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I urge everyone to vote WUWT, tell your friends, co-workers, family, distant relatives, distant relatives’ friends etc etc to vote! I would rather see RC win if i had to choose between that vile, non-sensical pharyngula blog and RC.
A win would surely boost viewer hits for WUWT and consequently allow the spread of solid science.
Counterattack begins!
Pharyngula is gaining serious ground, seemingly a well coordinated attack which started this morning. Latest stats indicate a good sized burst earlier in the morning that could close the gap in 0.92 days, however it has recently fallen off to a gap close in 2.6 days (too late). If they can recruit more and hold the gains, it’s a good possibility WUWT will not win. Remember to vote every day!!!
Would, except the site won’t load.
Pharyngula has only gained about 3%. I don’t think they have a chance.
I hate to dash anyone’s fantasies but it is so incredibly easy to rig these online beauty contests that I don’t know why you would want to waist your time. Give me a college computer lab and a decent batch scripting program such as WinBatch and I can control the outcome of any election. In the end the only thing you are voting on is who controls the most number of computers.
Right now the Weblog Awards website is incredibly slow. Do you seriously believe that these are live humans voting?
Mike
Votes are appearing at a significant rate (about 1 every 10 seconds) and the voting site is slow to respond.
As of 16:12:00 GMT on 12th the tallies are:
Pharyngula: 7493
WUWT: 9881
Total: 26,798
Looks like Pharyngula suddenly has a whole host of new fans or there is some tactical voting going on (I wont speculate on other reasons).
Wasn’t there a similar flurry of activity last year at the end of the voting?
I’ve done my bit and now have to wait 24 hours before I can contribute again.
As of 0925 MST, the weblog award site did not respond. Overload?
I quote directly from pharyngula:
“So go ahead and punch a button if you feel like it. But I will remind you: no cheating of any kind. The people who run this award have some weird rules, but they aren’t dummies, and they do scrutinize sources and voting patterns very carefully, and will throw out votes that have a hint of illegitimacy. The only thing more embarrassing than winning this contest might be losing it because a large number of votes for me were discarded.”
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Wow, that’s just basically begging to do the opposite. ( a Hint hint, nudge nudge),,,
I smell a rat. After reading some posts and comments, I would absolutely not be surprised if one of pharyngula’s loyal readers have taken such action.
First time around I voted for ClimateAudit. But now that I see the site has no chance of winning (only 13% for such an excellent site is an outrage) I’ve switched to voting for WUWT.
Well sunspot 1010 is gone. Not the one I think that was not numbered 1010 a week or so ago. You had to be quick to catch it. It made maybe a 1/4 rotation around the Sun.
It’s the SUN not the SUV
These sceptic websites are popping up everywhere…a regular cottage industry has sprouted. Thanks to GLOBAL COOLING.
Here’s the latest I’ve found: GoreLied.com
Interesting video!
http://gorelied.blogspot.com/2009/01/video-skeptics-skeptic-sen-james-inhofe.html
Here’s my scientific projection:
“Watts Up With That” blows the doors off second place Pharywhatever.
Jeff Alberts:
At 9:07 the totals were:
WUWT: 9979
Pharyngula: 7605
15 minutes later:
WUWT: 10028
Pharyngula: 7664
The gap is closing fast. Keep clicking on the voting page to vote: click
You’ll get through if you keep trying.
I’ve noticed that the site – especially to the science blog page – is loading extremely slowly. I am suspicious…it shouldn’t load that slowly.
I have to ask a question here, since so many are talking about pharyngula. Please Anthony block this post if you wish, and I want to say I have absolutely against atheists and I firmly believe in evolution. But I went to pharyngula a couple times this week and looked at the comments and and it’s seems more like a hate group then a science blog?
Again talking about the middle east today, talking about a Rabbi?
“No moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians. Thank you for the carte blanche, God. How about raping? Is that OK? Baby butchering? Raping butchered babies? I’m sure it’s all good.”
This is science?
To be honest that website scares me, maybe because I’ve read mein kampf.
absolutely nothing against atheists, I missed the nothing sorry.
Chill, folks, I don’t think there is any dodgy voting going on just yet. At around 18:10 GMT (about 2 hrs after Terry S above), the counts are:
WUWT: 10,080
PZ: 7,713
That’s an extra 199 votes for WUWT and 220 for PZ over two hours. But this surge coincides with PZ putting a blog post up at Pharyngula (no starting flame wars now boys and girls…), so it is probably no great surprise. Even if this was maintained, which it probably won’t be, it would take 4-5 days for PZ to catch up.
No need to panic, just keep voting…
Well there’s only 10 votes difference increase between the two. At that rate it will take a looong time for them to catch up.
I just wandered over from Pharyngula. The reason for the admonition not to cheat is that Pharyngula regularly engages in “crashing” online polls by ridiculously swaying them in a more favorable direction. Since the polls are viewed as meaningless to begin with, “cheating” is par for the course.
In this case, I think the warning is probably sincere. If PZ wanted his readers to vote excessively, I doubt he’d have any qualms coming out and saying it.
I really don’t have anything against those posts, but they don’t belong on a science site.
I try to vote every day but have only managed two so far.
Don’t always see the vote buttons, just results.
Alex (08:57:11) :
Let’s not put our own interpretations into others words. Jennifer Marohasy has moved into third place as Best Online Community over the last couple of days.
Best Consevative blog is neck and neck between Ace of Spades and small dead animals.
Presumably no one bothered to recommend a best Liberal blog because being Liberal precludes them from being interested in the complexities of life and the universe?
Allow the cards to fall as they will.
Can’t post anything!!!
7:32 CET : The requested site did not respond to a connection request and the browser has stopped waiting for a reply.
There must be a great overload on the Awards site.
Jim B in Canada:
The rabbi claimed that “indiscriminate killing of civilians” was morally okay during the Gaza offensive. Are you saying that a blog post protesting this statement bothers you more than the statement itself?
Reply: Both of you cease and desist now. Middle East politics will not be a topic on this blog. No appeals to “but I was just questioning where he was coming from about blog descriptions” ~ charles the moderator.