Beta Awards 07: Winners Announced

RalphVboy · Post by **RalphVboy** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:27 pm

wELCOME cONSUMER wrote:I guess you didn't hear about the cash prize?

"Big Money! Big Prizes! I love it!"

*patiently waits for someone to say where that line is from*

- RalphVBoy

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:27 pm

So do a lot of other people.

wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:32 pm

RalphVboy wrote:
wELCOME cONSUMER wrote:I guess you didn't hear about the cash prize?
"Big Money! Big Prizes! I love it!"

*patiently waits for someone to say where that line is from*

- RalphVBoy

Niiiiiice Ralphy.

Smash TV, I LOVE that game! Total Carnage is fun too. So awesome. :yourock:

Blaster · Post by **Blaster** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:37 am

Submitted my vote.

There were so many great cels!

transmet · Post by **transmet** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:32 am

wELCOME cONSUMER wrote:I guess you didn't hear about the cash prize?

Yeah, that didn't quite come out the way I meant... sorry.

Was just trying to establish a little perspective.

But now that you're talking mad-money prizes, well that changes everything.
Come on now - Big Money - No Whammies!! (Old-Skool

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wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:09 am

I'm just teasing you.

You know I completely agree with you.

I used to love Press Your Luck because the Whammy was (crudely) animated.

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:47 am

Just so everyone knows I WILL be checking account usernames against ballots I received. Any duplicates will be thrown out and a message will be sent by me to the suspected party. At that point it will be a case by case basis. But I don't suspect many, if any at all, problems aside from the one that Toni found.

Also as I found you cannot submit an incomplete ballot. If you have submitted a ballot and you realize later you made a mistake please message me first, I will delete your original ballot and you can submit another.

Easy peasy

Did I hear cash prize?

Who's cash?

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:47 am

But I don't have it.

klet · Post by **klet** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:11 pm

SME wrote:I was wondering that myself. As much as I'd love to think that everyone who votes is going to be honest and use only their ID name, a few known individuals may try to ruin it by looking up names that were rarely used, or worse yet, use a current someone's ID as their own.

Known people? Like, you have specific people in mind you think might do this?

Honestly, it never crossed my mind before. Now that I think about it, though . . .

EternityOfPain · Post by **EternityOfPain** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:35 pm

I thought of that problem as well. Here is several solutions for the individuals in charge:

1. For every ID, check Beta to see when that individual last logined in. Chances are if a persons ID hasn't logined in beta in over a month they wouldn't have even seen the beta awards and there obviously a fake.

2. Any duplicates simply contact the person to resubmit a new one and then prompt to email one of the individuals in charge so they can verify that you are indeed the person who just submited there ballot.

This should solve this problem.

Zetsuai · Post by **Zetsuai** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:42 pm

EternityOfPain wrote:1. For every ID, check Beta to see when that individual last logined in. Chances are if a persons ID hasn't logined in beta in over a month they wouldn't have even seen the beta awards and there obviously a fake.

This should solve this problem.

will not solve the problem, if this person created an account extra for double-voting and could log in whenever he/she wants to pretend its real ... (-.-) ...

by the way ... if I know that earlier I would have included an IP-request or something like that in the voting form ... (>.<) ... I never would have guessed that this would be necessary ...

it's already on my todo-list for next year ...

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thanks for letting me know the problem with the romance-category ... problem is solved ... I oversaw a little thing ... sorry!!!

zerospace · Post by **zerospace** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:00 pm

You could actually do some pretty crafty things to make this less of an issue for future years:

1. Host the awards on Anime-Beta & make people log in through the forum in order to vote, thus capturing their username rather than allowing them to type it in. (This is rather far-fetched, of course, since the admins don't want to handle the awards and I don't blame them).

2. Have a script keep track of the votes for you and generate a file with all the original data (for verification that the system works later and for disputes). Logging the user's IP won't really help unless you have his/her IP from their last Beta login to compare with--only Beta mods and admins have this information. What you COULD do instead is set up an email confirmation system--the email address entered on the vote form must match the Beta member's registered email. You then send a confirmation email to the voter and they need to click a link in order to make their votes actually count. This kind of system can also ease the work load on the vote counter(s) since such a script would also be able to count votes as well ^_~.

Zetsuai · Post by **Zetsuai** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:07 pm

I had the IP-thing only in mind for double-voters, who are voting in a row, so it would be more clearly and easier to find them ...

Silvrdrago · Post by **Silvrdrago** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:14 pm

Just thought id make the observation that isn't it sad were haveing this discusion?

Added onto the fact someones already been busted.......Sad.

Ah Well I'm sure we'll have fun anyway!!

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:14 pm

No I am as happy as ever.