The official vote balance topic
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All posts in this topic must have a balance of 0 votes - if you see some wise-ass upvoting or downvoting a post, correct it!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ws_APXilE
couldn't find "What makes a man turn neutral?" on Youtube
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Bwahaha
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@CreatedToDislikeThis I did what I can to restore the balance, but the unbalanced are winning
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@wharrgarbl fixed
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@sloosecannon
Mwah ha ha.
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@izzion aargh!
We need reinforcements!
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in The official vote balance topic:
All posts in this topic must have a balance of 0 votes - if you see some wise-ass upvoting or downvoting a post, correct it!
I CAN'T LIKE ALL THE POSTS IN THE LIKES THREAD BUT GOSH DARNED IT I CAN IN THIS ONE!
..... except this one.......
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@accalia
Why settle for something so boring as upboating all the posts?
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in The official vote balance topic:
All posts in this topic must have a balance of 0 votes - if you see some wise-ass upvoting or downvoting a post, correct it!
@sloosecannon said in The official vote balance topic:
@wharrgarbl fixed
@izzion said in The official vote balance topic:
@sloosecannon
Mwah ha ha.@izzion said in The official vote balance topic:
@accalia
Why settle for something so boring as upboating all the posts?
I have balanced your posts. Pray I do not balance them any further.
ETA:
My Evidence
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(Almost) completely balance-fixed.
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Man, I've had to do some balancing, and it's still out of whack! The OP didn't say if it was allowed or not, but I hope removing an up or down vote is allowed in order to bring a post into balance.
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@abarker - it absolutely is.
And yeah, I did some balancing as well but it's still in peril...
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This is much harder and funnier than the other xvote topics
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heretic.
Likes Topic is the only True Topic of Liking.
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@darkmatter also, i didn't up or down vote anything in here... but i did like and dislike some posts.
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@wharrgarbl said in The official vote balance topic:
This is much harder and funnier than the other xvote topics
Especially since you can't just pick up from where you left off. You have to scan the whole thread everytime!
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@dcon said in The official vote balance topic:
You have to scan the whole thread everytime!
Yeah, sometimes the one you intentionally unbalanced is back at 0 and you have to switch votes to make it +/-2
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@darkmatter said in The official vote balance topic:
heretic.
Likes Topic is the only True Topic of Liking.
Indeed. But this is somewhat fun. For now.
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I voted at every post in topic to bring them to 0. Managed to rebalance 6 posts. But @darkmatter's post were already 0 so I downvoted him.
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everything is nicely off balance now.
I'm fairly proud of this one.
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@DogsB You bastard!
I've re-balanced what I could.
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ARGH!! Can't twitch balance twitch to twitch 0.
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The best part about this thread is I can hold everyone else's OCD hostage simply by inverting my up/down pattern from time to time. Now most of the old posts are 2 votes out of balance mwah ha ha ha!
Filed under: Trolling without deleting topics or flagging posts
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@Gąska it is particularly pleasing when one i have already liked or disliked is at 0... it means I get to jump it 2 places either to 2 or -2. The feeling is quite grand.
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@DogsB psh....
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@izzion damnit you ed me.
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@izzion
Added side bonus: people revoking their upboats to go back under a threshold for likes notifications (I'm set for notify on 1,5,10,25,...) means you'll get re-notified about the same post when a later upboater pushes you back to the threshold that you fell under.Not sure whether to classify that as a bug or not. Sort of working as intended and we're just
abusingrigorously testing forum features in this thread, but sort of an unexpected behavior since I already got a "1 like" notification for that post and now I'm getting another one. I guess call it a corner case?
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We seem to be out-numbered by the anarchists, but I did what I could.
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@pydsigner 21 of 30 posts have 0 now. Not bad.
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@Gąska said in The official vote balance topic:
@pydsigner 21 of 30 posts have 0 now. Not bad.
I'm ashamed to admit how long I sat there trying to downvote my own post
"Wow the cooties are bad right now"
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Fuck you @accalia.
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Everything at the moment is within [-1,1], and I got a few more to zero.
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You can tell the ones who are , since we're a lot more likely to have 0 net posts
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@Jaloopa said in The official vote balance topic:
You can tell the ones who are , since we're a lot more likely to have 0 net posts
Indeed you are, rules traitor!
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Looks like there are about 10 OGs I mean OCDs I mean CDOs in this thread. And at least 5 trolls.
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And one active bot.
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And @anotherusername is running this bot on his main account.
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It's random, so given enough time its votes are guaranteed to average out to 0.
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@Gąska
Do you qualify me as a CDO or a troll, since i'm alternating up and down votes for every post (skipping my own, but treating the pattern as though i had voted appropriately for my own)?Edit: And does the classification change if it's revealed that I periodically go all the way back through the topic and change all my votes to invert my pattern?
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@anotherusername said in The official vote balance topic:
It's random, so it's guaranteed to average out to 0.
You must have skipped your probability classes.
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@izzion said in The official vote balance topic:
@Gąska
Do you qualify me as a CDO or a troll (...)Guess yourself.
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@Gąska
On average, he figured he had a good chance at passing the course without attending the lectures. After all, a fair dice roll had never let him down on multiple choice tests...
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@izzion I would post appropriate xkcd but it has a high chance of getting more downvotes than usual.
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@Gąska said in The official vote balance topic:
@anotherusername said in The official vote balance topic:
It's random, so it's guaranteed to average out to 0.
You must have skipped your probability classes.
As the number of votes given goes to infinity, the number of upvotes and downvotes given will approach parity.
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@anotherusername there's something wrong with that sentence, but I'm not educated enough to tell exactly what. If the sum of infinite series of coin tosses (say, heads is 1 and tails is -1) is equal to 0, then the sum of the first coin toss and the infinite series of coin tosses is equal to the first coin toss. This sounds rather counterintuitive.
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@Gąska the summation is indeterminate, but the limit of the ratio between upvotes and downvotes is not indeterminate.
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@anotherusername can you post an equation? I'm actually interested in that topic, and all the Google results are either about probability of tossing infinite heads or about asymmetric coin (which needlessly complicate things).
Also, by limit, you mean limes, or boundary?
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@Gąska I'm not sure what the mathematical notation for random is.
But basically, as the number of samples increases, if the different options are equally probable and you're using a good source of randomness, the ratio between the individual options should gradually approach 1:1.
for (var i = 0, h = 0, t = 0; i <= 1e6; ) { ++ i; var r = Math.random(); // range of [0, 1) if (r < 0.5) ++ h; // range of [0, 0.5) is "heads" else ++ t; // range of [0.5, 1) is "tails" if (Math.pow(10, Math.floor(Math.log10(i))) == i) console.log('Samples:', i, '\nHeads:', h, '\nTails:', t, '\nPercent heads:', h/(h+t), '\nPercent tails:', t/(h+t)); }
I ran it 10 times and graphed the results. You can see each line starts with 1 sample at either 0% or 100% heads, but they all gradually converge toward 50% (because there are two equally probable outcomes) as the number of samples increases:
If you were a statistician (I'm not) you could probably define a sideways-pointed-cone area which you'd determine has a given chance (say, 99%) of containing the line from any run of that code.
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@anotherusername said in The official vote balance topic:
@Gąska I'm not sure what the mathematical notation for random is.
But basically, as the number of samples increases, if the different options are equally probable and you're using a good source of randomness, the ratio between the individual options should gradually approach 1:1.
Practical results are of no interest to me. Besides, you used pseudo-random numbers (probably Mersenne Twister, a pretty bad generator), not real randoms - this influences the results a lot.