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[Genom]

Put in my vote for a new totall....

Total : 2630

2.5% Banshee
2.4% Voodoo2
1.1% Voodoo2-SLi
11.3% Voodoo3
0.2% Voodoo4
3.5% Voodoo5
2.9% Rage128 (Pro)
0.5% Rage MaXX
1.5% G200
20.0% G400 (Max) *
5.6% TNT
5.7% TNT2
6.5% TNT2 Ultra/Pro
9.0% GeForce 256
17.4% GeForce DDR
5.8% GeForce2
1.7% Savage4 Pro(+)
1.1% Savage 2000
1.4% anderer Chip

[SteveC]

Well I have a Matrox at home as well as work...

2.3% Banshee
2.3% Voodoo2
1.1% Voodoo2-SLi
10.9% Voodoo3
0.2% Voodoo4
3.5% Voodoo5
2.9% Rage128 (Pro)
0.4% Rage MaXX
1.7% G200
21.3% G400 (Max) *
5.5% TNT
5.5% TNT2
6.3% TNT2 Ultra/Pro
8.9% GeForce 256
17.3% GeForce DDR
5.6% GeForce2
1.7% Savage4 Pro(+)
1.2% Savage 2000
1.3% anderer Chip


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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Elie]

It does help voting twice from 2 different PC's eh


Total : 2870

2.3% Banshee
2.4% Voodoo2
1.0% Voodoo2-SLi
10.9% Voodoo3
0.2% Voodoo4
3.5% Voodoo5
2.9% Rage128 (Pro)
0.4% Rage MaXX
1.7% G200
21.6% G400 (Max) *
5.5% TNT
5.5% TNT2
6.3% TNT2 Ultra/Pro
8.9% GeForce 256
17.2% GeForce DDR
5.6% GeForce2
1.7% Savage4 Pro(+)
1.2% Savage 2000
1.3% anderer Chip

[Ees]

Right, the at 21.7%, but now for something completely different... This is a quote from their homepage:

Wer sich die bisherigen Ergebnisse ansieht, wird feststellen, daß die Anzahl der "Matrox G400(Max)"-Stimmen unrealistisch hoch ist. Hier dachte sich in der Tat ein minderbemittelter Vollidiot er könne uns und Euch einen Streich spielen und hat im Laufe des 20. Juli ca. 400 Stimmen für diese Karte abgegeben. Diejenige Person müßen wir aber enttäuschen - wir hatten die Ergebnisse die ganze Zeit im Blick und besonders nach der 1000sten Stimme bewegte sich nur noch was im Nachkommabereich. Demzufolge werden wir nach dem Ende des Polls die G400-Werte so korrigieren, daß sie wieder diese 6 % errreichen, die sie vor diesem unsinnigen "Streich" hatten. Sorry für die ehrlichen G400-User, daß diese dann nicht so genaue Resultate ihrer Karte sehen können (noch dazu, wo ich selber eine G400 Max hier in Betrieb habe). Unser nächster Poll wird aller Vorraussicht nach keiner von PollNow! sein, den nächsten werden wir dann selber auf unserem Server unterhalten.

And for those of you that don't speak German... the upshot is that the results for the G400 are unrealistically high. Some "complete idiot" (Vollidiot) voted roughly 400 times during July the 20th... They will "correct" the results afterwards to give the G400 6%...

I guess that the combined readers of the MURC-forums count as one Vollidiot.

Martin

[fds]

Back when people were doing polls on which is your favorite site for this and that, it was found to be a bad idea for the sites in the poll to inform their readers about it.

Sure they got almost all of their readers to go to the site with the poll and vote for their favorite, which in the end only meant that the result is completely meaningless.

Those sites which linked to the poll got plenty of votes, those which didn't only had a few.

When making any kind of statistics, you have to select an average audiance for the results to have any meaning at all. That's for example all the people who were already frequenting the site which did the poll. Not these people plus a whole bunch of MURCers who never ever would have visited their site otherwise.

That said, I did vote for the G400 when Maggi posted his message, though only once, not four hundred times. It's still fun.

[This message has been edited by fds (edited 22 July 2000).]

[Maggi]

Hi Guys,

I mailed that site about that comment and asked them if they could have a lokk into here so that they can the it wasn't only one fullidiot ...

I pointed out that we are 5887 registered users and I think if we all had voted, the poll could have taken a really strange turn ...

Thanx for your effort, dudes !
Maggi

[dZeus]

even with 400 votes less, were at 9.6%... not that bad, is it?

[This message has been edited by dZeus (edited 22 July 2000).]

[Rik]

What do they mean - Volidiots?
We are all participating in performance art, revealing the irony and futility of....err...something or other.

[Pushkin]

Dear Matrox-users, please stop manipulating our poll!

Yes, i mean the poll from http://www.3dcenter.de! You can see the current results at http://www.pollnow.com/Qus/QusExec.cgi?QusID=116445 - with Matrox G400 scoring 21.4% and thus top-rated. We all know this is unrealistic!

For you it is fun seeing your favorite card winning. For us - it isnt!

Well, now let's hit the nail on the head:

1.) FIRST READ - THEN THINK - FINALLY VOTE! Some of you didn't even know WHAT they are voting for. The question was: "Which 3D-chip do you currently use?". Got it, paulsc?

2.) VOTE THE **** ONLY ONCE! Poll-stats are WORTHLESS when users vote multiple times... You don't mind? We do! Remember - for us it is hard work to keep the site up!

3.) STOP MANIPULATING US! Some guys think it is cool to vote with 20 different IPs, I don't have anybody special in mind, ALBPM aka paul!

To all others who votet once (or maybe twice, for their brother's 3d-chip...): thank you for voting - please visit us again, we appreciate your opinion and your vote!

If you can't follow the 3 steps above - stay away from our site! You're making the poll uninteresting for all other users. Always remember: shit in - shit out!

@Maggi: du hast es wohl gut gemeint, shit happens!

BTW: we'll take results from 18th July: 6,0%.


--
Pushkin (webmaster of 3DCenter), posting for the 3DCenter-team

[dZeus]

who cares? it was loads of fun!

If you really want to know what videocard people are using, than you _shouldn't_ list the results until AFTER the closure date/time of the poll...

this way you're only asking for things like this to happen, and I hope you learned from it...

[Maggi]

Thanx for feedback, Pushkin !



Sorry if it drifted a little of hands, I hope your daily hits will increase though.

Cheers,
Maggi

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

shhh! (keep voting!)
jim

[Greebe]

Agreed 400 votes from a single source is wrong, but I will not vote just once! I have a Millennium G200 and a G400 Max! I also voted for a friend whom has a G40Max, but no Inet access at the moment.

[ALBPM]

My appologies Pushkin......

As you can see we do love our cards.

HIGH FIVE there Paulsc!!!!!!!!

<FONT SIZE=4>... ROTFLMAO<SUP>tm</SUP> ...
<FONT SIZE=1><SUP>tm</SUP> courtesy of ALBPM aka Darth Mahl [MU]<FONT SIZE=2>

[This message has been edited by ALBPM (edited 23 July 2000).]

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

I too have multiple matrox cards out there:
g200 millenium
g200 Mystique
g400 Vanilla
So I voted 13, err I mean 3 times
jim