Dodge & The Burnouts, TPL 2013, HELP US PLEASE !!!

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05/07/2013 10:35:27 AM · #27

Originally posted by hahn23:

I'm a little confused as to what you are asking of the voting membership. Do you want us to vote artifically high on your teams entries? Or, do you want us to suppress the scores of your competition? Or, both?

Damon

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05/07/2013 10:36:09 AM · #28

Originally posted by hahn23:

Yes

nam

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05/07/2013 10:37:02 AM · #29

Originally posted by hahn23:

Or neither. I think they are just joking around.

FourPointX

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05/07/2013 10:43:34 AM · #30

Originally posted by tome:

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by Strikeslip:
. . .

Tome is the only English speaking person in Macedonia, and would be very lonely if it weren't for his heard of sheep.

. . .

And I'll bet he can spell "herd"

Hey, I herd that!

those macadamians here everything

skewsme

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05/07/2013 10:53:47 AM · #31

that's just nuts

colorcarnival

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05/07/2013 10:54:46 AM · #32

Originally posted by FourPointX:

Originally posted by tome:

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by Strikeslip:
. . .

Tome is the only English speaking person in Macedonia, and would be very lonely if it weren't for his heard of sheep.

. . .

And I'll bet he can spell "herd"

Hey, I herd that!

those macadamians here everything

They might be a little nutty too :)

05/07/2013 01:22:20 PM · #33

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by hahn23:
I'm a little confused as to what you are asking of the voting membership. Do you want us to vote artifically high on your teams entries? Or, do you want us to suppress the scores of your competition? Or, both?

Or neither. I think they are just joking around.

Oh, I'm sure they're just joking around. Or, maybe the TPL participants have the idea that voting is a team activity? At least we will get a long break (one or two years, I hope) from TPL after the final round is finished.

05/07/2013 01:26:47 PM · #34

Originally posted by hahn23:

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by hahn23:
I'm a little confused as to what you are asking of the voting membership. Do you want us to vote artifically high on your teams entries? Or, do you want us to suppress the scores of your competition? Or, both?

Or neither. I think they are just joking around.

Oh, I'm sure they're just joking around. Or, maybe the TPL participants have the idea that voting is a team activity? At least we will get a long break (one or two years, I hope) from TPL after the final round is finished.

I seriously doubt anyone involved in TPL viewed voting as a team activity. I'm so tired of this unsubstantiated dribble. Run along now so we can get back to the light hearted banter where everyone gets along as friends without casting aspersions.

05/07/2013 01:27:57 PM · #35

In light of the foregoing, may I suggest a TPL start date in two weeks.

MarkB

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05/07/2013 01:38:46 PM · #36

Originally posted by Yandrosxx:

In light of the foregoing, may I suggest a TPL start date in two weeks.

+1

Number of entries during TPL typically exceeded 100. Now we seem to be in the 50's to 80's.

Message edited by author 2013-05-07 13:39:09.

05/07/2013 02:01:21 PM · #37

Originally posted by Yandrosxx:

Originally posted by hahn23:

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by hahn23:
I'm a little confused as to what you are asking of the voting membership. Do you want us to vote artifically high on your teams entries? Or, do you want us to suppress the scores of your competition? Or, both?

Or neither. I think they are just joking around.

Oh, I'm sure they're just joking around. Or, maybe the TPL participants have the idea that voting is a team activity? At least we will get a long break (one or two years, I hope) from TPL after the final round is finished.

I seriously doubt anyone involved in TPL viewed voting as a team activity. I'm so tired of this unsubstantiated dribble. Run along now so we can get back to the light hearted banter where everyone gets along as friends without casting aspersions.

The current forum topic is prima facie evidence of the thing you deny. The matter appears to be self-evident from the facts.

05/07/2013 02:05:00 PM · #38

Originally posted by hahn23:

Originally posted by Yandrosxx:

Originally posted by hahn23:

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by hahn23:
I'm a little confused as to what you are asking of the voting membership. Do you want us to vote artifically high on your teams entries? Or, do you want us to suppress the scores of your competition? Or, both?

Or neither. I think they are just joking around.

Oh, I'm sure they're just joking around. Or, maybe the TPL participants have the idea that voting is a team activity? At least we will get a long break (one or two years, I hope) from TPL after the final round is finished.

I seriously doubt anyone involved in TPL viewed voting as a team activity. I'm so tired of this unsubstantiated dribble. Run along now so we can get back to the light hearted banter where everyone gets along as friends without casting aspersions.

The current forum topic is prima facie evidence of the thing you deny. The matter appears to be self-evident from the facts.

We're joking. Holy shite! You need that explained to you?

bhuge

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05/07/2013 02:05:57 PM · #39

Originally posted by hahn23:

The current forum topic is prima facie evidence of the thing you deny. The matter appears to be self-evident from the facts.

How is it even possible that you read the original post and honestly took it seriously? It's called humor, not a call for vote manipulation.

05/07/2013 02:07:11 PM · #40

Originally posted by Yandrosxx:

Originally posted by hahn23:

Originally posted by Yandrosxx:

Originally posted by hahn23:

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by hahn23:
I'm a little confused as to what you are asking of the voting membership. Do you want us to vote artifically high on your teams entries? Or, do you want us to suppress the scores of your competition? Or, both?

Or neither. I think they are just joking around.

Oh, I'm sure they're just joking around. Or, maybe the TPL participants have the idea that voting is a team activity? At least we will get a long break (one or two years, I hope) from TPL after the final round is finished.

I seriously doubt anyone involved in TPL viewed voting as a team activity. I'm so tired of this unsubstantiated dribble. Run along now so we can get back to the light hearted banter where everyone gets along as friends without casting aspersions.

The current forum topic is prima facie evidence of the thing you deny. The matter appears to be self-evident from the facts.

We're joking. Holy shite! You need that explained to you?

Hey, slippy, your slipping as your humor is apparently prima facie evidence of a voting conspiracy.

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05/07/2013 02:09:23 PM · #41

Originally posted by bhuge:

Originally posted by hahn23:
The current forum topic is prima facie evidence of the thing you deny. The matter appears to be self-evident from the facts.

How is it even possible that you read the original post and honestly took it seriously? It's called humor, not a call for vote manipulation.

Now, now. I totally understand how someone can misunderstand slippy's humor. He's really not that funny after all.

However, I'm utterly flummoxed at how someone confused Homer Simpson's wagging *SS as anything other than humor.

Cory

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05/07/2013 02:12:23 PM · #42

Originally posted by bhuge:

I just wonder if he also really thought Garry was really an avid STD collector?

Richard, you know I like ya, and consider you a friend, but surely you're not being serious here? It's been demonstrated that voting trends aren't off, it's pretty obvious this is just a joke, from a team of very successful jokers.

If you really do think there was anomalous voting going on, you should do two things, the first is to really work out what evidence you have of this, and the second is to present that information to both the administrators of DPC so they can take action, and to the TPL team so we can consider ways to mitigate the problems you propose exist.

Garry

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05/07/2013 02:12:32 PM · #43

Oh. Wait. Slippy was joking? I seriously interpreted this thread as vote solicitation. How'd I miss that?

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05/07/2013 02:13:11 PM · #44

You TPL types are pretty intense and intolerant. I don't care if you cut each others' throats. But, it's the collateral damage to non-TPL participants which hurts the photo contest site. Maybe you should think of a way to completely segregate your TPL activity and votes from those who have opted to not participate. Like, make your activity a side-challenge. Or, have the admin assign specific and particular challenge topics for TPL members only. Or, give us only periodic TPL competitions... with long periods of non-team activity in between.

Cory

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV

05/07/2013 02:13:32 PM · #45

Originally posted by Garry:

Oh. Wait. Slippy was joking? I seriously interpreted this thread as vote solicitation. How'd I miss that?

The STD collection has probably started to affect your brain.

Cory

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05/07/2013 02:14:56 PM · #46

Originally posted by hahn23:

Intolerant? Of what?!

Richard, I appreciate that you feel something is going on here, but you haven't actually demonstrated any factual trends.

Show me the data brother, show me the data!

Garry

Canon EOS-7D

05/07/2013 02:16:18 PM · #47

Originally posted by Cory:

Originally posted by Garry:
Oh. Wait. Slippy was joking? I seriously interpreted this thread as vote solicitation. How'd I miss that?

The STD collection has probably started to affect your brain.

syphilis will do that. I thought I was passed that stage. Dammit.

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05/07/2013 02:21:01 PM · #48

Originally posted by Cory:

Originally posted by hahn23:
You TPL types are pretty intense and intolerant. I don't care if you cut each others' throats. But, it's the collateral damage to non-TPL participants which hurts the photo contest site. Maybe you should think of a way to completely segregate your TPL activity and votes from those who have opted to not participate. Like, make your activity a side-challenge. Or, have the admin assign specific and particular challenge topics for TPL members only. Or, give us only periodic TPL competitions... with long periods of non-team activity in between.

Intolerant? Of what?!

Richard, I appreciate that you feel something is going on here, but you haven't actually demonstrated any factual trends.

Show me the data brother, show me the data!

The only thing that protects the site is the transparency of the data to the SC and Admin. I assume they are doing their job. I trust them to monitor. Until I hear differently, I'll assume they found no evidence of team voting.

nygold

Nikon D5000

05/07/2013 02:21:14 PM · #49

Before the TPL there was alot of talk of scoring issues that would arise, so I ramdomly selected about 2 dozen TPL participants and wrote down their
Ave vote cast. Turns out that only one had an average that went down. That persons Ave vote cast went from 5.00 to 4.99.
While I understand this is just a handfull of people I think it makes a good point.

Message edited by author 2013-05-07 14:34:52.