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Vote Thread for Ack's Omake Corner

Discussion in 'General' started by Ack, Feb 18, 2015.

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    Ack

    Ack (Verified Ratbag) (Unverified Great Old One)

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    Thanks, as always, for voting.

    Voting points this round: 1259

    Announcement
    The new vote counting system is awesome. That is all.

    User Errors
    thyrfa - Another Way is not part of the voting list. I write chapters for that as I see fit. The 5 points you spent on that will go to the story that got the least points in the voting round, which happens to be Bait & Switch. It thanks you. :p

    Please correct these in future.

    On to the main event.

    Alea Iacta Est 646
    All Alone 380
    Bait & Switch 565
    Confrontation II 95
    Danny & Taylor 592
    Hostage Situation 914
    I, Panacea 400
    Junior Hero 766
    Meet the Heberts 155
    MirrorVerse 727
    NSW 548
    Nemesis 517
    One More Trigger 1059
    Really Bad End 900
    Recoil 119
    Security! 632
    Slippery Slope 994
    Trump Card 668
    War Games 747
    Wyvern 0 (1205)

    [If you want to know which of these stories is NSFW, check the first post of the thread..]

    It certainly was, even though it's falling back through the listings. Three stories beat it in vote points, but it still managed to crack 1200 for the first time.

    Just eyeballing it, next up is likely to be One More Trigger, then we have what looks like Slippery Slope after that, then probably Hostage Situation. Really Bad End will want a go on, but one of the other front runners might push it back a bit before it gets to the front.

    Note also that the vote counting script given to me by Throne3d was of huge assistance.

    Anyway, thanks again for voting, and I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoy writing them.


    For anyone who hasn't voted on this thread before, the voting rules go as follows:

    Vote format looks like this:

    Thank you.

    Voting is OPEN.
     
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  2. Spoit

    Spoit Versed in the lewd.

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    [X] MirrorVerse - 6
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 5
    [X] Recoil - 4
    [X] Trump Card - 3
    [X] One More Trigger - 2
    [X] Confrontation II - 1
     
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  3. SwiftRosenthal

    SwiftRosenthal Connoisseur.

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    [] Marky's Angels - 13
    [X] Wyvern - 6
    [X] Recoil - 5
    [X] I, Panacea - 4
    [X] Security! - 3
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 2
    [X] Trump Card - 1
    [] Hostage Situation
    [] One More Trigger
     
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  4. Morningfire

    Morningfire Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] All Alone - 3
    [X] Hostage Situation - 2
     
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  5. Feiron

    Feiron Warm and fuzzy

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    [X] Security! - 5
    [X] Hostage Situation - 4
    [X] Wyvern - 3
    [X] Recoil - 2
    [X] Confrontation II - 1
     
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  6. Richael

    Richael Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] Recoil - 6
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    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
    [X] Trump Card - 2
    [X] Junior Hero - 1
     
  7. PathtoReading

    PathtoReading Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] Danny & Taylor - 3
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    [X] NSW - 6
    [X] Recoil - 5
    [X] Trump Card - 4
     
  8. Fishyface

    Fishyface Not too sore, are you?

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    [X] Security! - 3
    [X] One More Trigger - 2
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 1
     
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  9. inky

    inky Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] Trump Card - 3
    [X] Hostage Situation - 2
    [X] Slippery Slope - 1
     
  10. tertius

    tertius drunken shitposter extraordinaire

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    [X] Confrontation II - 6
    [X] Wyvern - 5
    [X] Trump Card - 4
    [X] Recoil - 3
    [X] All Alone - 2
    [X] Nemesis - 1
     
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  11. WindCall12

    WindCall12 Well worn.

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    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 6
    [X] Recoil - 5
    [X] Trump Card - 4
    [X] I, Panacea - 3
    [X] Hostage Situation - 2
    [X] Danny & Taylor - 1
     
  12. Anaja

    Anaja I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    [X] MirrorVerse - 6
    [X] All Alone - 5
    [X] Slippery Slope - 4

    [X] One More Trigger - 3
    [X] Security! - 2
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 1

    Willing to trade any votes -3 or under for an equivalent vote for MirrorVerse. Just tag me, or quote this post.
     
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  13. Jim Starluck

    Jim Starluck CO, ICS Vanguard

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    Yeah, Wyvern isn't having a very good time of it lately. My new, experimental predictive model even shows its average votes-per-round slipping below Alea Iacta Est, which is a first. We'll see if it continues falling in popularity.

    Both my predictive models -- which I'm going to be calling Model A, the one I've been using all this time, and Model B, the new one -- agree on this. One More Trigger is going to win Vote 78 by a comfortable margin of 70-some votes, and Slippery Slope will likewise handily win Vote 79. Hostage Situation is indeed the on-paper winner in Vote 80, but the margin is only in the high 20s; enough of a shift in votes over the next couple rounds could change things one way or the other.

    Really Bad End is indeed getting high in the vote-count, but it's doing so very slowly; the most popular stories are earning 4-5 times as many votes each round, making it very difficult for it to stay ahead. And the vote total to win is liable to only keep climbing, so it's got an even greater uphill fight. Neither of my models predict it winning any time within the next 10 rounds, and probably not for a few past that. We most likely won't see another chapter for it until after New Year's.

    Alea Iacta Est has Round 81 nicely in hand, by a margin of about 50 votes. Not close enough for an upset unless things change dramatically, and I doubt such a popular story will falter that much. Even more secure in victory is Trump Card, liable to win Vote 82 in the 1200s and more than 130 votes ahead of the next highest story.

    Then things get interesting. For the first several votes, my two predictive models have been mostly in agreement. There are a few minor differences in vote margins, but overall they've been within 10 votes of each other. For Vote 83, however, Model A predicts War Games winning in the mid-1100s, about 30 votes ahead of Security!, which then wins Vote 84 about 30 votes ahead of I, Panacea, which is secure in Vote 85 by more than 150 votes.

    Model B has the exact same sequence of winners, but the margins are substantially different. It puts War Games about 15 votes further ahead and Security! 20-some votes behind, widening the margin to 70 votes and giving War Games an almost certain win. Security! is still only 30-some votes ahead of I, Panacea, which again comes in to win handily, though not by as big of a margin.

    Votes 86 and 87 are even further apart. Both of them give Vote 86 to recent winner Recoil, but Model A has it just barely staying ahead of Wyvern, while Model B has it winning by 60+ votes. Round 87 also goes to Wyvern in both, but Model A gives it a hefty margin of 180+, while Model B puts it a mere 12 votes ahead of its rivals.

    It'll be quite interesting to see where things go by the time we get there.

    Rounds to win after Vote 87 vary somewhat between the two models:

    Alea Iacta Est: 4
    All Alone: 4-5
    Bait & Switch: 21-24
    Confrontation II: 8-9
    Danny & Taylor: 8-12
    Hostage Situation: 18-19
    I, Panacea: 10
    Junior Hero: 10-13
    Meet the Heberts: 7-8
    MirrorVerse: 1
    NSW: 2-4
    Nemesis: 16-17
    One More Trigger: 11
    Really Bad End: 2-3
    Recoil: 10
    Security!: 13
    Slippery Slope: 15-17
    Trump Card: 6-7
    War Games: 14-15
    Wyvern: 9-10

    Again, those are counting from Vote 87 onwards.

    Accuracy this round was different for each model.

    Model A had an overall accuracy of 97.92%, with an average vote difference of 8.2. Most accurate in both proportion and absolute votes was Nemesis, which came in exactly on-target. Least accurate proportionally was Confrontation II, at only 87.96% of predicted votes, while least accurate in raw votes was poor Wyvern, slogging along 36 votes behind prediction.

    Model B on the other hand had an overall accuracy of 98.46% and an average vote difference of 7.1; a noted improvement. Most accurate by its reckoning was Bait & Switch, which came in precisely on-target. Lease accurate proportionally was Recoil at only 90.15% of expected votes; least accurate in vote count was Wyvern again, but this time by only 28 votes.


    At first glance it seems like Model B may be more accurate, but I'm going to let things play out for a while longer. I want to see if we can get a round where the two models predict different winners, and see how that turns out.



    My vote:
    [X] Meet the Heberts - 6
    [X] NSW - 5
    [X] War Games - 4
    [X] One More Trigger - 3
    [X] Security! - 2
    [X] Recoil - 1
     
  14. Atropa

    Atropa Getting sticky.

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    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 5
    [X] MirrorVerse - 4
    [X] Meet the Heberts - 3
    [X] I, Panacea - 2
     
  15. Angush

    Angush I have no idea what I'm doing

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    [X] All Alone - 6 (swapped for MirrorVerse with Anaja)
    [X] MirrorVerse - 5 (swapped for All Alone with Snake/Eater)
    [X] Slippery Slope - 4 (swapped for Confrontation II with Edale)
    [X] War Games - 3 (swapped for Confrontation II with Subsider34)
    [X] Confrontation II - 2
    [X] Recoil - 1
     
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  16. Chase92

    Chase92 Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] Hostage Situation - 3
    [X] Confrontation II - 2
    [X] Trump Card - 1
     
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  17. Asheram

    Asheram Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] War Games - 2
    [X] Hostage Situation - 1
     
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  18. GW_Yoda

    GW_Yoda Professional Lurker

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    [X] Trump Card - 3
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 2
    [X] One More Trigger - 1
     
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  19. Navrin

    Navrin Experienced.

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    [X] Nemesis - 3
    [X] Hostage Situation - 2
    [X] Trump Card - 1
     
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  20. Ack

    Ack (Verified Ratbag) (Unverified Great Old One)

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    I find it amusing that for your Predictive model B, Bait & Switch came in dead on target only because I gave it 5 points that thyrfa posted up for Another Way. :p
     
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  21. Rainov

    Rainov The Dark Sun, Alight With Passion

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    [X] Security! - 3
    [X] I, Panacea - 2
    [X] Slippery Slope - 1
     
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  22. GladiusLucix

    GladiusLucix Versed in the lewd.

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    [X] Wyvern - 3
    [X] Danny & Taylor - 2
    [X] Confrontation II - 1
     
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  23. The MMR

    The MMR Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] Wyvern - 1
     
  24. Suzushiro Aoi

    Suzushiro Aoi The Blood Queen

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    [X] NSW - 1
     
  25. nobodez

    nobodez Bringer of Context

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    [X] All Alone - 3
    [X] Trump Card - 2
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 1
    [] Confrontation II - 0
    [] Recoil - 0
     
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  26. ioigtam

    ioigtam Getting sticky.

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    [X] Recoil - 3
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    EJH Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] Wyvern - 1
     
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    edale Versed in the lewd.

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    [X] Security! - 3
    [X] Hostage Situation - 2
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 1

    Confrontation II/Slippery Slope -> Angush
     
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    Snake/Eater Myth Maker of the North

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    [X] MirrorVerse - 6
    [X] All Alone - 5
    [X] War Games - 4
    [X] Really Bad End - 3

    The Ack Stock exchange and Vote Trading Post, sponsoring MirrorVerse. Just tag me, or quote this post.
     
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  30. Chojomeka

    Chojomeka Sexy and I know it

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    [X] Junior Hero - 6
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    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
    [X] Trump Card - 2
    [X] One More Trigger - 1
     
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