General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby CorpseGoddess » Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:20 pm

lokitocatracho wrote:But what about the risk that friends from the participants may influence the audience? One time that happened in an anime fest here


How many real-life friends could amv editors possibly hope to bring to a competition? Enough to sway a vote?

Are we even *allowed* to have that many friends with this sort of high-level geekery? :shock:
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby HalOfBorg » Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:39 pm

Wait..... some of us have friends?? Like real people?

WOAH.
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby JaddziaDax » Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:37 pm

i dont know anyone here, yet i managed to take home an audience vote >.>
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sun Apr 03, 2011 1:10 am

I've actually had someone try to rig a vote like that when my contest (AAC) was somewhat smaller. It's amazing what a group of friends accosting people for votes can sway things when you only have 100 or fewer ballots turned in.
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby Castor Troy » Sun Apr 03, 2011 1:46 pm

HalOfBorg wrote:Wait..... some of us have friends?? Like real people?

WOAH.


Silly org.

amv editors don't have real life friends!
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby Kawatta-kun » Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:59 pm

I like to think about that, if they are REAL friends, or at least REAL people will vote for THEIR favorite and not just to please their friends.
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby TritioAFB » Sun Apr 03, 2011 4:06 pm

Heh, you got my point. I actually remember one Iron Chef we hold during a contest: Me vrs 7 editors, though none of my friends vote me D:

And the worst thing is that I even win without using all my best footage and softwares
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby purplepolecat » Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:16 pm

SMS voting would be really convenient in some ways, but it leaves the process open to a whole new class of haxor shenanigans; more importantly, it makes it very difficult for the organizers to prove that there were no haxor shenanigans.

Considering that there's already always one entrant at every contest who feels they got dicked, organizers need to provide some kind of assurance that the voting process is above board, and paper ballots are the best way to achieve that. Paper makes it very difficult to cheat on a large scale.
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby Nya-chan Production » Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:22 pm

There's always the sound measurement of the clapping, then :>
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:53 pm

SMS voting is a neat idea... until you realize you can easily set up 100 gmail accounts with google voice in an afternoon and set them to auto-forward messages that will all seem like they come from unique sources.
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby JaddziaDax » Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:17 pm

how about this: if you find out that so and so is having his friends go around telling people to vote for whatever, then ban him/her from future contests weather or not he/she manages to rig the contest.
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby Kawatta-kun » Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:43 pm

^ it's a cool one indeed.

I moight just do the impressed form sheet ^^
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Re: General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

Postby TritioAFB » Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:50 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:how about this: if you find out that so and so is having his friends go around telling people to vote for whatever, then ban him/her from future contests weather or not he/she manages to rig the contest.


Wise words my friend :up:
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