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How's that whole ATOT Effect working?

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Ichinisan said:
Only to disqualify the other one for being "popular".

Justice for OP, who was unfairly disqualified for being popular.

That other user probably got all her referrals through Facebook, which celebrations.com actually allows because they WANT exposure through FB. When the celebrations.com folks saw a bunch of referrals from some "forums.anandtech.com," they said "WTF is this?" and unfairly disqualified OP's wife.

ATOT was "social media" before FB :colbert:
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This is my main problem with the DQ. Its plainly obvious that all entries towards the top of the pile were having multiple votes. Unless this site thinks that they get 5000 views of one cupcake a day...You could watch any of the entries and see that they would get a sudden rush of 100 votes, and then it would sit all day practically not increasing at all, then another batch of 150 votes. This doesn't even factor in drumsticks magic 1300 votes in 30 seconds.

Apparently they agree with me as well because they lowered all the vote totals. This means that they recognized that everyone else was inflating their votes with multiple votes as well. However, we are the only to get DQ'd. If you review this thread I don't think you'll find one case of me telling people to clear their cookies and revote. In fact, I told people in the OP they could vote for WHICHEVER cupcake they wanted to. The closest I can find to something suggesting to vote multiple times was saying "but now you have to vote at least a dozen more times" which was in reference to the voting length, not how many times to vote in a day.

So, like all you are realizing, I guess by that logic if we vote for one of these entries multiple times and post that we did, they should DQ them too.
 
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What's the prize? If it's just "you win!" then at least she can take solace in the fact that (almost) everyone here agrees hers were the best 🙂
 
The waffle cone cupcake is just utter garbage, it's a plain vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting inside a broken drumstick cone! I doubt the drumstick was made at home, the piping skills are something literally anybody could do, it smells like an inside job.
 
OP, I think you should call them, point to this thread and explain to them that this one of the largest tech forum on the planet, and the community is not happy with them. And that your votes were earned legitimately.
 
SSSnail said:
OP, I think you should call them, point to this thread and explain to them that this one of the largest tech forum on the planet, and the community is not happy with them. And that your votes were earned legitimately.
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Or we bombard their email address stating our dissatisfaction with the disqualification. This is the biggest load of horse manure I've seen in a while. 😡
 
The DQ is bullshit.

For the most part people were voting 1/day. Yes, I'm sure several killed cookies and did a lot more but that was never ask. No bots were released.

The drumstick obviously had a bot running and I'm sure a fair amount of clearing cookies as well.

Some people in this thread suggested bots but didn't use them (that I know of based on the rate OPs entry was getting votes) only to combat the obvious botter.

Obvious botter loses votes, OP who was fairly legit gets DQ'd.
 
Phoenix86 said:
The DQ is bullshit.

For the most part people were voting 1/day. Yes, I'm sure several killed cookies and did a lot more but that was never ask. No bots were released.

The drumstick obviously had a bot running and I'm sure a fair amount of clearing cookies as well.

Some people in this thread suggested bots but didn't use them (that I know of based on the rate OPs entry was getting votes) only to combat the obvious botter.

Obvious botter loses votes, OP who was fairly legit gets DQ'd.
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^ Yes that sums it up nicely.
 
It doesn't matter if they win as the OP stated that they would be happy with the second place mixer. I would think that would be much more useful for a badass cupcake making hot ATOT wife.
 
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