Wednesday, October 29, 2008

final update

OK, this is my last post about this, I promise. Just wanted to give you the update.

Ryan and I have been doing some IMDB experiments and have come to the conclusion that IMDB doesn't count votes from users who have only voted for one (or not many more than one) film because they want to prevent vote stuffing (as I have been encouraging you to do in my last two posts.)

You see here where five votes moved the weighted average five tenths of a point:


Whereas before twenty votes only moved the weighted average two tenths of a point.

In conclusion -- if you are just sitting on your couch watching Pushing Daisies tonight and you want to help me out during the commercial breaks, delete your vote for Driftwood, vote for a hundred movies you've seen, and then go back and vote for Driftwood again.

I realize this is a much bigger favor than the first request, but I'm just putting it out there. Thanks to everyone who voted so far. I won't ask for anything else, not even for Christmas.

1 comment:

  1. Well, I was getting ready to work on my step outline (again, some more, still) and thought "I'm going to bop over to Michelle's blog and see what I can find there to distract myself." And BINGO! So, i just went and voted for 40 various film and television masterpieces and pieces of crap that I always thought were vastly over-rated (Muriel's Wedding, I'm glaring at you.) And then I gave the ten to the most deserving of ten's: your fine, fine masterpiece. So. Thanks for the distraction. Back to my worst story to date.

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