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Please chuck dont take the top 10, its our trl :'(, please be our Carson.  ;D
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Yeah, but if people want to abuse, it, that's what happens; everyone suffers the consequences...

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My house has several computers on an intranet, and so does my lab.  What I do is show people my parodies and ask them to vote honestly on different computers.  I wonder if this constitutes voter fraud, since technically, all those computers belong to me?  ???
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it could, if you had 70 people vote on a single parody, like one of the parodies did yesterday...

I only announce the removal of the top tens as a last resort.. if I have to deal with nonsense like this every day, or every week, it's going to kill it..

I'd like to think parody authors want to see how well their parody is received, not necessarily how much better it performs compared to other parodies on the site..

as the site gets more popular.. it's quite possible that stuff like this will happen more often.. the only other option is to create a verified user system, make people sign up for accounts to vote. There's still an element of fraud possible, but it's less easy to cause problems with a system like that.. unfortunately, it would mean a lot fewer votes from site visitors.. and I know that casual site visitors will be less likely to go through the hassle of signing up for an account just to leave a vote on someone's parody.. and if I moved to a verified voter type scheme, I would have to restart vote counts in order to be fair, and that means a lot of parodies will probably never see any votes..

I even thought about maybe a committee of parody authors to review new parodies on the site, but with over 30 new parodies a day, I doubt anyone wants to sign up for reading every new parody to hit the site each day..

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If the purpose of the voter fraud is to ruin things for legitamate authors then taking away the voting results achieves their goal for them.
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yeah, but why would someone cheat to have them removed? they're not really used prominently on the site anymore... that's why I don't understand why these people did it..

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I know my "Osama Got Run Over by a Reindeer" has been in the top 10 lately, and that song's a year old!  I know I haven't been stuffing the ballot box on that one!  Because if I did, I would come right out and admit it!
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oh your the author of me and S.T.G's parody competition, you have to admit we had a good run on you for a while. but yeah this one dude hasnt got to hit it yet its a big thing to us non S.T.G./TONG parody authors.

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william tong is probably going to have a field day dissing whoever did this
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I'm sure he would, if he knew who did it.. it looked like two people.. and one would always vote badly, the other positive.. so who knows, maybe someone was trying to defend his honor or something.. all I know is it wasted twenty minutes of my day when I was I was working on something else

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Billy,

I would have left some feedback on some of your older parodies (Swedish Fish, for example), but they don't have the comments activated.  Might want to ask Chuck to put the comments section on all of your older parodies...I've gotten comments from people just surfing the site who happen to hit them.  As well as from the "group" here (thanks!)
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Thank you Jeff, I probably should get Chuck to add the comments form to my old parodies..thats a good idea.  

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My house has several computers on an intranet, and so does my lab.
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I have three computers right next to me, and about a dozen more in the building with VNC (that's remote control software) installed, so in theory I could vote fifteen times without even leaving my seat :-)

...and if you include different browsers (seeing as voting details are cookie-based), I've got four on this machine (Opera, Mosaic, Netscape and some bit of bloatware full of security holes which I only use if I absolutely have to)... hell I could get my vote counts as high as Tongs if I really wanted to.  But that's not really the point, is it?  

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does anybody have alot of comments?
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Depends what you'd call a lot: I think there's about twenty that I didn't write, and I've added about half that number - though a thought occurred to me, in that it would be quite interesting to be able to see what other comments someone has submitted (i.e. to be able to view comments by commentor) - what do you say, Chucky?


Phil

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Depends what you'd call a lot: I think there's about twenty that I didn't write, and I've added about half that number - though a thought occurred to me, in that it would be quite interesting to be able to see what other comments someone has submitted (i.e. to be able to view comments by commentor) - what do you say, Chucky?
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I don't know about that.. since I don't really have a secure username function, where it insures that the same person always uses the same name, it could cause problems with people leaving bad comments using a similar name as someone else.. I did have plans to make a sign up for account type thing (based on email address) for people to use for leaving comments.. but since it isn't a really popular function yet, I've decided against spending time on it. Better to focus my efforts on features people use heavily..

there's only maybe twenty comments left on the entire site every day, so it's still not really popular or anything.. I did put a link on author pages at the bottom of their parody listings so you can see all the comments left for your parodies at a glance..

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but since it isn't a really popular function yet, I've decided against spending time on it. Better to focus my efforts on features people use heavily..
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I had a feeling you'd say that :-)  Still, nothing ventured...

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I did put a link on author pages at the bottom of their parody listings so you can see all the comments left for your parodies at a glance..
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I know - I scan it occasionally to see what people are saying about my parodies.

Phil