Board 8 > What is the proper way to apologize for not voting for people in UOTY?

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 8:40:00 AM
#1:


I feel like this is maybe the most important part of the game, as a proper apology can essentially come across as a positive vote for everyone. I need to start incorporating this, even though I geniunely dislike 99.9% of the people I don't vote for or minus. Help me out here.

Blanket statement saying stuff like there aren't enough pluses to go around or that you love everyone? Fun gimmicks like saying you used a coin flip to decide? Specific compliments and apologies to each of the unlucky users?

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SuperAngelo128
02/10/12 8:42:00 AM
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"Sorry, don't know you" usually works.

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SHINE GET 64
02/10/12 8:42:00 AM
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I prefer sticking it to people and letting them know I minused them

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PrivateBiscuit1
02/10/12 8:42:00 AM
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Well first you need to grow a vag.

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 8:42:00 AM
#5:


SuperAngelo128 posted...
"Sorry, don't know you" usually works.

What if you do know them and they vote a lot?

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neonreaper
02/10/12 8:43:00 AM
#6:


biggest mistake I see people make is to anti-vote a popular user "you don't need the votes". aye carumba

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 8:44:00 AM
#7:


neonreaper posted...
biggest mistake I see people make is to anti-vote a popular user "you don't need the votes". aye carumba

Wow, good call. I'll have to write that down so I never make that mistake.

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SuperAngelo128
02/10/12 8:45:00 AM
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"Sorry I see you around but don't really know you that well"

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 8:47:00 AM
#9:


But what if you DO know them well....there are so many intricacies to this question...

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WalrusJump
02/10/12 8:48:00 AM
#10:


if there's actually no one i dislike i say "nothing personal"

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Rad Link 5
02/10/12 8:48:00 AM
#11:


From: SAWURFACEANDWOW | #001
Blanket statement saying stuff like there aren't enough pluses to go around


This is good. It makes everyone involved feel like you like them.

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 8:49:00 AM
#12:


Rad Link 5 posted...
From: SAWURFACEANDWOW | #001
Blanket statement saying stuff like there aren't enough pluses to go around
This is good. It makes everyone involved feel like you like them.


But it could also come off as soulless and fake...I guess it depends on how you phrase it and the users involved.

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th3l3fty
02/10/12 8:49:00 AM
#13:


http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61907828/690033788

look at this mastery

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 8:51:00 AM
#14:


th3l3fty posted...
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61907828/690033788

look at this mastery


Wow...a brilliant combo apology. Take the "I don't really know you/see you around" method and throw it with the I love everyone route...I love it! Although I wouldn't recommend it for novice voters, it is a little too advanced.

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foolm0ron
02/10/12 8:52:00 AM
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I feel like posting your apologies as you vote seems kind of contrived to everyone you're not apologizing to. I always just post my vote, and then personally contact the people I minused via AIM or whatever and just beg for forgiveness. Maybe I'll buy them a game or two on Steam. This way you can maintain playing the anti-game, because people on the board think you don't care, but you the people you minused know that you care about them.

Also you shouldn't neglect people just because you didn't minus them. If you +0 or even just +1 an important person, they might get mad just as easily as a -3.

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demonfang178
02/10/12 8:55:00 AM
#16:


We had a UOTY contest? Had no idea. Guys should have advertised more. Your own fault really.




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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 8:55:00 AM
#17:


foolm0ron posted...
I feel like posting your apologies as you vote seems kind of contrived to everyone you're not apologizing to. I always just post my vote, and then personally contact the people I minused via AIM or whatever and just beg for forgiveness. Maybe I'll buy them a game or two on Steam. This way you can maintain playing the anti-game, because people on the board think you don't care, but you the people you minused know that you care about them.

Also you shouldn't neglect people just because you didn't minus them. If you +0 or even just +1 an important person, they might get mad just as easily as a -3.


..........my god...............

This is the most brilliant piece of The Game Theory literature that I have ever read

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neonreaper
02/10/12 8:55:00 AM
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Crim's move is actually also terrible - you don't have to apologize to Xbyte. save it for when a division is stacked with people who all vote "I'd plustwo you in almost any other division". why is "plustwo" failing spellcheck? UOTY has been around for long enough

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 8:57:00 AM
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neonreaper posted...
Crim's move is actually also terrible - you don't have to apologize to Xbyte. save it for when a division is stacked with people who all vote "I'd plustwo you in almost any other division". why is "plustwo" failing spellcheck? UOTY has been around for long enough

You never know if your minus and lack of apology to Xbyte could drive him over the edge and cause him to vote against you in not just UOTY, but every other user contest forever.


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Rad Link 5
02/10/12 9:01:00 AM
#20:


From: SAWURFACEANDWOW | #012
But it could also come off as soulless and fake...I guess it depends on how you phrase it and the users involved.


A brilliant man once told me that flattery makes everyone blind.

Their head will be so far up their own ass, they won't be able to see you filling out their ballot with a +3 sess.

From: th3l3fty | #013
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61907828/690033788

look at this mastery


This is especially great when you consider that her -2 just made an all time great topic a few days ago.

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saveus_Maria
02/10/12 9:06:00 AM
#21:


put on a fake 'mean' or 'elite' persona so that you say bad stuff about everyone in the division equally, but none of them will be offended because they know you're just 'playing around'

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SmartMuffin
02/10/12 9:06:00 AM
#22:


From: saveus_Maria | #021
put on a fake 'mean' or 'elite' persona so that you say bad stuff about everyone in the division equally, but none of them will be offended because they know you're just 'playing around'


this is sess you're talking about here. he would never do something like that!!

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 9:07:00 AM
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That takes months of dedication to establish that person though...if not fully entrenched in the minds of every board 8er....it could seriously backfire.

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neonreaper
02/10/12 9:11:00 AM
#24:


SAWURFACEANDWOW posted...
neonreaper posted...
Crim's move is actually also terrible - you don't have to apologize to Xbyte. save it for when a division is stacked with people who all vote "I'd plustwo you in almost any other division". why is "plustwo" failing spellcheck? UOTY has been around for long enough

You never know if your minus and lack of apology to Xbyte could drive him over the edge and cause him to vote against you in not just UOTY, but every other user contest forever.


oh I'm sorry do you wear a UOTY championship ring

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ExThaNemesis
02/10/12 9:20:00 AM
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From: neonreaper | #024
oh I'm sorry do you wear a UOTY championship ring


oh jeez

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th3l3fty
02/10/12 9:22:00 AM
#26:


From: neonreaper | #018
Crim's move is actually also terrible - you don't have to apologize to Xbyte. save it for when a division is stacked with people who all vote "I'd plustwo you in almost any other division". why is "plustwo" failing spellcheck? UOTY has been around for long enough


perhaps Crim's move is a high-level technique that can only be used by females

quick, somebody get Ryoko in here!

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saveus_Maria
02/10/12 9:23:00 AM
#27:


I'd say an even worse slip-up in Crim's vote aside from the Xbyte thing is you know damn well she has never seen WishMeLuck915 post

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 9:23:00 AM
#28:


neon, I am sorry. I shouldn't have been so audacious. Perhaps a +3 in your next match will earn your forgiveness and your vote?

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EndOfDiscOne
02/10/12 9:25:00 AM
#29:


Honestly I liked seeing myself not show up in peoples' votes, because if I did it would more likely than not be a negative.

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neonreaper
02/10/12 9:40:00 AM
#30:


+3 in my next match is a slap in the face but better than +4

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DpObliVion
02/10/12 10:34:00 AM
#32:


Hey now, I've loved Crimson since before she even came out!


It also helps if your favorite team just lost to a users' favorite team, then you can -3 that user and he will just accept it as jealousy.

*glares at neon*


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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 10:36:00 AM
#33:


The Giants don't deserve to be called the champs. You lost to Washington twice. This is the year w/o a NFL Champion

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Rad Link 5
02/10/12 10:37:00 AM
#34:


From: UltimaterializerX | #031
Crim is a girl who does the "I'm a lesbian" thing that this board eats right up, so her strategy doesn't count.


Dismissing any strategy he's not capable of pulling off himself.

Typical Ulti.

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GenesisSaga
02/10/12 10:37:00 AM
#35:


Don't.

Real men have no regrets.

Apologizing only works for the wimminz...

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 10:38:00 AM
#36:


GenesisSaga posted...
Don't.

Real men have no regrets.

Apologizing only works for the wimminz...


I haven't apologized once and I got 0 UOTY points...I have to do something drastic

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SlymDayspring
02/10/12 10:39:00 AM
#37:


just make sure to tell the people you are anti-voting that you are only doing it because they are so "unique"

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The Mana Sword
02/10/12 10:39:00 AM
#38:


Sounds like you need an emergency "post here and I'll rate you" topic.

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voltch
02/10/12 10:40:00 AM
#39:


From: Rad Link 5 | #034
Dismissing any strategy he's not capable of pulling off himself.

Typical Ulti.




Ulti is totally a lesbian.

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neonreaper
02/10/12 10:43:00 AM
#40:


DpObliVion posted...
Hey now, I've loved Crimson since before she even came out!


It also helps if your favorite team just lost to a users' favorite team, then you can -3 that user and he will just accept it as jealousy.

*glares at neon*


every -3 helps fill the hole

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CrimsonOcean
02/10/12 10:43:00 AM
#41:


Well I didn't expect to come in here and see a topic all about my vote >__>

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KCF0107
02/10/12 10:49:00 AM
#42:


What's the percentage of users who actually pay attention to how a particular user voted for them? 3% tops?

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voltch
02/10/12 10:50:00 AM
#43:


89%

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Rad Link 5
02/10/12 10:50:00 AM
#44:


From: KCF0107 | #042
What's the percentage of users who actually pay attention to how a particular user voted for them? 3% tops?


Wars are won and lost on 3%.

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EndOfDiscOne
02/10/12 10:52:00 AM
#45:


KCF0107 posted...
What's the percentage of users who actually pay attention to how a particular user voted for them? 3% tops?

As much as I "literally could care less" about UOTY I do tend to remember who gives me -3.

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captaincanadian
02/10/12 10:52:00 AM
#46:


the proper strategy is to tell them to get over it and they probably shouldn't be involved in a popularity contest if they're going to get their feelings hurt/going to hold a grudge cause someone likes somebody else better than them.

i don't vote though so idk

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th3l3fty
02/10/12 10:54:00 AM
#47:


3% is pretty significant - just look at my last two R4 groups

2011
601 - voltch
551 - th3l3fty
541 - Justin_Crossing
413 - Realo


2010
Icehawk - 635
Princess Anri - 487
th3l3fty - 481
voltch - 308


and I lost by about as much in 2008 too

that 3% is your TICKET TO STARDOM

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Rad Link 5
02/10/12 10:54:00 AM
#48:


Cokes gave me a -3 once.

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SAWURFACEANDWOW
02/10/12 10:56:00 AM
#49:


captaincanadian posted...
the proper strategy is to tell them to get over it and they probably shouldn't be involved in a popularity contest if they're going to get their feelings hurt/going to hold a grudge cause someone likes somebody else better than them.

i don't vote though so idk


LMAO @ how poorly you play the game


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th3l3fty
02/10/12 10:57:00 AM
#50:


and man, just look at last year's finals

if yoblazer ticks off just one of the people who voted for him, he fails to win

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