02-08-12 – Apples vs. Oranges 2: The Rematch

That’s some fine analysis there Lou (I mean CISS).

Ok, here’s what I don’t understand. In all the other threads, voting is enabled for everything, so why is the default for Farktography voting-disabled?

Also, I liked the single choice voting better. As it is, I don’t vote for “best”. I vote for “good enough”. I’m very liberal with my votes.

As I’ve said before, I do all that for my own enjoyment, so the fact that y’all dig it, too, is icing on the cake. Thanks everyone.

Els, I’ll be happy to submit what I can and try to make a case, but that’s also the problem with the data – it’s hard to make a solid case with it. There’s so much variance across contests and times of year and phases of the moon or whatever and we really have relatively few data points, especially of post-change contests. Maybe when we get a few more in some real trends will start to shake out. The Bacon & AvO contests show some real deviations, but I haven’t looked at all of the past contests in that level of detail to see if they’re an anomoly limited to the new voting system or if they just popup every now and then.

Cuda, I appreciate the offer and I’ll take you up on it if I run into anything. I’ve got limited experience in web coding (the presentation side, anyway), so it’s possible. Likewise, if you ever get a block of time, get bored, and feel like working on something with no monetary reward or practical applications ;), gimme a shout as there’s plenty I’d like to do on Bibliostats.

Elsinore wrote:
They had me until the Babylon 5 craft……
CISS wrote”
Yeah, never got into that one myself. I do likes me some Trek & Firefly. The original 3 SW’s are quite enjoyable as well, although I consider them more sci-fantasy than -fiction.

Watch it. B5 is my favorite all time tv series ever.

Ok, here’s what I don’t understand. In all the other threads, voting is enabled for everything, so why is the default for Farktography voting-disabled?

There’s a specific contests category we select when we create the link to the contest. It tells the thread to make voting an option-enabled feature. Why? So we don’t wind up getting votes on people’s comments vs. actual contest entries, and so you can post pictures in the thread without enabling them for voting (as sometimes people do when it’s a shot that doesn’t follow Farktography rules but they want to share it anyway).

Elsinore wrote:
They had me until the Babylon 5 craft……
CISS wrote”
Yeah, never got into that one myself. I do likes me some Trek & Firefly. The original 3 SW’s are quite enjoyable as well, although I consider them more sci-fantasy than -fiction.

Watch it. B5 is my favorite all time tv series ever.

I tried to watch it. 😆 My inlaws loved it. Zeke and I just couldn’t get into it.

Start in Season 3. Get hooked into the shadow war. Then go back and for the pre-story so you don’t get all WTF when the, ummm….. significant change happens.

/You don’t come back from Za’Hadun

What’s Babylon 5?

…said the apple, to the orange…