toogoodtomiss
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Dec 24, 2024 1:25 PM
toogoodtomiss
8097
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SteveMND
Not terribly suspicious. If you see your team lagging behind, you're more likely to throw a few more snowballs than you might if you were already ahead. And with the ability to see the exact current scores, I'd like to think we end up with a "I Have No Strong Opinions/Futurama/Youtube video" scenario going on as well.
cuttysark
they need to do a recount by hand!
MoschopsUK
The system has negative feedback in it; if your side is losing, you're more likely to press the button. The larger value slows down, the lower value speeds up, and they swap over, and over, and over.
VCJunky
HonHomes
2.2M to 2.2M for me right now. And when it started the scores were within about 4-6k of each other, a difference which wouldn't show at this scale, I guess
SteveMND
You can click the icon between the two teams to show the exact numbers.
wseslar
They're stealing the votes. The imgur-ion voting machines are taking points from acorns and flipping them to pinecone. We have the data, and it will be presented in due time. The things they are doing to lie and cheat is shocking, you'll be so offended. We must take down the verminous squirrels that are stealing our acorns!
kitskinner19538
Is Trump in your gang?
Illinifan88
All of this seems artificial. There are tons of posts on FP that only have a single comment. And a lot of it is crap.
SarcasticComment
they are really weighing the algorithm toward this event. all about telling advertisers what good little engaged monkeys we are with artificial numbers
Tarmaccian
So apart from a slightly-lower comment rate, it's business as usual, eh?
Areliae
Because snowballing also upvotes the post. Lots of things are getting to the FP without the normal levels of engagement.
OnceBotheredTwiceShy
actually - and honestly it won't stay this way for long ...
toogoodtomiss
Arrrgh! I thought for sure the Pineys would prevail. I threw my thumb out hurling snowballs!
giganticroboticpenguin
I have a feeling that they delay each sides vote totals alternately, so one team thinks they are behind and start voting more.
toogoodtomiss
So it's all a social economic experiment?
giganticroboticpenguin
If you mean a year end ad revenue generation plan, I think there is a good chance.
bobbobbybobbington
chances are pretty high, we are talking numbers where averages start being average, two large samples over the same normal distribution will give similar expectation values.
OverSpiced
Nope, it's 50/50. Either it is, or it isn't.
alt86er
RecurringNightmare
pretty sure users are only assigned a team when they log in during the event and the random team assignment pushes a few extra users to the trailing team all the time, so the team in the lead always has a slight handycap...thats how you assure a race stays close for a long time, make the leader be at a disadvantage at all times...
bobbobbybobbington
sounds like more effort to me xD
i expect more like "if {userID = odd} then {acorns} else {pinecones}"
TheSkuf
That was my guess as well
toogoodtomiss
I was hoping a statistical expert would weigh in.. thanks!
ButtersTheCat
If you click on the totals up there, it'll show you the exact count. It's not as close as it appears.
TheMondale9000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_total_probability it even has a cool name
bobbobbybobbington
not a full expert, but i've dabbled :3
NinjaCongo
Statistics dabbler sounds sexy!
bobbobbybobbington
Want me to skew your data? 👀
Newitt
4.2 million engagements here in two days? Those are numbers that sound like Imgur circa 2016.
Scar1203
Yeah but you can click five times per post this year so that doesn't really bode well...
johnxbear
So really it's probably closer to 240,000 give or take depending on how many people click multiple times
lucivjov
Those are rookie numbers
RhymingEverything
Right, I have thrown hundreds of snowballs, maybe over 1000
Scar1203
Yeah, I figure I'm somewhere between 500-1000. If 250 is average there are around 20,000 users that have engaged with the mechanic so far.
baals
Less that 3k views per front page post per avg