Odd type of votebombing.

I've been oddly votebombed over the last few months. It's not a suddenly I have zero wins type of obvious votebombing but it very specifically keeps me below #1. If I am two below the top place and add three wins with additional debates, I will quickly be voted down to keep me under that line and LogicalMaster in #1. Not in my most recent debates but in debates going progressively older. It's an interesting phenomenon.

It's sufficient to keep me constantly nipping at the heels no matter how many wins I tend to add. It just pushes my older debates marginally southward to keep me in my place.

It's a new form of less obvious votebombing.

I'm guessing there are multiple groups of people involved in this "leaderboard" manipulation game as I was up by 115 debates a few days ago and instantly went down to 108. I went down to 107 last night, but went back up to 108 thanks to a debate which isn't recent. Not to mention that beem0r was up to 108 for one moment, but conveniently had a tied debate almost instantly after, hence bringing him down to 107.

I noticed the same thing. It's particularly amusing to me because I've been #4 *forever* and 1-3 keep swapping around XD

My win percent has gone from mid 80s, to ~70% as I've added wins. I had like 120 easily for a while then dropped to second place and haven't be able to move no matter what I do. Beem0r is also nipping at LogicalMaster's heels and kept just below him by the same untimely forces. It seems like LogicalMaster is being kept in place by the votebombing no matter how many debates I add or wins I warrant.

I wish the voter names were given properly. That way I could at least figure out who is doing it and get rid of them. As is, it's very annoying to tread water. I've wanted my #1 spot back for a while. I was planning on retaking the number #1 spot and quitting the site but it's been like a month and a half.

At 5/27/2009 2:44:39 PM, Tatarize wrote:

I was planning on retaking the number #1 spot and quitting the site but it's been like a month and a half.

Perhaps someone knows this and doesn't want you gone XD

To whoever just voted in favor of all of my debates: I appreciate the sentiment, but it really wasn't necessary. Assuming you haven't, I'd prefer you read and comment on them so that I may know what areas I need to improve in.

Now this is interesting. I had looked at this debate earlier, and I was tied 28-28. In fact, this debate had been like this for quite some time.

http://www.debate.org...

My attempt to take first place also involved voting against you LM in all your debates. I just switched my votes back. Now you can see there are only 9 debates that you aren't winning. Most of those simply countered the debates so you could take #1 spot back when I had 120, and you had like 129 debates total. But still you were first. So I voted against you and suddenly dropped like a rock in order to maintain my second place finish.

Now you can see the odd bias in favor of you.

Also, I figure if my score keeps going down to keep me in second place. I might as well give you a boost to give me some breathing room.

The culprit has to be someone (or multiple accounts) who has been online within the last 30 minutes.