BLADE Magazine Poll. . . .

Jerry Busse

Jerry Busse

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I just returned from out of town, late last night, and have been trying to catch up. I was made aware of the BLADE Mag poll dealio and spoke with Joe Kertzman about dumping the poll from their website. . . . he said that it will be removed very soon.

Sounds like there were many manufacturers who had multiple voters. From what I can ascertain, only a few Busse folks voted multiple times and those were not enough to make that big of a difference in the results, but nonetheless, the poll results are now invalid.

It would have been nice to have had it run honest and more bullet-proof in order to see a fair representation, but apparently it was nearly impossible to do with the way it was set up.


Jerry
 
Would be nice to have a poll that you couldn't vote multiple times with to see how it worked out. I am sure someone could figure out how to do it. I am also glad to hear what I knew would be shown, our own weren't the only ones who double dipped on the poll.

Poll, we don't need no stinking poll!
 
Jerry - see what you miss when you go out of town!

We put a few noses out of joint, rased some heckles, irked a few and kicked up some dust!!! And it was fun! You should be proud of us!! :D
 
Not to be a downer, but there's no such thing as a useful internet poll. A site I visit frequently (slashdot.org) posts polls quite often. The results are always accompanied by the following disclaimer:

This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Seriously. If internet polls were in any way secure, useful, or reliable, would we be standing around waiting in line every election day? The fact that BLADE mag had even the slightest notion that they could garner anything useful from an internet poll demonstrates just how technologically far behind the rest of the world they are.
 
BlueSkyJaunte said:
Seriously. If internet polls were in any way secure, useful, or reliable, would we be standing around waiting in line every election day? The fact that BLADE mag had even the slightest notion that they could garner anything useful from an internet poll demonstrates just how technologically far behind the rest of the world they are.
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You are 100% correct. They are just for fun, and mean absolutly nothing. I browse around on different forums of varying interests, from political to knives to entertainment, and everytime someone catches whiff of a poll being conducted somwhere that concerns their interests they tell everyone to go there and vote.
 
Jerry Busse said:
I just returned from out of town, late last night, and...

Jerry
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Hmmmmm Boss hog was trying to blame not having the Extravaganzaa last weekend on a few whiney hogs but I see now, the truth is revealed. :grumpy:
 
It is hardly the case that a popularity poll, internet or otherwise means anything. Everytime TIME runs a man of the year/decade/century Rick Flair always wins unless they specifically take steps to prevent it by preventing him from being entered into the polls by the wrestling fans. If you are going to actually gauge popularity anyway, then if one dude is willing to spend his time voting over and over then that in and of itself is a measure obviously of the strength of the fan base.

-Cliff
 
Cliff Stamp said:
Everytime TIME runs a man of the year/decade/century Rick Flair always wins unless they specifically take steps to prevent it by preventing him from being entered into the polls by the wrestling fans.
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I actually voted for Rick Flair in the BLADE Magazine poll. :p
 
Guyon said:
I actually voted for Rick Flair in the BLADE Magazine poll. :p
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Cliff Stamp IS Rick Flair!!!. . . There it is. . . the truth is out. . . deal with it!!! :D

Jerry
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Jerry Busse said:
Cliff Stamp IS Rick Flair!!!. . . There it is. . . the truth is out. . . deal with it!!! :D

Jerry
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WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
 
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