Board 8 > A poll without an option...

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Luster, keep doing what you're doing and don't let anybody get you down for doing it. I appreciate the poll updates and data tracking, even for polls I don't personally care about.

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don't let anybody get you down for doing it

It seems like only Leon is trying to do that to me.


As for that blank poll option, it appears to have classic L-Block trends. The blank poll option is bleeding percentage like crazy and the other options are eating it up. The blank poll option maxed out its lead at 699 at 3:26 AM. Since then, "1-2 hours" has been trying to pull a comeback here, but it hasn't even cut more than 80 votes in the past hour.

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This poll has just gotten crazy now. After "1-2 hours" got the lead down to 600 at 5:11 AM, the blank poll option refused to allow "1-2 hours" to break through the 600 vote barrier for about 2 hours until the barrier was broken at 7:32 AM. After that, "1-2 hours" had difficulty breaking through the 550 vote barrier until 8:22 AM. Then there was more stalling where the 500 vote barrier couldn't be broken until 9:13 AM. Since 9:13 AM, "1-2 hours" has been going on comeback tear now with monster 30 vote cuts. The lead stands at 350 right now.

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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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That first poll option was seriously copy-pasted from another poll?

It looks more like he just took that poll, tweaked it slightly, and forgot to change the first poll option.

Either way, holy crap this was a lazy poll.

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I approve of Luster's data tracking for "pointless" polls.

Can't believe the blank one is losing.

From: LeonhartFour | #001
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Yep.

Voted

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damnit, Luster come back and update

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What kind of lamers WOULDN'T vote for the blank option?

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This is crazy that it's not winning anymore, blank'll make a comeback!! It's gotta!

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damnit, Luster come back and update

I'm back again.

Poll updates for yesterday's poll:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdHQ2XzRxb1lmcG5Ua1ppR3BNTW8yNEE

The blank poll option reached a maximum lead of 699 at 3:26 AM. Over the next 2 hours, "1-2 hours" could only get that lead down to 600. Once the lead was down to 600 at 5:11 AM, the blank poll option refused to allow "1-2 hours" to break through the 600 vote barrier for about 2 hours until the barrier was broken at 7:32 AM. After that, "1-2 hours" had difficulty breaking through the 550 vote barrier until 8:22 AM. Then there was more stalling where the 500 vote barrier couldn't be broken until 9:13 AM. Since 9:13 AM, "1-2 hours" has been going on comeback tear. The blank poll option had a 3 vote lead at 12:01 PM. If this had been a 12 hour night poll, the blank poll option would have been saved by the poll closing time.

Right when "1-2 hours" was about the take the lead, the blank poll option attempted to put up some sort of resistance against this. But the blank poll option lost the lead at 12:16 AM and continued stalling for about another 50 minutes until the lead finally went above 100 at 1:11 PM. After the lead reached 144 at 1:41 PM, the blank poll option attempted another comeback and got the lead down to 30 at 3:42 PM. For the next 1 1/2 hours, "1-2 hours" started stalling in order to stay in the lead, but the blank poll option finally took the lead back at 5:12 PM and maintained the lead for just one update. That was the last time the blank poll option had a lead.

At 6:58 PM, the first poll option was changed "Less than an hour" to correct a mistake in that option. The original option used to be "Less than an hour; I love quick games", which didn't make sense for the poll question. When the poll option was fixed, it had an effect on the trends in the poll. The trends didn't change right away when the poll option was changed. There was a slight delay in when the trends started to change, but they finally changed at 7:08 PM. The trends were affected in the following ways:

1. "Less than an hour" started doing better in the poll. It had 17.28% when the poll option was changed and averaged 21.34% over the last 5 hours of the poll. So the option change made it perform about 4% better.

2. The blank poll option was hurt by the change. It had 24.19% during the 6:00-7:00 PM hour. Overall, it had 26.46% when the change happened and then averaged 19.39% over the last 5 hours. This allowed "1-2 hours" to lay the smackdown on the blank poll option for the last 5 hours. At 7:03 PM, "1-2 hours" had a lead of just 100 and finished with a lead of 791. The blank poll option only won 3 updates after 7:13 PM, so it was putting up absolutely no resistance at all in the last 5 hours

3. The other 4 options did slightly better after the change, but it's barely noticeable at all. "1-2 hours " averaged about 1% better during the last 5 hours of the poll and "3-4 hours" averaged about 0.50% better.

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Trend charts:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdHQ2XzRxb1lmcG5Ua1ppR3BNTW8yNEE&gid=1

Blank poll option had the board vote and power hour, while the other 5 options all suffered a bad board vote and power hour because of the blank poll option. The strong board vote carried over to the early part of the night vote, but it soon had a bad night vote near the very end. The blank poll option died in the morning vote when "1-2 hours" was pulling a comeback. The morning vote would be the strongest time period of "1-2 hours". The day vote would be better for the blank poll option when it was stalling "1-2 hours" and even attempting a comeback. The last 5 hours were terrible for the blank poll option because of the change made to the first poll option.

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I blame the format. Blank poll option definitely wins 1-on-1.

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More people need to see my last 2 messages.

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