EGM, MTV game of the millennium poll

Gruffian · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2003

If they showed you who was winning then why would you need to watch the show?

Stern vs The DDR FCC · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Location: AZ

They could just show you until the last few days before it airs (we have almost two months).

Not to mention they will be covering a lot of other things.

And I'm not saying they are supposed to show them.

They shouldn't show them at all. But I do believe only 1 vote is getting counted. I could be wrong, but it's easy and funny to set up and watch all these hits from an IP get only 1 entry for all their effort.

Some of you can vote stuff, but the risk is not worth the effort. Like I said, pop culture primadonna. It would seem proper to trick the "geeks" into clicking 1/2 their winter away.
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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Stern vs The DDR FCC · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Location: AZ

Arrow11 · Trick Member Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Location: Phoenix, AZ

J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Ok, let's say MTV has fun with this. Let's say they don't count, and at the end of the poll, Halo wins by a landslide. Would they be laughing privately at the stupid people who voted multiple times? Would they say on TV "the freaks who play DDR voted multiple times, but we got the last laugh"? In either case, would it be so bad?
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Stern vs The DDR FCC · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Location: AZ

No, not at all! If you want to keep voting, and you are happy, more power to you!

A moment enjoyed is never a moment wasted.
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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Heh, ok, so me, being the geek that I am, went to other MTV sites where they have polls.

http://www.mtv.com/onair/roadrules/season11/
http://www.mtv.com/onair/trl/

The TRL website has a poll at the bottom "Who are you looking forward to seeing next week on Spankin' New Music Week?" Using the enter trick, I singlehandedly moved G-Unit from 7% to 12%. I know this poll has nothing to do with the video game poll, but it tells us a few things. MTV uses the same poll system across their site for all their polls. The TRL poll counts multiple votes from the same IP. It would be a small jump to say that the video game poll uses the same system, and also counts multiple votes from the same IP.
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Stern vs The DDR FCC · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Location: AZ

Cool. I am willing to make that small jump. Your research has convinced me to vote stuff to try and get DDR where it belongs as #1.

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Gruffian · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2003

either way im vote whoring, I post on ddrfreak, of course I want ddr to be the winner.

pyrex · Trick Member Joined: 17 Mar 2002

rofl, i just went out to the mall for a few hours and left the enter key taped down

so thats prolly god knows how many votes

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Daniel · Trick Member Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Location: Sonoma, CA

My personal intituition tells me that that MTV doesn't know how to set up a poll correctly. However if the DDR votes gets too high, they will probably alter their system and just let Halo win. I think the best thing to do is to just vote about 20 times and tell your friends to vote DDR.

CourtJester · Trick Member Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Location: NY

Or maybe we should remember that MTV sucks. I hope they don't make a mockery of something we all love. Perhaps not winning will be a blessing in disguise.

iceburg23 · Basic Member Joined: 24 Apr 2003

i did that hold enter trick once and i can't do it nemore... wtF?

Chaddlyr3 · Trick Member Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Location: New Orleans

Travis4 · Basic Member Joined: 19 Sep 2003

We all know tha MTV is driven by enterprise, so why should this show be any different. When i heard about the poll i was like all of you and i spent half of my evening voting for DDR. Still i'n my opinion, the winner has already been chosen and the poll is just for publicity. Still,......I HOPE WE WIN! :frust:
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YoshiFan · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jul 2002

[quote="[Team Pirate] Gruffian"]A few things to note. 1. MTV sucks and probably has already picked what will win, we just get to vote to get their site traffic. quote]

I wouldn't doubt it. Let me mention what happened a few years ago:

In early 1999, someone got the idea that it would be a funny joke to put the New Kids On The Block video "Hangin Tough" on Total Request Live. Word of the plan spread through e-mail and it was decided that on a certain day in March, everyone would go to MTV.com and vote for the video. Since that obviously wasn't one of the choices to vote for, their was an option to vote for any video where you wrote in the artist name and the video name. Back then, it did show you the results when you voted. On that day when everyone voted for the New Kids video, you could see that the "Other" category had 66% of the votes while the other videos like N Sync and Backstreet Boys had around 15% each.

Guess what happened? They didn't play Hangin Tough even though it was obviously got the most votes. People were furious and the next day, MTV decided to play the video just so their fans wouldn't think the polls were rigged. Within the next week, the poll results were no longer shown after you voted for a song.

I wouldn't be surprised if they decided who would be #1 by what company decided to give them the most money.

DJ SODO · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:20 pm Post subject:

to the guy who figured out the enter trick: you rule!

(enter X 847738598752) im turning off all my instant messengers, and since i have a popup blocker, i wont have to worry about a million web pages open or another window taking the focus after the enter command is applied to it when my legs have fallen off after i play ddr with my friends till 5AM (its a friday-friends-bonding thing

) so other ddr freaks, be smart, close everything first and get a popup blocker BEFORE taping enter overnight!

thanx for listinin,
Neniv

P.S. The only good thing bout Xbox is that its got ddr now so *uses mega ultra DDR Left-Right stomp energy move on Halo cyborg thing* take that!!!
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LeftDownUpRight · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject:

I tried the "enter" trick, but it nearly didn't work!

I tried about 20 times (got the little square around Submit and hit and held down enter) but of those 20, it only hit multiple times ONCE!

Maybe the website is recoding the poll or something so the cheat doesnt work...

Anyone else having this problem?

EDIT: I tried a few more tests after this, and it seems like the enter cheat only works when I don't select anything in the poll. Hm.

DJ SODO · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:44 pm Post subject:

theyre not recoding the poll, i just tried it, r u sure ur clicking the ddr bubble then holding enter? dont go down to submit or anything, just click the bubble, and hold enter, hope that helps

EDIT: wierd, its not working anymore, maybe i should clear cookies and history? oh well, i still have 4 more computers to do that on!

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