OT: Voting Statistics and general amusement
Amusingly, the introduction of voting statistics has introduced a new phenomena. Instead of having someone go through 10-15 of my posts at a time and neg them over the course of three minutes, someone went through a page of my posts and posbanged them.
The introduction of voting statistics is leading past transgressors to atone for their sins. I would make a political comment here, but it would be in poor taste and out of place.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 PM ^
voting is ridiculous. i had 86 points one day then the next i had around 16 and i hadn't even posted any comments.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:39 PM ^
Wow, who would want to spend that much time negging you?
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:41 PM ^
I think the person who negs the highest percentage of their posts (minimum 500 votes) has about a 16% posbang rate (plus/total). That's quite a negative nancy right there.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 PM ^
should not be allowed to pos/neg here, IMHO.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:04 PM ^
I thought I saw someone with like 1200 votes and a -1120 which meant they handed out 40 whole +1s, but they seem to have corrected that since the Leaderboard went up lol
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:26 PM ^
Still not entirely sure what it all means. I get that "Voting Statistics" tells me how many times I've voted and what the sum of those votes is, but I have no idea how to find myself on the list... I want to know if I'm a negative nancy or not!
Also, I find it interesting that some of my perceptions of people were way off. I would not have guessed Magnus would have a positive sum because he does a lot of good work keeping people in line. Any other surprises in there people have noticed?
EDIT: Found myself. Evidently I'm a dick.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:26 PM ^
You can sort alphabetically and "next page" or jump page until you find yourself. That is the quickest way I found my own voting stats.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 PM ^
Heh, I lost 240 in one post.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 PM ^
I guess from now on, instead of neg banging, I should click reply, type STFU and then upvote myself.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 PM ^
STFU
Edit: No. I waited for it. It wasn't very gratifying.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:01 PM ^
OK good. Back to my regularly scheduled neg banging.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:10 PM ^
Apparently I am a pretty nice guy (sum of 307).
Mwahahahaha, I've fooled you all!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:12 PM ^
I'm surprised how much I have voted, top 5. I posbong a lot, plus 2,000.
This should help with the voting a lot.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:38 PM ^
I'll admit I'm a little confused after looking at my voting statistics/tracking... I clicked on a couple of random threads that say I negged someone and I actually gave people up votes.
Really the more that I think about it the only person I really neg is King of Belch, but in all fairness he's usually asking for it.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:33 PM ^
I agree. It's not really a negbang if their asking for it.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 PM ^
Seems like CPS and psychomatt do not like many people here..
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 PM ^
CPS has a high neg value, but it's not that big compared to his total number of votes.
CPS pluses people 36.7% of his votes. psychomatt pluses at 12.7%.
I don't think your rate should say anything about you. Some may just neg truly bad post and not posbang anything except the exceptional.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:05 PM ^
I feel like I should neg you for voting more than me.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:11 PM ^
I feel like you should because I've got 1000 more points than the next user, with Brian being the only one higher than me.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 PM ^
Do you get lonely when you're away from your computer, poindexter?
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:20 PM ^
So ronery.
Part of it has to do with an influx of diaries and a couple posting binges. I gained 2k in 5 days. It was nuts.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 PM ^
I assume that after a hard night of binge posting you wake up naked in a library or something. You are a points junkie
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:35 PM ^
I am a junkie as well. I am about to gain my 500th point, mo-fos.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 PM ^
and there it goes back to 499
j/k I +1 you
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 PM ^
Maybe the rating system needs to add some Rapidshare-style limitations.
"You must wait 500 seconds before you are able to neg again".
November 5th, 2009 at 3:16 AM ^
agreed.. I suggested this in another thread and got -10 points for it..
November 4th, 2009 at 12:44 AM ^
1178 Total, +778. I need to be more of an asshole.
Also, I looked through every single page to try and find me (there are 49 pages) and I just now realized I was on the first page of +/-
November 4th, 2009 at 1:47 AM ^
Sometimes I feel like I'm excessively negative, so I was surprised that I'm healthily in the positive overall. Also, not that I care, but didn't Chitown talk a few times about how it would take extraordinary circumstances to neg someone? I noticed he has a negative total.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:32 AM ^
I'd argue that there has been some extraordinary posts deserving negbangs. That, and the occasional negbang threads that we start just to negbang each other. There's been at least 3 or 4 of them. That's easily -120 in negbangs right there.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:50 PM ^
Most of my neg-votes come from two negbang threads, and negging every single thing I see elnolewis post. Because I HATE potato salad and chimpanzees.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:53 AM ^
I didn't know about the negparty's til I saw found one of the threads yesterday. Why don't I ever get invited to what the cool kid's are doing!?
November 5th, 2009 at 9:59 AM ^
If you have to ask, well, I think you know how the rest goes...
November 4th, 2009 at 2:33 AM ^
I'm brand new to this...how do you get to "neg-bang", or "pos-bang" someone NO HOMO????
November 4th, 2009 at 5:37 PM ^
Carry on, nothing to see here.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:56 AM ^
haha, oh the eagerness to negbang. +1 because I'm all about enthusiasm.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:31 AM ^
Pardon my ignorance, but how exactly does one look up their +/- relative to points/posts?
I don't really pay attention to these technicalities all that often.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:14 AM ^
When I look at my voting history, it has my most recent vote as nearly a week ago, which isn't correct, and then quickly goes back to 4 weeks ago. I'm a bit confused.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:27 AM ^
I checked mine earlier. +1'd someone for no reason. It showed up on there immediately.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:42 AM ^
I just plussed a few people for funny posts and gave it a minute, then checked my voting details and still nothing before 6 days ago.
Not a big deal by any means, just a bit weird.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:19 PM ^
I didn't realize the new tab under "My Account" titled "Your Votes."
When I clicked on that tab, I too only had a small portion of the points I have given out (with the last over 3 weeks ago). I only have 2 pages worth of votes, where it should be, I don't know, 10 times that.
After looking at a number of these threads, they all had one thing in common - I had up or down voted the OP post.
So I can only deduce that, when you look at "Your Votes" its the your votes you've made on original postings like a diary or a board post, only.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:25 PM ^
Yeah, I think that's the case. There is a track and voting record tab on the top of posts for moderators now. We can see how many people visit the page and what mgoblog page they went to as well as who voted each OP post up or down.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:46 PM ^
Now that I look at that page again I see what you are saying. Good catch!
November 4th, 2009 at 8:49 AM ^
I'm negging everyone in this thread for talking about points.
/not really
November 4th, 2009 at 12:11 PM ^
Everyone should love me for how much I posbang
November 4th, 2009 at 12:18 PM ^
Honestly, it was the first thing I noticed when I first saw the stats.
New avatar?
November 4th, 2009 at 12:22 PM ^
Pensive Sheridan seems to have lost his charms, I've turned to SQUADALA for some much needed luck.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:39 PM ^
Yeah, mine too. Brodie is a cuddly teddy bear or something.
And CPS loves voting. And there are a bunch of folks that don't post much, but vote all the time.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:08 PM ^
n. someone who doesn't post much, but votes all the time
usage: It's a pretty quiet night on MGoBlog, only three posters and a half-dozen LurkBangers.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:33 PM ^
I'm pretty pleased that this info is out there for us now. I had mentioned that there were more thank likely some users teetering at the 20 point or so mark, providing very little content who were abusing the -1 power (see FrankR05).