Thursday, March 19, 2009

Scenic Boys need your vote - Thursday, 3rd week of voting

During the night, amtr received 22, i.e., three times as many votes as they did during the day, while st3 received 18 more and grew to 31% share. Yesterday was the worst voting day ever for the boys, as they only received 1 vote and their share dropped to 16%. They are 90 votes behind the preceding blog (2guys).







While one might agree that the votes for st3 are spread more or less evenly throughout the voting period, amtr began receiving significant numbers of votes as of last Sunday, that is, in the last week of voting. I have no idea where they are taking these votes from but certainly they must have helped them along. An option that the votes were withheld for verification seems unlikely. Also st3 have been receiving higher numbers of votes since Sunday, as I said, as if they were making sure they will stay ahead of amtr and keep their leading position. If it's not cheating, it certainly is assisted voting. I guess this counts as a normal practice, though, convincing people to vote for you so that you win.. As long as all those votes were not cast by a small group of cheaters, I think they will remain valid and the results of public voting will not change.

Update 12:20 p.m. CET/7:20 a.m. EST:
New votes are coming in: st3 - 7 votes, amtr - 2 votes.

Update 11:00 p.m. CET/6 p.m. EST:
Nothing new. So far, the total of 19 votes for st3, 16 for amtr, and a few votes for the other blogs.

Update 30 minutes later:
Another 14 votes came in for st3 - they now have 33 new votes vr. amtr's 18.

Another 30 minutes later:
I am waiting for the washing mashine to finish the cycle - I ran out of clean shirts - that's why I'm still here. 6 more votes for st3, i.e. 20 during the last hour... Vs. 3 for amtr.

Update 2 a.m. CET/9 p.m. EST:
Watching TV. Just turned the heating off for the night. Votes are zooming in for guess who. Yes, it's st3. By now, they have 71 new votes - over 50 of those have been recorded in the last three hours - and amtr only 32. In fact, new votes are being recorded for both blogs - not for the others - but more are coming in for st3. They've already received their highest daily number of votes ever and the night has barely begun. How many more will there be? Their share has gone up to 33% (633 votes), while the boys lost another 1% and currently have 15% (297 votes, 97 votes behind 2guys).

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