Mass Voting and the Law of 64

[clevenger]

Here's an interesting bit of information I've determined over the past couple weeks (although, seeing how I've only been a member for a month, I'm sure this is old news to many veterans). For a flash video to pass judgement, it must reach an average of 1.6 after 200 votes. Using simple mathematics, that comes up to 64 votes of 5 out of 200 votes. Assuming that a person with a voting power of 4 (such as myself, who has only been around for a month) would take up 4 out of the 200 votes, it would take only 16 people with a voting power of 4 or better deliberately voting 5 on a flash to pass judgement. With a voting power of 7, it would take only 10 people to pass judgement, and so on.

In conclusion, anybody with the right friends can make the worst flash imaginable and still pass judgement (barring whistling, of course).

[Starberry]

regardless of voting power, each vote is logged as 1 vote out of 200, not as 7 votes out of 200.

[PanzerKorpse]

Wow 4 posts and your not saying "Lol im liek new guyz so wahts up?!!?" You'll could go far here on NG.

[clevenger]

The fact that each vote only counts as 1 vote regardless of voting power helps. In that case, one would have to compare the average voting power of a Newgrounds member.

Matches average voting power: 64 people
Twice the average voting power: 32 people
Three times the average: 22 people
Four times the average: 16 people

If the average voting power is between 4 and 5, then that makes it much more difficult for people to cheat. Even Clock Crew or other clubs would have to be pretty well organized to achieve that goal.

[SgtBash-RF3000]

if sombody has a lot of high level friends it will get in. even if more high level people try to blam.
thats why I'm always increasing my voting power, to protect newgrounds.

[SquareHard]

i hate you! why wont you die! youre making my head hurt!

[LiveAndLetDive]

At 3/6/06 07:32 PM, n00gie wrote: Wow 4 posts and your not saying "Lol im liek new guyz so wahts up?!!?" You'll could go far here on NG.

I thought the same thing