Meme Madness: Revote!
by RPT on Apr 30, 2009 9:03 AM CDT
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PrintUPDATE, 12:13 a.m. Friday: Voting has ended. Party Starter moves on after a 35-15 victory. Despite the trials, tribulations, and infighting, democracy has prevailed, and the people have spoken. May God continue to bless Meme Madness.
UPDATE, 9:02 a.m.: Voting has been reopened. All votes registered yesterday will be counted in today's totals, so there is no need to revote. Voting will end at midnight tonight. At the start of voting on Thursday morning, No. 4 Party Starter led No. 8 Laffy Taffy, 20-9.
Due to the recent uncovering of voter impropriety during yesterday's Boulevard Regional semifinal, Rock M Nation is calling for a revote between No. 4 Party Starter and No. 8 Laffy Saffy.
To prevent more stuffing of the ballot box, there will be no poll available. Registered Rock M Nation members will be able to vote in the comments section below. To vote, please comment in this thread with the subject line as either "Party Starter" or "Laffy Saffy."
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Party Starter
vroom vroom
Can’t wait to see what he does with the new show.
The sleeper has awoken. . .awakened. . .he woke up.
Party Starter...
Hail the Glorious Leader of the Red-Headed League!!!
I'm the guy that keeps Mr. Death in his pocket.
Eh, Conan. Vrooom Vrooom Pahtay Stahtah
I’m retracting my Laffy Saffy vote from yesterday. Yeah, I’m a flip-flopper, so what? putting up fists
Party Starter!
"If you can't get up for this kind of game, Lord have mercy, you might not have a heartbeat"
-Jerome Bettis
by Jason Brynsvold on Apr 29, 2009 1:41 PM CDT reply actions
boooooooooooo
i’m calling for a recount of a recount when this is over! this is going to be the 2000 election all over again. i’m taking RMN to court!
by stlcardinalsfang on Apr 29, 2009 1:48 PM CDT reply actions
Guess who's on the Supreme Court of RMN?
Deal with it.
by RPT on Apr 29, 2009 1:57 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Looks like those 200 kids who stayed up all night voting for Laffy slept in today.
The sleeper has awoken. . .awakened. . .he woke up.
Yall want this party started, Right?
Yall wany this party started quickly.
The sleeper has awoken. . .awakened. . .he woke up.
I haven't seen that video in a long time...
I wonder why more places of employment don’t breaking into dance like that…
I'm the guy that keeps Mr. Death in his pocket.
It was a factory that not only made music. . .
but also Magic.
The sleeper has awoken. . .awakened. . .he woke up.
by SleepyFloyd7 on Apr 29, 2009 2:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Take out the 50 fraudulent votes.
And it’s still a tight one coming down the stretch.
Seeking a new signature...
And beyond that...
…how are we sure that Party Starter didn’t benefit from fraudulent voting? After all, 177 votes is an awful lot, more than twice what Grey Goose got.
Seeking a new signature...
Facts:
Along with leghumpingjihadkiller, I was watching the sheer spike in vote totals around the time between 11:31 p.m. and 12:25 a.m. last night, the time during which the offending visitor was on Rock M.
During those 54 minutes, we watched the vote swing massively in favor of Laffy Saffy, as votes were coming at a rate of about four votes per minute almost exclusively in his favor.
So the question is
What was everyone doing between 11:31pm and 12:25am last night?
"Wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Bonzai
So we're supposed to simply ignore...
…that Party Starter received 59 more votes than any previous entrant, and 100 more votes than it received the first time around?
Seeking a new signature...
This is EXACTLY why...
… we’ve come back to a polling system that can be monitored. The fraudulent voting for Laffy Saffy isn’t an indictment of that meme, but an indictment of yesterday’s votes as a whole.
The results of yesterday have become null and void.
And what about the people who don't comment, but lurk?
As of right now, 29 votes have been cast. In the previous polls, there have been an average of around 100 votes.
Seeking a new signature...
29 votes in only 2.5 hours. Extrapolate that over the ~18 hours these usually run.
Lurkers are more than welcome to sign up. There’s no minimum number of comments necessary to register a vote.
Anonymous voting had to be sacrificed for the sake of the revote. I implore you to come up with a better system/argument that’s not a function of your innate desire to push Laffy Saffy through.
There's no innate desire for anything.
My argument is simply that this is taking a result and throwing it out the window based on flimsy evidence at best. We don’t know who that guy voted for, and we especially don’t know who this other guy from Middletown, NY voted for.
It doesn’t seem fair to throw out results and instead institute a hurried, exclusive vote that represents maybe 50% of the participating community and perhaps 25% of the readers.
But if you want to pooh-pooh away my wholly valid points as “a function of [my] innate desire to push Laffy Saffy through,” be my guest. It’s your world, chief.
Seeking a new signature...
What does the winner of Meme Madness win?
by Zou want a piece? on Apr 30, 2009 9:57 AM CDT up reply actions
A McBoomofDoom?
Or whatever the name of that extra large (patties stacked on patties) McD’s sandwich of eminent-heart-failure is called…
LAFFY SAFFY
My voice has been heard, I feel joy and contentment for the first time today.
"Wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Bonzai
Party Starter
Somewhere No. 1 seed Bacon is crying…
Party Starter
though I’m not sure that ghtd doesn’t have a point. Sucks that some dork (or dorks) would want to rig a freaking Blog Meme election.
by Professor Chaos on Apr 29, 2009 2:28 PM CDT reply actions
Laffy Saffy
take it to the hole, big man.
"When he went for that ball and dived over the table, I knew what was next to come. I felt sorry for what Texas Tech had to face after that."
-- J. T. Tiller - 3/12/09
Vroom vroom
pahty stahtah!
"Those who fear disorder more than injustice inevitably produce more of both." -- Rev. William Coffin
A reminder, Laffy Saffy supporters.
Regardless of today’s outcome, we have fought the righteous fight. We have prevented a shadow government from holding private, exclusive elections, and allowed the Light of Freedom to shine in all portions of the Internet.
Our voices will be heard, and that is cause for celebration. We, the beacons of liberty, have prevailed.
Let freedom ring.
Seeking a new signature...
He actually had me convinced until this post
"When he went for that ball and dived over the table, I knew what was next to come. I felt sorry for what Texas Tech had to face after that."
-- J. T. Tiller - 3/12/09
size your images
if you are pulling it from a URL, how do you do that? I’m guilty of posting ‘too-large’ images….
by Zou want a piece? on Apr 30, 2009 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions
that sound you just heard was GHTD's head exploding
http://www.rockmnation.com/2009/4/24/850586/so-you-wanna-post-a-picture
Lessons from his post:
1. Don’t steal bandwidth (aka hotlinking) – host your image on another site like tinypic or photobucket
2. use width or height tags in the img src html code to size the image.
"When he went for that ball and dived over the table, I knew what was next to come. I felt sorry for what Texas Tech had to face after that."
-- J. T. Tiller - 3/12/09
purposely too
1. I’m hacking a internet connection, which is really shady right now, so I didn’t want to bother with the download/upload business
2. I was satisfied with the size (384×387) so I didn’t resize.
3. ghtd needs a hug…
I think
That’s a detailed explanation of a landslide….or an ascetic view of the human great toe…
I'm the guy that keeps Mr. Death in his pocket.
by Mizzou Grad on Apr 30, 2009 12:03 PM CDT up reply actions
laf... no just kidding, vroom vroom for me!
Much as I hate to link someone like this… it has to be sung.
ugh, this sucks
laffy saffy will forever live in the heart of me. LAFFY SAFFY MEME MADNESS CHAMP 2010!!!!
LET’S GO GREY GOOSE!
by stlcardinalsfang on Apr 30, 2009 1:02 PM CDT reply actions
If I vote again today...
will I totally disrupt the process, causing this to Meme Madness to go into the ring, ala old school wrestling style? A best of three falls between ghtd36 and rptgwb?
Because if that is the next step, then I’m gonna revote right here and now!!!
"Wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Bonzai
Methinks ghtd will start a rival website, called "Rock Saffy Nation"
Chicago White Sox Examiner — Your what hurts?
Bonus points for using "Bizzaro" in a sentence
and actually making it work
"Wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Bonzai
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway - An Onymous
by ratherfantastic on Apr 30, 2009 3:28 PM CDT reply actions
I'm just using it once
to vote
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway - An Onymous
by ratherfantastic on Apr 30, 2009 3:41 PM CDT up reply actions
That's scary
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway - An Onymous
by ratherfantastic on Apr 30, 2009 6:10 PM CDT up reply actions
That's crazy!
"When he went for that ball and dived over the table, I knew what was next to come. I felt sorry for what Texas Tech had to face after that."
-- J. T. Tiller - 3/12/09
the friggen horse is DEAD. DEAD
like as in Eric Crouch’s NFL career. Would you silly laffy’s BTFO and let the party get started?
Steve
on the bright side, though...
…this has killed a couple extra days of the football offseason!!
Rock M Nation
Thrust nunchuk upward!
Laffy Saffy
Just because there’s no way party starter’s votes were all legitimate, either, and I voted for party starter the first time around.
This really is silly, even beyond meme meaninglessness, since party starter (the clear winner here) will get THRASHED in the next round.
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