes_2.22%___735___1__0.61% The.Matrix________11.26%__3727__23_11.08% 33103_.Votes.Cast______________209
Rep% Reported Percent at website Total This movies total votes based on Rep% times reported "total votes in the poll", internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today Today's" votes based on the total from today less the total for the show reported yesterday; internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today% Value of "Today" / total votes for today
Summary line has three parts; the Poll reported "Total votes in the poll", the fixed phrase "Votes Cast", then a "total votes for today". Total votes in the poll - the integer provided by the site for the total votes in the poll since inception. Total votes for today - the summation of the various shows "Today" votes. Internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur.
if we lose this poll, what does that make us look like on the one that we did win on? this must be a top priority for the next48 hours for every browncoat.
10:00 PM 05/01 Title ......... Rep% Total Today Today% Serenity ...... 31.94% 10631 84 47.44% Star Wars ..... 34.34% 11430 65 36.84% Blade Runner .. 20.29% 6753 20 11.35% Planet of the Apes 2.21% 736 1 0.39% The Matrix .... 11.22% 3734 7 3.98% 33284 .. Votes Cast ... ....... 178
Rep% Reported Percent at website Total This movies total votes based on Rep% times reported "total votes in the poll", internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today Today's" votes based on the total from today less the total for the show reported yesterday; internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today% Value of "Today" / total votes for today
Summary line has three parts; the Poll reported "Total votes in the poll", the fixed phrase "Votes Cast", then a "total votes for today". Total votes in the poll - the integer provided by the site for the total votes in the poll since inception. Total votes for today - the summation of the various shows "Today" votes. Internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur.
Rep% Reported Percent at website Total This movies total votes based on Rep% times reported "total votes in the poll", internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today Today's" votes based on the total from today less the total for the show reported yesterday; internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today% Value of "Today" / total votes for today
Summary line has three parts; the Poll reported "Total votes in the poll", the fixed phrase "Votes Cast", then a "total votes for today". Total votes in the poll - the integer provided by the site for the total votes in the poll since inception. Total votes for today - the summation of the various shows "Today" votes. Internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur.
Well, heck. While it was a reasonable supposition that the poll would close May 2; it is obvious it did not. BBC site does not have a "uniform" policy regarding polls (at least, I couldn't find one). It may be they intend to leave this open forever, or might yet close it(but when is anybody's guess). In any event; this thread now has a misleading title. I see two courses of action; one, we merge this effort back into the TV_vote thread, eg: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=28464 which is where much "vote related" activites take place; or we open a new thread with a better title... thoughts? Other ideas?
In the scheme of internet polls, this is an important one for us - Serenity Now screenings in June, SE DVD in July, sequel contracts expire in September and probably a bunch of other stuff besides. All could benefit from this - ergo, see how the DVD sales peaked on the SFX poll news.
*Mainstream* publicity is gold for our little piece of the 'verse, & you can't get much more mainstream than the BBC. Heck, if we knock Star Wars off again, we might get on the BBC news, major newspapers, a few sound bytes on movie shows and such.
Then again, we might get nuthin' - in which case what do we lose ? Nuthin'
I'm going to keep voting as I wanna see what happens when we hit the front.
Yeah Leadb, I think a new thread would be appropriate. Perhaps "Serenity closing in on Star Wars in BBC poll - *xxx behind* VOTE NOW." Update the title daily. ??
How often can you vote on this ? I've been doing it before I close any browser window or when Flyvote pops up to remind me.
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Title____________ _ Rep% __Total Today _Today% Serenity ________ 32.06% _ 10707 _ 36 _ 82.31% Star Wars________ 34.32% _ 11462 __ 4 __ 9.17% Blade Runner_____ 20.23% __ 6756 __ 2 __ 3.66% Planet of the Apes 2.20% ___ 735 __ 1 __ 2.03% The Matrix_______ 11.20% __ 3741 __ 1 __ 2.83% 33398 ___Votes Cast ______________ 44 Rep% Reported Percent at website Total This movies total votes based on Rep% times reported "total votes in the poll", internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today Today's" votes based on the total from today less the total for the show reported yesterday; internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur. Today% Value of "Today" / total votes for today
Summary line has three parts; the Poll reported "Total votes in the poll", the fixed phrase "Votes Cast", then a "total votes for today". Total votes in the poll - the integer provided by the site for the total votes in the poll since inception. Total votes for today - the summation of the various shows "Today" votes. Internally fixed point, displayed as integer. Rounding will occur.
Well Roy, I vote hourly; I believe though it only counts one a day. The problem is, it's hard to tell if a particular vote was counted. I figure if I vote when I vote for TV_vote, then I'm pretty sure to get my vote in each day.
Given I'm voting TV_vote typically 8-12 time a day, it's hard to explain only 36 votes; on the other hand, if it's only counting one a day, 36 suddenly becomes very believable.
A new thread; we can do a new thread.... tomorrow ;-) (unless someone beats me to it; feel free to just throw a pointer here, I'll follow along :-) )
