DOWNVOTER problem!

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 29 Aug 2004, 00:13

I have noticed on tibby challenge mostly every car a 5. I HATE THOSE DOWNVOTERS!!!!!

DrewBoi · Post by **DrewBoi** » 29 Aug 2004, 00:18

yea me too.. 2 minutes ago it was a 8 now it is a 5 also... why cant we see who voted????

^Sparco^ · Post by **^Sparco^** » 29 Aug 2004, 00:24

Yeah, there is an ancient thread about downvoting, called "Downvoting on competitions.............."

I entered just at 14:00 (12:00GMT) to vote, and nobody had voted yet so I was the first. I wait some minutes and then noticed the overall ratings of all the cars were between 6.5/8.5

Within time, overall ratings go down, now there are between 3.5/7.0

I think this means many things.... Users that frequent nfsunlimited enter at first moments and vote honestly. Downvoters come later...

I am voting very high in this competition. 70% of 8s and 7s, 20%of 9, 6 and 5, 10% of 10, 3 and 4. (estimations LOL)

VPNeverLoser · Post by **VPNeverLoser** » 29 Aug 2004, 01:25

i am always honest. I can vote a 10 and i can vote a 1 if it's really horrible. But i usually vote between 5 and 10.
BTW, my car is getting like the worst ranking ever! because people are honest. They will downvote so they can get a good score
I mean jesus christ!
take a look at my car: SCORE-5.71

Now take a look at this car and it nearly has a better score than i do

SCORE-5.47

hm...

Supra-man · Post by **Supra-man** » 29 Aug 2004, 02:09

yeah, there are a lot of downvoters, i thought my car was GREAT but i guess not, i got one person who said that black, red, and white dont go, what in the world is he thinking?

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 29 Aug 2004, 03:03

whoah. Flame is wrong. (the name of user "flame") He is a friend and doesn't really care about nfs just likes to vote and he do whatever. But he not the downvoter. I saw him vote all the way. He did do couple of 1s 3s 2s and 5s. but some above 5.

Hey some SiMpAn guy voted mine a 2, he might be the bad guy..

VPNeverLoser · Post by **VPNeverLoser** » 29 Aug 2004, 03:08

stereo whats wrong with my gold rims? U said they were bad and my hood too?

btw are you russian? i saw you posting a reply. and u said something like ploxo zdelal? well im Russian as well!

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 29 Aug 2004, 03:22

yeah i am russian. I just don't like some cars and well ur gold rims i don't really like that color and hood. I don't like that hood. But still good car.

drop_out · Post by **drop_out** » 29 Aug 2004, 14:43

sorry guys...i'm guilty of downvoting...im a first time contestant in this site...i even gave a contestant a 1 for a comment i cant handle...most of my votes are honest though...mostly of them 3s and 4s...

so...i think i should leave...im not worthy......

nice site...nice competitions...i'll miss it

Skyline_man · Post by **Skyline_man** » 29 Aug 2004, 14:59

drop_out, the only reason that u get these votes is that the picture of ur car sucks, something wrong with ur video card, i cant see ur car clearly so i gave u 5

VPNeverLoser · Post by **VPNeverLoser** » 30 Aug 2004, 19:09

was something wrong with my video card?

just asking cause i got a lot of low scores

samurilos · Post by **samurilos** » 30 Aug 2004, 19:42

I only give my honest opinion on cars, if i think they are lame, maybe sumones else digs em but everyone can't dig ur car, i have a lame video card too VP, so i get ur drift

^Sparco^ · Post by **^Sparco^** » 31 Aug 2004, 13:11

Here thay are the real downvoters... maybe users who vote as guests, or maybe friends of some users who downvote the other rivals.
Notice that the higher rated cars have the higher number of votes

KekumRulez · Post by **KekumRulez** » 31 Aug 2004, 14:04

Thats exactly what caught my eye yesterday, Dani. But: I dont care about guestvotes. They are not for nothing guests...

drop_out · Post by **drop_out** » 31 Aug 2004, 15:10

with so much thinking...i realized that i really can't leave this site...i love the cars,the competitions....everything.....

can i stay???

i hope i can make it up to you guys...
i'll never again consider personal grudges for comments while voting...
i realized theat comments are really for improvement, not to make you look bad.....

sorry again...

jobo9 · Post by **jobo9** » 31 Aug 2004, 15:14

Isn't it an idea to stop with guestvotes
That guests CAN vote 4 normal showroom cars but not 4 challenge cars?

^Sparco^ · Post by **^Sparco^** » 31 Aug 2004, 15:27

No, I havent suggested that. I only say that voting as a guest it is more easy to downvote/upvote.
IMO guests should be able to vote, but watch the results, 80%of people are voting 1, 2 and 3points!!

Post by **Bojan** » 06 Sep 2004, 10:35

There is one thing I need to clear up: the definition of downvoting.

Downvoting is when somebody votes all cars a very low score (below 3) for the purpose of improving their car's standings.
The same goes for upvoting.
And both practices are forbidden and will be punished by having user's car removed from the competition.

I advise you all to stop sending me pms about the 1 ratings your car has received. Voting 1s is not forbidden.

Post by **Bojan** » 10 Sep 2004, 14:03

Another thing:

Down/Upvoting with multiple usernames has become so frequent that we won't even bother to warn you. If you're caught, all your usernames will be deactivated, votes deleted and ip banned.
Yes, that means you won't be able to register on this site anymore.

That counts for both showroom and sr challenge.

I never imagined it would come this far. We have a really large set of ips banned. Everybody get a life and stop up/downvoting.

Post by **TheStig** » 10 Sep 2004, 15:04

nothing more to say....but PLAY FAIR .... and KEEP it FUN

we all do this for fun and the honor of the win.. you don't get anything but some respect...

and how does respect feel if you cheated??

Mistral · Post by **Mistral** » 10 Sep 2004, 17:48

Why don't you limit to one vote per IP address? It doesn't work very well for dial-up connection, but it should work not bad for broadband connection which they have a static IP for some month.

Post by **Bojan** » 10 Sep 2004, 17:59

Because of some isps (aol for example) that use caching. As a result everyone who uses that isp has the same ip.

SunnyGTiR · Post by **SunnyGTiR** » 14 Sep 2004, 06:04

I think it would nice for the comps to be totally anonymous, no comments, rankings, in game names blacked out(after approval), till the end when all is revealed, it should be about the cars not people. its just an idea, prob alot of work though, but i think it would help.

VPNeverLoser · Post by **VPNeverLoser** » 14 Sep 2004, 20:49

i disagree

exonn · Post by **exonn** » 14 Sep 2004, 21:58

totaly agree because if you write that you dont like someones car he can downvote your car and you are pushed not to write any coments at all, or write not ewerything what you think, if coments shuld be anonimus it wuld slove this problem, and about rankings, i think its good idea not to show rankings at all before comp ends. this is what am thinking