I figured this was due to a bit of ego factored in only because my blog piece was above the Deaf Anthology's piece in DR Extra and seeing my number go up while Deaf Anthology's stayed behind. Then I started to see a pattern. I asked a few of my friends to vote for my blog piece and I let them know it was an experiment. It didn't take long until I was 1 or 2 votes higher than Anthology's. And it wasn't long also until the number of votes for Anthology to up 1 or 2 votes higher than mine. In no way did I touch or instruct my friends to vote for Deaf Anthology in case you're wondering.
I realized the inherent weakness when it comes to online voting. One person can easily go to Best Buy and go online using their laptop computer displays, or to a phone store with their display notebook laptops with an internet connection, a library computer room, at work, or at a college campus computer room and vote multiple times. Though I didn't go to those places except for my work. And if one has a smart phone with an internet connection, that same person can vote for the same blog article again. Not only that if you have a family then there are probably more laptops to access, including daughters' and/or sons' smart phones if they have one (mine do not).
After November 3rd (first picture at top) I let it alone for a week and saw no changes in votes. On Nov 10th with 16 vs 19 votes I decided to add three more votes (see middle picture) making it 19 vs 18 votes. It wasn't long until Athology's vote went up by three, too, with a vote of 19 vs 20 that same day. The next day Anthology's went up another two votes with 19 vs 22 votes just for good measure I suppose.
Now, I'm letting people and Tayler Mayer know this because voting can be done multiple times by one person on his/her own blog in DR Extra. I've done this myself along with the help of my friends' help. No big secret or shame in telling you people this. My intention was not to embarrass Tayler Mayer about this. Granted, DR's online voting is not perfect and I realize that. I'm sure Tayler Mayer is already very aware of this shortcoming and realize the possibility of deceitful voting practices in DeafRead Extra.
And, yeah, this is a slow news day for me.
But happy Veterans Day! Thank you for all you have done.
Update: As soon as I blogged this I saw that Deaf Anthology's number of votes jumped up to 23. Congratulations!
UPDATE II: Poor guy, he's deflecting using a fantasy rebuttal. Tsk.
9 comments:
bizarre... guess some people have nothing else going on in their lives. (speaking of the other blogger, of course.)
anonymous the first
uh i think he beaten ya from the voting by the people. Deaf Anthology pwned ya! quit your whine about the simple childish voting stuff.
I find the deaf.read extra pages a bit confusing to be honest. I thought originally it was for non-deaf specific posts or, posts that simply cut and pasted news items from elsewhere or notices for local specific areas.
The first option is OK, the second option is where DR is making a mess of it all frankly. Mainly because most if not ALL of us post at some time items we have read elsewhere and feel deaf relevant. The difference between an 'Link' and straight cut and paste.
As a mere Brit I also found some items moved to DR extra from outside the USA, only to then read the same items reproduced on Deaf Read main by... AMERICAN bloggers.
Favouritism ? surely not :)
The problem is if you move 'news' cut and paste related items off DR main to DR extra then DR main is going to look very unused..... Anyway I cannot really rad DR extra as my computer just shows script.
That's the beauty of running a website, you can always improve the design and function based on what you've learned.
Anytime you have humans involved in weeding out the proper links will always be a risk for bias. But they are doing a good job despite what many have said.
anony the first, well, it may be bizarre but I find the whole voting thing kind of funny. I don't really care for the voting as I said before but it was rather curious to see the back and forth voting results. As if someone else was keeping an eye on the results that was already 7 or 8 pages deep in DR Extra.
BTW, as I've said before in my blog I don't care about the votes. I just know that it's easy to increase the number of votes multiple times from just one person doing it. That was the crux of my argument.
I deleted a series of anonymous comments.
One for not following the rules. How about be a little brave next time and show yourself?
The other comment was a suspicious one claiming to be that person with the signed name but doesn't sound like it was really that person who had lots to offer here. It's easy to impersonate people in anonymous comments.
Mike # 9:21 a.m., I got your point. what I think is strange is that someone would go to so much trouble to monitor your blog that closely and then go to even more trouble to make sure that his blog outvoted yours. I mean, seriously? priorities, anyone?
I don't care about the votes either. I guess the voting issue is something Tayler could look into if he cared to. just FYI, I never read Deaf Anthology - prefer yours by far. and don't look at Deaf Extra either.
you other anonymous people, behave. You give us other rule-abiding anonymice a bad name. :P
Anonymous the First
anony the first,
Last I checked right before Thanksgiving was that his was up to 30 votes and mine was still at 19. I wonder how many times he went to Best Buy and vote for his own blog? Biggest farce I've seen in a long while. People vote on a fictional piece with a video clip of Halloween with no captions? LOL
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