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You're the boss, Chucky.  If that's your final decision, then we all must accept it and remind ourselves that you do all the work to make Amiright possible - so none of us has a right to complain.

Now I'd like to offer an alternative...

The Messageboard has a "Poll" option.  It is possible to start a thread that allows people to cast votes on selections from a list of items...

If people still want to maintain some kind of "Voting Top Ten List", people are always free to start-up threads with polls structured to take the place - at least in a rough and approximate way - of the Top Ten Lists that Chucky G has decided to discontinue.
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 I agree...you are the boss here, CG.  It does disturb me when cheaters get to the top 10.  I use it some to verify how well my stuff is doing, but a long time ago you said to me to pay more attention to the comments...and they do teach me a lot.
 I think that a thread or poll would have the possibility of just continuing the same problem.  Were you thinking that it might be less of a problem on the messageboard, Johnny, because people would actually have to register?  That would help.  :)
 

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Were you thinking that it might be less of a problem on the messageboard, Johnny, because people would actually have to register?  That would help.  :)
 
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Adagio.... and ChuckyG if you're reading this....

That's a GREAT idea, Adagio.   If any such polls could be limited ONLY to people who are registered users, that might mitigate the cheating somewhat...if anyone has any other ideas, let's here them!

Perhaps another option would be to have some kind of "Invitational Poll" - some kind of polling-function where the voting-option would admit only a certain specified list of registered user-ID's.

That kind of "Invitational Poll", restricted to a pre-selected group of registered user-ID's, would greatly discourage cheating, for obvious reasons.....

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i like the the idea of a selective poll if it can technically be done... i'd say about 50 total with everyone who entered the march madness parody brackets along with a bunch of other people - my suggestions: billy florio, syncronos, wolveroses, indy gent, chuckyG, hairspray, royce miller, leibew15, junior, my name is kenny, merry, pippin, jim A, william tong... and i'm sure there are more
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Precisely, Ethan, precisely ... a selective "invitational" poll allowing only known registered users to participate would be highly resistant to cheating - especially if the polling software could detect a voter's registered-user-ID and prevent more than one vote from being cast by a given registered user in any given poll.

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Call me a killjoy, but I think a "top 10" concept here is all rather pointless, a lot of work for very little relevence to our lives.  I am kind of glad ChuckyG eliminated this feature. In the time I have submitted here, I never hit the Top 10, and i never could understand why.  Just the fact there was a Top 10 made me care about something I would never had missed if it wasn't there in the first place--knowwhatimean?

I would prefer to just leave the voting as a mark of quality from whomever happens to drop by and read our work.
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Agri, you're not a killjoy at all.

Your point is perfectly valid and true.

The whole "Top Ten" thing was always a joke, since - as ChuckyG has pointed out - there's basically no way to prevent cheating.....but it was a fun joke!

Anyway, the only reason I am offering the suggestion of a top-ten-like "poll" thread is for anyone who still wants to enjoy playing the top-ten game...that's all.

Comments are where all of us as readers and writers can really help each other and interact in a positive and constructive way.  Taking the time to write and post a comment on someone's parody can be a truly meaningful gesture of thoughtfulness...

...and sometimes it's just a friendly gesture of good humor and wisecracking good fun, too!

Johnny D :)

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Don't feel bad, philbo. My spoof about the Amiright One-ster is #13 even as we speak, and there's been one 5-5-5 vote since then.
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It was kind of a stage sigh... more for effect than any real sadness.  I was submitting parodies here before the top ten lists, and I'll carry on afterwards, too.

Phil
BTW, went and had a look at your Beverley Hillbillies parody - reckon it's gotta be close enough to the pacing (given that I don't know the original, but WTF), so I voted anyway :-)

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So it's always been a popularity contest.
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Well, I rarely made the weekly top tens, never had a number one, never made the monthly top tens or the all-time 100s... so thank you Mr. Popularity for bursting my little bubble of denial that it wasn't a popularity contest.

;D

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Mehli, I just meant that being on the list is no real indication of how good or bad your parody is, as Phil has said. I said that Mari and I started getting on the lists when we made friends and put recordings on. Some people may have more "outside" friends that give them a bump, and that's what Claude said. We like you and vote, but you're not rooting around in here every day like some of us are.
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Rick, I was joking!   But, since you brought it up, I did indeed "root around" every day for months on end and I probably will again, when I get the chance... not to drum up future votes, but because I enjoy it.   I've been quite pleased with the numbers I've had on my own parodies,  INCLUDING the 3s and 4s I've  earned fair and square, along the way.