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( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 13:56)
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Dear Mods.
A few weeks ago I posted this in the Famous People I Hate QOTW. Got a few laughs and, when Thursday rolled round, I checked the Best Of page and it seemed like I'd won. I was first. The top. Numero uno...
Then, mysteriously, I suddenly wasn't. That post just vanished from the "best of" page. (But if you click the link you'll see that the page it comes from is actually the "best of" - it just doesn't show up when you look at the actual "best of" page) Confused? I am.
Now the b3ta mods didn't see fit to tell me they were doing this. They didn't gaz or email me. They just hid the post and hoped nobody would notice.
Now I find this rich because they claim that they got rid of /all due to vote-rigging. It was unfair as some people were using /all to manipulate the votes so that they won the QOTW. After all, making the "best of" page should truly reflect the number of votes each post gets.
Yeah. Right.
Some come on Mods. Tell me, and the people who voted for me, why you saw fit to disqualify that post? And on what grounds? And why you didn't tell anyone?
Censorship on B3ta. Who'd have thought it....
Cheers
It's Thursday and the start of a new QOTW. A lot of people will have read this before you get round to deleting it. Your credibility is at stake
edit: Rob's given me an explanation that I'm happy with. The post in question wasn't about famous people (it was about me and SpankyHanky) which was why it was removed from the "best of" page. Case closed. Move along now - nothing to see here....
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:18, 71 replies)
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but moaning about it like a big girl is just making you seem like a bit of a needy tart
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:23, closed)
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To be honest, I don't give much of a fuck. That's why I didn't bother saying anything, on any of the boards, until now.
But when given a good feed line, and this QOTW seemed apt, I couldn't resist.
Cheers
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:25, closed)
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right here. Online.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 19:32, closed)
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although all the arguments about fixed challenges and bias etc. never get heard, either...
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:23, closed)
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'Impulse buys' I think.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:25, closed)
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If the mods are going to fiddle the results, can we have /all back please?
Cheers
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:27, closed)
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entered this into the "Movie Letter Switch" challenge. Was the most popular all week, but once the challenge closed, it disappeared altogether. Very bizarre.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:25, closed)
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but genuine office lols this time!
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:45, closed)
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Brilliant! *Clicks if there had been a button*
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 16:04, closed)
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But I can argue that QOTW "best of" page, and the popular pages on other the boards are supposed to reflect the number of B3ta members who clicked "I like this".
At least, that's the way everyone thinks it works. And, if you check the FAQ, that's what that says as well.
Cheers
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:34, closed)
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I've posted stories to QOTW and come the close, my post is exactly where I left it. Nowhere near the 'best' page.
Of course, this might be because I'm not very funny and nobody would click 'I like this' to anything I've previously posted.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:32, closed)
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I've also had stuff on the best page that's rather shite, but that's mainly because it's been a crap qotw and barely anyone has managed to get votes. I know the mods fiddle around a bit, but I don't believe it's been with my posts... I'm not important/popular enough to be a problem ^_^
Also, surely the best thing to do in Legless' case would have been to leave the post, but exempt it from a newsletter mention because it's an in-joke?
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I was thrilled to come second (so to speak) and surprised to be 'promoted' to first. It's a bit like when your team wins because the ref disallowed a goal against you in the final minute.
You're still pleased to have won, but can't help feeling the a draw might have been more just.
On the other hand....IN YOUR FACE LEGLESS - HA HA HA!!!
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figured it was because (and this isn’t meant as a dig) having a “local celebrity’s” pre-emptive parody of his critics in the number 1 spot was just a bit too ironic.
That said, if people voted for it etc.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:37, closed)
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Is to be news-lettered. Winning the QOTW is nice, but the gold is making the newsletter. I've had lots of stories in the past coming in the top three but not making the newsletter at all. That's because a lot of them are just too long to fit in.
And, being fair, I've had stories that didn't make the top 3 getting newslettered anyway. Swings and roundabouts.
But fucking with the results on QOTW seems a bit shifty.
Cheers
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:42, closed)
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That's where I've been going wrong! I didn't realise I came here to achieve something.
I always figured that's what real life was for.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:57, closed)
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I got my cycling proficiency when I was 9!
And my 100m swimming badge.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 16:05, closed)
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but that's no excuse for showboating or just outright lies.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 16:12, closed)
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I was actually 9 and a half
*weeps and begs forgiveness*
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 16:36, closed)
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I got my 1500m swimming badge.
And I got my 10m swimming badge just days after I learned how to swim.
But then again, I didn't learn to swim until I was 10.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 20:28, closed)
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I removed it because it was just bickering about the QOTW and not a proper answer to the question. Which was - as you know - about famous people.
We've got off topic. This exist for you to put whatever rubbish you want into it.
The question of the week is for ON TOPIC stuff. About the question.
Now whenever I mod stuff people go "it's not fair you didn't mod X Y or Z" and that's because I didn't see X Y or Z. We mod the stuff we notice.
If we didn't mod the question of the week, then week after week self-referential crap would win. Or stuff that says "vote for me!"
We do this to make the best of readable and interesting to third parties, so new people join and the whole site doesn't die, which it would if we closed it to new comers.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:43, closed)
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a bit too seriously?
Cheers.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:49, closed)
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I'll accept that. But it would have been nice to have had a gaz at the time.
Cheers
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:50, closed)
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always the ignore button.
Ask someone how to use it.
Cheers
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 15:51, closed)
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if you used the ignore button, you'd totally miss out on ULTIMATE B3TA GOLD.
Cheers.
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( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 16:04, closed)
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you can spot the /talk people a mile away.
They're the ones who can't. Talk I mean. Or write.
Cheers
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( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 16:07, closed)
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WOOP WOOP WOOP SOMEONE'S GONE ON IGNORE WOOP WOOP WOOP
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 16:38, closed)
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Sound your fucking alarm at me now.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 18:43, closed)
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then all my qotw answers would come top and it'd be ULTIMATE B3TA GOLD every week.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 19:30, closed)
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This is the worst thing about /qotw
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I am. I really am.
But I'm off to bed now.
Cheers
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 16:15, closed)
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Your post being deleted, bumped my QOTW up to second place.
*dances the funky chicken*
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 16:50, closed)
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It shows my name on the QOTW list, but not on the actual page.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 17:15, closed)
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not deleted, mind - merely not shown in a fairly insignificant list. This has riled you so much that you feel the need to post a link back to it, and create a follow-up post about how life isn't fair, blah blah blah, mods are conspiring against your genius, blah blah blah. Only it's ok now, because the site's owner has given you an explanation you 'can accept' - which was very magnanimous, I thought.
All this, over a 'best of' list, on the internet. Not exactly a Nobel Prize, is it?
My two-year-old daughter throws more relevent and less-childish hissy fits than this - and her egocentrism can be easily explained by the fact she's, y'know, *two years old*. And a girl.
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"In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue." -- Sayre's Law
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 20:34, closed)
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Wasn't Sayre's Law that you should be informed about kiddie-fiddlers living next door?
That would be a payne....
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(But if you click the link you'll see that the page it comes from is actually the "best of" - it just doesn't show up when you look at the actual "best of" page) Confused? I am.
That's actually a bug. It seems that every post looks like it comes from the best of page. Here's a random example.
Dammit, and now I can't fix it for a bit so that people see what I mean.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 17:59, closed)
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Can you double check that everyone isn't conspiring against Legless because it seems the whole world might be conspiring against Legless.
( , Thu 4 Mar 2010, 18:55, closed)
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I would suggest that having got 70 replies to this post, you are now something of a celebrity.
That should mean you are now eligible for re-inclusion on the popular posts page for the original post.
Next week, you could post a third post on the new QOTW, asking for the first post that you complained about in the second post to be reincluded.
( , Tue 9 Mar 2010, 12:52, closed)
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