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Originally Posted by GGG
One, you counted unvote a in addition to votes. This increases the disparity between the high and low voters as each vote but the first each day requires an unvote.
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The first thing I notice is that the high voters are all high posters and low posters are low voters. This makes sense as if you post a lot your vote will shift with what's happening or your vote will be used to apply pressure.
In order of votes cast followed by posting order
1. GGG - 1
2. Star - 11
3. Oling - 2
4. Wood - 8
5. ECF- 5
6. Gp_Matt - 3
7. Delgar - 4
8. Mrkaj -15
9, Timbo -7
10. Formulate - 14
11. Squiggs -18
12. diss - 10
13Aeneas -19
14. Girly -6
15. Puxlut -9
16. Rathji -17
17. Hmmm -16
18. Drury -13
19. HG -12
A pattern of vote low, high post is consistent with trying to seem active but not leave a trail.
So HG (replacement skews his numbers), Drury, Puxlut, girly fit this pattern with both pux and girly being the most extreme.[/QUOTE]
No surprise the person pointed out as the top voting activity is the one who wants to put the light on the bottom 3. I expected this from you GGG. You didn't disappoint.
Unvoting is a telling statistic and I was not leaving it out. As pointed out by a few veteran players, unvoting is a scum tactic near the hammer to take votes off of their own players. This list isn't just purely about numbers, this is about names. Whose voting, who are they unvoting for, does the vote/unvote make sense with the voting history. Those who are voting/unvoting alot, can they actually explain for each one why they've done it or is it a smoke show? Starseed has voted for 7 different individuals as have yourself. Oiling_Roachman has voted for 6 different people. All of you have used your voting to accuse almost 1/3 of the players just two days in.
As for your "vote kow/high post" and not leaving a trail, while yes I am in that group, I think that involves researching the posts of the people in that group to decide whether that statement fits. For myself, I don't believe I fit into the not leaving a trail category. I'm not posting fluff and then coming in to vote. As well, my votes align with my posts. Both have been fully explained prior to casting. So it's not alot of questions. For the others,
perhaps this applies, but that's where the names of the vote/unvote become crucial. When you look through their posts, does who they voted for match up with what they've said in the game or are these votes just jumping on a bandwagon? If all they post is fluff and have come in and thrown in a vote with the crowd, that's concerning. If they've posted meaningfully and the vote cast is explained, then it's less concerning.
My focus would be more those sitting in the middle of the pack. Scum wants to blend in right? Middle of the pack voting, middle of the pack posting, everyone's going to glance over because now they will see the list and know whose top and bottom. Anyone between 8-12 on your list is in that sweet spot of being active, voting and sort of not drawing attention to themselves in either pattern. Those would be who I'd want to focus on because they've done an excellent job at being right where you need to be. Where have their votes been? Who have they voted/unvoted for? Does it line up with their posts and suspicions up to this point?
The list is a powerful too, as is your manipulation of it. This needs to be used in investigating far more than just looking at the top and bottom and going "Well there you have the extreme's, go get them".
I do have to ask though, why didn't you point out Rathji or Hmmhmmcamo make your bottom list? You named me, Puxlut, GirlySports and HG15, but your bottom 3 are actually HG, Drury and hmmhmmcamo? Rathji is 4th from the bottom, Puxlut is 5th, GirlySports is 6th. If you are going to analyze data, you can't just take out your scum buddies. Not when everyone can actually see what the bottom three are by your own data. Puxlut and GirlySports each casted 6 votes/unvotes, Rathji and hmmhmmcamo 4.