http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/whitneyhouston6.shtml

I think the 23 votes is just a tad noticable...

Hmmm...23 votes still seems to be within the realm of the reasonable, for one day... :-/

Well, yeah, but they're almost all 5s... and this artist had trouble for voting fraud before, so I figure this was the case again.

i think it was actually cheese and bacon not ham and eggs who had the voting problem but i'm a bit suspicious of these voting totals

I'm not even warning these people anymore.. it's not worth the effort on my part, I just purge their parody, it's easier than dealing with removing the bogus votes.. if they want to submit it again, that's fine..

Sorry Tone-Def, you're right... my bad.  

Still, I thought it looked suspicious.

They probably just changed their name so that we would think they were different people. It's still breakfast food...

Just to make things clear for a newbie like me, what do you guys consider cheating. I mean, repeated voting for your own song are an obvious cheat, but beyond that.

Here´s what I do, please tell me if you think it´s wrong, when I have a new song up, I´ll vote for it once myself, and even though I realise I´m partial I try to be just, I selldom give 5-5-5 but since I strife for funniness I often give 5 in that category, and 4 (sometimes 3, never lower) in the other two categories.

Then I paste the URL´s of the songs and mail some friends, and/or put them up on another forum, and tell them to "check out my new song, and if you like it please vote for it".

They sometimes do, even though I think they are getting a bit tired of me asking this, cos what looked like a fad has turned out into a much stronger obsession from my side. :-)

Now, the forum versin of this means that more than one ppl comes into the page via the same link. I don´t know how you register vote, but I hope you don´t consider that as a no-no.

Also, up intil a month ago, and again during this upcoming winter, I sat / will sit in a LAN with two of those persons that I asked to vote for my songs. They weren´t that terribly exicited but I know that they did vote on some of them. Will that be counted as cheating too, looking like repeated voting since all three of us came to the page from the same IP-adress (If I understand correctly how things work, which I can´t guarantee) :-)

Anyway, clearifications are welcomed.

 //  Peter

What Snaggletoth described sounds pretty normal. Pip and I each vote on ours, then I have 3 regular friends I send the URL's to, although one doesn't always get around to voting. And Pip gives the info to some co-workers, most of whom are voting from the same ISP at work. I think they vote more or less sporadically. And a several of the board members regularly check ours out.

One thing I've noticed though that is very annoying - a 'one' vote seems to do more damage proportionally than several 'fives' will do good. I've watched some of our parodies after they have been hit by the 'one guy' and even after several days and a few fives, they are never back up to where they were before the 'one' hit... it is very frustrating. Chucky why is that? ???