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Fistpaladinsmall
TacticAngel TALK 22:35, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
A few thoughts:
  • I am rather concerned about the distribution of votes recently, particularly in the last two weeks, and this goes far beyond the unfortunate undereducated opinion that a gun-blade is a unique or innovative weapon or the fact that Tifa is not annihilating Rinoa as anyone would expect.
  • There seems to be a rather heavy bias of unregistered voters in the last two weeks, voting more than 2 to 1 for one candidate or the other in spite of relatively close registered user votes.
  • Last week this was accompanied by a number of illegal votes, generally in the form of anons voting as users, rather significantly weighted towards the winner of the competition, who also go the heavy favor of anonymous users.
  • I do pay attention to these things. Considering the choice to register is arbitrary, it is improbable that a sample of 76 people would break 38 for Tifa and 38 for Rinoa, while another completely random sample would break 17 Tifa and 6 Rinoa.
  • There's no accounting for taste.

Long and short of it, if the trend continues, it is likely that only registered users will be allowed to participate in the DNC.

Itadaki-Cloud2
Itadaki-Cloud2
FFXV Noctis
Squall Leonhart 2
FFXV Noctis
Fistpaladinsmall
TacticAngel TALK 22:52, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
As Faethin has pointed out, you guys are reading things backwards. Its a very easy argument that Tifa should beat Rinoa, one so obvious I will not go into length about it now. The fact is that she isn't, until you count all the anonymous votes, when she easily edges out the 10% margin. Likewise, Gunblade would have won without anonymous help, but the ratio that anons broke for gunblade versus registered users was just ridiculous. Any commentary in addition to this that I provided above was simply a tongue in cheek reference to fact versus the major argument for gunblades. There were times when, in the last two weeks, both of the winners were losing in registered voter tallies (by an insignificant margin) but had more than enough anonymous support to place them the winner. This doesn't seem too democratic to me.

Ultimately, if you look at the facts, my concern with the voting has very little to do with neither what I think of the opinions of others as they compare to my own nor the level of education of the our users, and much more to do with creating a fair, actionable policy.

As for what Alarielle said, aberrant is a word in English, which just happens to mean exactly what it does in French, as they both come from ab-errarre, latin for 'to wander.'

Mai contribution:
Anons: They are like the users, but more fan-person-ish. So they would give Tifa a stack of votes, and yet, they didn't. Could be some form of cheating going on, easily cloaked by varying IPs.
Thing is, protecting and not allowing anons to vote will cause a bigger spree of users signing up for the DNC and nothing else. It may also attract more users who may also contribute, somehow I don't see that happening. Although I did originally sign up for one of the "best of" competitions; that's not why I became an editor here, two separate reasons (well, the second coming was for two reasons).
In the end, I'm for protecting the page and disallowing IPs from voting. Doesn't matter, I don't actually care about the DNC.  ILHI 23:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Galbana-ffxiirw
RedWizard-ff1-psp
Some Color Mage / Talk Contribs / / No time. I don't really care.
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Just to shoot a hole in the red-link user thing: the lowest level of protection is autoconfirmed which, IIRC, requires a 4 day wait and at least 10 edits. This basically means that the DNC would be a privilege for those that are either helpful or social.
FFXV Noctis
MogFf9sprite
RedWizard-ff1-psp
Some Color Mage / Talk Contribs / / No time. I don't really care.
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It's not my idea. MediaWiki is automatically coded to do that. I was just stating the facts.
CSM
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