The great uniter...
...must be barbecue. Stamey's is not only the president's choice for barbecue and slaw but is also the Triad's, or at least the people who voted in our annual Readers' Choice Awards. Dozens of categories. Many choices I personally agree with; many are as odd as a Texan enjoying pork barbecue.
By the way, two years ago, the best blog was Cone's. Last year, Hoggard. This year, Eugene Sims of Rock 92.
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I hope this isn't using the same software you guys used to run voting the last time I looked at it. About six months back.
Because if it is, you do realize that you can game the system. Big time. I've seen people do it for some contest you guys had where you needed people to vote on which was the best or something. I forget offhand.
If it is still the same software, then the results technically could be skewed in any which direction.
Posted on October 19, 2006 11:45 AM
While I'm thinking about it, ever since couple days ago, N&R blogs have bad templates (template is blank). I hope you guys upgraded the MT to 3.3 since there has been some mandatory security fixes.
Posted on October 19, 2006 11:47 AM
Agreed, at 12:45 templates seem offline (or the backend is horked) but the content is there.
Posted on October 19, 2006 12:48 PM
One of our vendors passed along updated addressing information for www.news-record.com, and we dutifully passed it on to the DNS service provider for the domain. Unfortunately, they gave us the wrong information, and we're trying to get our DNS provider to fix the problem. In the meantime, we're having to redirect all of our traffic directly to our load balancer by its hostname.
Unfortunately, it's impacting any site that pulls elements from www.news-record.com -- including the blogs. And as DNS is an antiquated relic of a bygone age and changes consequently take forever to propagate fully... please bear with us.
I'm not sure what contest you're referring to, darkmoon -- I can't think of anything 6 mos. ago, off hand -- but we made a good faith effort to make it at least a little difficult to game Readers' Choice, and there was a fair amount of manual review of the submissions to identify and ameliorate the effects of ballot stuffing. Granted, we'd never try to make the case that it was a statistically valid survey.
Posted on October 19, 2006 1:24 PM
John,
Based on the fact that Arigato swept like nine categories, I'm thinking somebody was stuffing the ballot box. Of course, the other possibility is that the number of reader responses was very low. How many readers submitted choices anyway?
Posted on October 20, 2006 1:29 PM
Not sure how many responses we got, but I'd guess it was in the thousands. And yes, it was possible to stuff the ballot box...we didn't have voter registration on anything.
Posted on October 20, 2006 2:30 PM