We are in the process of procuring a more secure voting system. We’re not quite sure how long it will take as of yet. Somewhere between a week and the end of the month. Until then, Round 3 will be delayed.
It was completely unfair to remove my comment where I pointed out that AstroNerdBoy is only asking these questions so he can spin the pathetic nose dive of his so-called review blog as some horrendous criminal act by me. Everyone knows it’s impossible to force a low vote count with Polldaddy. AstroNerdBoy lost fair and square and wouldn’t have won in any of the Round 2 matches with his lousy 80 votes.
Well, in any subsequent rematches, we can be assured that you will win again, correct? If so, quite your whining. Whether you would have won or not, there were a couple things that caused the organizers distrust the system. Keep your bad vibes out, man.
You don’t get it. It’s obvious AstroNerdBoy will lose again if the match is kept fair and I have no fears about a potential rematch. I don’t see a reason for one, considering AstroNerdBoy‘s pathetic result and Shinde Iie’s consistently superior performance in both rounds, but if it’s held I don’t have an issue with it, I’ll just campaign against AstroNerdBoy‘s little propaganda and promo blog again like I have so far.
What I’m saying is AstroNerdBoy is trying to find a way to spin his loss as something caused by me, because his paymasters won’t be happy with him failing as badly as he did. He can’t win, so he’s looking to use the problems with some of the other matches to shift the blame for his match as well. That’s why I wanted to expose his agenda so the organizers won’t fall for it again like they did in the first tourney.
If you know nothing about it, you shouldn’t have accused me of manipulating the vote in the first tourney. I think you know all about it because how else could you and your pals cause surges by hundreds of votes then, while you only got mere 80 votes now that you were under close scrutiny.
Well, I guess this will give people a nice break. It was a bit exhausting trying to check out all the blogs and stuff.
Good luck on the alternative! Don’t feel bad if you have to fall back on PollDaddy because it didn’t work out.
It is kind of sad that it had to come to this though. I guess a few people really are taking this tournament seriously. Are you sure you guys aren’t giving away a hidden prize like a date with Scamp or something?
Oh yes, also re-do close matches like Ani-Nouto vs. Altair and Vega, Jinx vs. Kuriousity, prede vs. Just as Planned, Maschera vs. METANORN, and Ani-Gamers vs. Beneath the Tangles.
And then, of course, Chocolate Syrupy Waffles vs. Sekijitsu.
Doubt it – Sekijitsu already beat Hanners (easily predicted since I don’t even think he’s aware that he’s in the tournament) so it would be unfair to suddenly toss a Round 1 match in Round 3.
5 million is not second. I don’t think it’s even top 5. Just for starters, Kurogane, Sea Slugs, and Psgels have it beat hands down, plus there’s a small handful of other blogs which have similar traffic/post frequency to Metanorn but aren’t mainly author circle jerking in the comments.
I doubt those numbers too. 5 million over the life of Sankaku I can imagine. I think HuffPo gets about a million a year. But RC just overcounts. Point of fact, they were nowhere near 1% of that when Omni split from AB.
Oh, might I suggest making a stand-alone page for this? Possibly get a dev to write it for you? I know Gargron did a couple aniblogs and has a forum or something, so maybe he can do it.
It was bad enough to see some of my favourite blogs losing. Good luck to the coding genius; it would have been better if the anitourney blog was privately hosted than on WP. com.
Comments are good with formatting… perhaps too good since he highlights every instance of certain keywords. It is a welcome relief to see no walls of text in Tenchi Truth’s content. This guy comes off as extremely confident — never faltering or showing weakness. One thing Tenchi Truth’s comments could use are images, though I’m not sure it’s possible or even desirable.
After seeing AstroNerdBoy bold-faced so many times, the blog’s name firmly planted in my head, making me more likely to visit (and vote for) the site. This runs contrary to the spirit of Tenchi Truth’s messages. He insists that AstroNerdBoy is a terrible person and blog. Due to this glaring logic error, Tenchi Truth’s attempts at trolling fail miserably.
Do you have proof of that cause as I understand it, this Tenchi guy has hounded Astro since he was a moderator at the Ayeka Fanclub forums. It doesn’t make sense that he’d create fake drama in a losing cause.
People do all sorts of silly things for hits, and drama like this is an easy way to rake them in. I wouldn’t be surprised if the current Tenchi is Astronerdboy, especially given how much he’s trying to put ANB’s name out there. The real Tenchi might have already left or dropped this whole thing. This current Tenchi seems like a pathetic attempt to keep an uninteresting, outdated drama going for the sake of giving ANB attention. And seeing how much of an attention whore ANB is (e.g. deliberately baiting Tenchi in many of his posts)…
“And seeing how much of an attention whore ANB is (e.g. deliberately baiting Tenchi in many of his posts)…”
Really? Wow. That’s news to me. Outside of the announcement post I made for the tourney, please cite some posts I have made in the last 6-months where I baited this stalker. If many of my posts bait this stalker, then it should be quite easy for you to back your claims with proof.
“Outside of the announcement post I made for the tourney”
“I have made in the last 6-months”
lol. Nice qualifications. You might as well have said, “please cite some posts and comments that I didn’t bait Tenchi.”
p.s. I was around for the last tourney too, and you certainly seemed to enjoy playing up that drama then.
And also, no. I’m not going to link to your drama.
Shit doesn’t add up.
You find it easy to believe that someone has dedicated 8 years of their life to “trolling” ANB by linking to his site in every post they make? That’s insane. This is the most unbelievable thing about all this stupid shit.
As soon as Tenchi’s authenticity was questioned, this “ZeroRyoko” person posting here conveniently came in to swear up and down that Tenchi Truth is totally legit and a “serious threat”. But Google searches for “”zeroryoko” tenchi” and “”zeroryoko” astronerdboy” don’t turn up any relevant results except for this tournament. You’d think someone so familiar with the matter would have at least a post or two related to this shit.
There’s more shit too, but the gist is, it doesn’t make sense. Something is off about this whole thing and I don’t appreciate being jerked around by anyone other than Taiwanese prostitutes in shady hotels.
*sigh* I’d promised myself that I’d keep my trap shut, but I feel compelled to say something since people are reporting this to me.
Stalkers live in their own world with their own logic. Ask John Hinckley Jr. or Robert John Bardo.
When this mess all started, I wasn’t the sole target. He targeted posters on the Ayeka Fan Club BBS. He used hacked accounts, proxy servers, and other means to come in and harass us. As members began quitting, including those who ran the forums, I was put in charge. It was then that I became the sole target of this stalker’s obsession. If you’d like to see a sampling of his stuff, look here: http://tenchi-shill.blogspot.com/
Regardless, I consulted a lawyer once he popped me a threatening MSG on my blog. The lawyer agreed that it was a threat and had me consult law enforcement, whereby I opened a case file. Every message he sends to my blog is archived and sent to law enforcement. If I had money, I could pursue a strong, legal course to uncover whomever this guy is and get him to stop.
It is hard to believe that someone could be so obsessed with me, a nobody on the Internet. If it weren’t happening to me, I probably would be hard pressed to believe it too. However, there are insane people all over the world, and in that light, I just happened to win the lottery for obtaining an Internet stalker.
Let me try this again, WP having lost my first attempt.
AstroNerdBoy, with all due respect, if this sod was really after your life, I don’t think he’d still be posting his stupid message of “truth” after 8 years or whatever the claim is. You’re making a fool of yourself by comparing a petty Internet troll to big name killers. I’m starting to think the people who say you’re begging for attention have a point, because while this chap is definitely an annoyance, for you to compare yourself to Ronald Reagan is a clear sign of megalomania. I don’t see the trigger-happy American law enforcement not making a move on the bugger many years ago if he represented the level of threat you’ve suggested. I think not only Tenchi Truth, but you too need to take a step back from this and consider if your words and actions make sense, my good chap.
I’m partial to Tenchi’s antics since the previous tourney, because drama entertains me and he keeps on giving. That said, isn’t there a diconnect between your friends setting up a special blog to bait and make fun of the guy and you claiming here that he’s a major threat? I appreciate the drama, but it doesn’t add up, dude.
What Tenchi Truth is doing is like product placement. He’s throw “AstroNerdBoy” out there many times along with linking the website. If this troll is out to destroy AstroNerdBoy, he’s doing the opposite here on Aniblog.
Either he’s incredibly fucking stupid or he’s actually AstroNerdBoy staging drama for page hits. I know which one I lean towards.
Dark_Sage, do you have a comprehension problem? I already said this once, this guy is well known to all long time Tenchi fans. He’s been attacking ANB for years in retaliation for ANB permabanning him after finding incontrovertible evidence of his incessant trolling of Tenchi forums, which he also did for years. This is a very serious situation that has been reported to law enforcement.
This is beyond ridiculous. On the one hand, we have an egomaniacal moron who claims to be fighting for some sodding “truth” about Tenchi. On the other, we have AstroNerdBoy and his friends over-dramatising the whole thing as though this chap is a super-stalker of some kind.
@Tenchi Truth: You seriously need to get a life and stop spouting your nonsense, especially at a place that has nothing to do with your precious Tenchi. No one here gives a rat’s ass about your “truth”, you’re just spoiling the good sporting mood with your mindless campaign. Can’t you understand that Tenchi is just an anime and it’s really bloody stupid to hold a grudge over someone liking what you don’t?
@AstroNerdBoy & friends: I’m sorry the bugger keeps pestering you, but this chap quite simply doesn’t come across as someone bright enough to pose an actual threat or hide from the law for years, so you may want to go easy on the legend-building rhetoric. There’s no point in aggrandising this moron beyond the petty nuisance he is. Please just ignore him like the rest of us are trying to do.
I admit, I shouldn’t have even mentioned him when the contest was announced. I was advised not to, but to be honest, I already knew what would happen and I hoped for a non-tainted competition. It was my mistake and it won’t happen again.
Another thing you can do while you’re at it, is to actually be active and engaged in this whole tourney. I barely see the admins and the vote problem before was handled poorly. Be happy, spread love, make fun!
I think you people need a little more perspective before you jump to snap judgements about this AstroNerdBoy thing. Warning: SRS BSNS Tenchi fan drama behind these links.
If some of you think this is AstroNerdBoy posting under an alias to rake in hits, I promise you it’s not. I just wanted you to see that nearly all of what’s called “drama” in the aniblogosphere is minor mood swings compared to when people really tear into each other over anime. It pains me to see what all this has done to the Tenchi fandom. Don’t anyone let this kind of distrust and anger destroy your communities.
And we have another comment full of Astro’s name and linking to his blog and some pre-historic drama to evoke sympathy for him. For crissakes… Is your blog really doing so badly post-Negima that you need this?
this almost warranted a facepalm, then I realized that it wasn’t worth the effort. Typing that sequence of events was necessary because this charade you are trying to pull is sad. Grow up.
Amazing persistence. It’s interesting that all of these defenders have very similar English competency and formatting style with hyperlinks and boldfacing. The style reminds me of none other than AstroNerdBoy.
That’s actually a cool idea, but it would take far too long to set up I would think. Could be a cool idea if there’s another Aniblog. I think it would be better to start in group stages too it would move everything along a bit faster. Or maybe it wouldn’t. But everyone likes a losers bracket, especially losers……
Then again, if the purpose of the tournament is to find new and exiting blogs, then a losers bracket doesn’t serve much of a purpose. I still like the idea though it’s pretty cool. We use them at YMCA events when we set up tournaments.
Wow tons of Drama here. My own blog lost, with it going down during the voting an all😄 (Hacked and what not).
I just thought I’d throw in an offer to host the Aniblog tourney on my server if needed for next time. I love the idea of the aniblog tourney and what it does for all sites involved.
So yeah, if needed, I can host it for free on my own server hosting.
I’ve taken the liberty of updating the Tourney Brackets myself so for anyone who wants it here it is. I’ve replaced the links with the titles of the blogs.
Hmm…part of me wouldn’t be surprised if the tourney just halted like a blog going on hiatus. Especially if falling back on Polldaddy is the only option.
Why not do this: Instead of easily manipulable polls and voting systems, why not just get the owners of the blogs that lost (and maybe some other trustworthy people) and have them cast their votes in ballots a la Anime Power Rankings. I know this sounds circle-jerk-y, but it does make the whole competition not completely reliant on popularity. Feel free to improve on this.
How about we just keep vote manipulation in and stop caring about it. I mean, if you allow anyone to vote, I could go get a ton of my buddies from class, users from a forum I run, viewers of my livestreams, or a ton of other things to sway the vote in the favor of whomever I see fit. This isn’t a true competition, it is for fun.
Seriously, someone may have cheated, that’s a Very Bad Thing™. I understand. Even so, bringing the entire thing to a halt because of it is just blatant mismanagement.
If you resort to cheating in an Aniblog Tournament, in which the winner gains nothing more than a big ego, then you’re a pussy, and you should jump off your roof (safely).
I remember every single one of those poor Nigerian faces whom I forced into clicking a button on a little-known website pitting various authors’ opinions about foreign cartoons together😥
I say continue to use Polldaddy. This’ll never truly be “fair” no matter which voting software is used.
Just finish things up how they began or officially cancel it. Please make a call, Aniblog organizers, because the tournament is reeking of neglect now.
Sounds hot.
What brought this on?
It was completely unfair to remove my comment where I pointed out that AstroNerdBoy is only asking these questions so he can spin the pathetic nose dive of his so-called review blog as some horrendous criminal act by me. Everyone knows it’s impossible to force a low vote count with Polldaddy. AstroNerdBoy lost fair and square and wouldn’t have won in any of the Round 2 matches with his lousy 80 votes.
Well, in any subsequent rematches, we can be assured that you will win again, correct? If so, quite your whining. Whether you would have won or not, there were a couple things that caused the organizers distrust the system. Keep your bad vibes out, man.
You don’t get it. It’s obvious AstroNerdBoy will lose again if the match is kept fair and I have no fears about a potential rematch. I don’t see a reason for one, considering AstroNerdBoy‘s pathetic result and Shinde Iie’s consistently superior performance in both rounds, but if it’s held I don’t have an issue with it, I’ll just campaign against AstroNerdBoy‘s little propaganda and promo blog again like I have so far.
What I’m saying is AstroNerdBoy is trying to find a way to spin his loss as something caused by me, because his paymasters won’t be happy with him failing as badly as he did. He can’t win, so he’s looking to use the problems with some of the other matches to shift the blame for his match as well. That’s why I wanted to expose his agenda so the organizers won’t fall for it again like they did in the first tourney.
Nice. Very nice indeed.
Makes sense.
Let’s start the whole tourney over.
It’s really too bad that Polldaddy is all that is available for free wp.com accounts, because Polldaddy is so awful.
Why is it so awful? I don’t know anything about it myself.
It’s relatively easy to rig because it’s not very secure.
If you know nothing about it, you shouldn’t have accused me of manipulating the vote in the first tourney. I think you know all about it because how else could you and your pals cause surges by hundreds of votes then, while you only got mere 80 votes now that you were under close scrutiny.
While you’re at it, why not post about the tourney on bigger sites?
I tried Reddit, but it auto-downvoted me.
Well, Reddit.
Well, I guess this will give people a nice break. It was a bit exhausting trying to check out all the blogs and stuff.
Good luck on the alternative! Don’t feel bad if you have to fall back on PollDaddy because it didn’t work out.
It is kind of sad that it had to come to this though. I guess a few people really are taking this tournament seriously. Are you sure you guys aren’t giving away a hidden prize like a date with Scamp or something?
A….date with Scamp?! I MUST WIN! O_O
Maybe we should redo some of the matches…..say…..match 43?
I say we should do joke matches until a secure system is up. For example, O-New vs. Shameful Otaku Secret, or Lost in America vs. Random Curiosity.
This, man. THIS.
Oh yes, also re-do close matches like Ani-Nouto vs. Altair and Vega, Jinx vs. Kuriousity, prede vs. Just as Planned, Maschera vs. METANORN, and Ani-Gamers vs. Beneath the Tangles.
And then, of course, Chocolate Syrupy Waffles vs. Sekijitsu.
i wouldn’t mind a mock match with CSW just to see how we’d fair with them ^^ Of course, only if the crew at CSW wishes so while we wait for round 3 ;D
Hey, if we ask nicely from the organizers, maybe they’ll let us.
Doubt it – Sekijitsu already beat Hanners (easily predicted since I don’t even think he’s aware that he’s in the tournament) so it would be unfair to suddenly toss a Round 1 match in Round 3.
Oh “mock” match didn’t see that. I’ve just been busy scrimming with my team lately so I won’t even have time to advertise it… maybe?
Let’s do Listless Ink vs Random Curiosity!
What are the most-visited blogs in the sphere, anyways? Random Curiosity comes first with 90 million views and second is METANORN with… 5 million…
RandomC is 90 mil? Really? META being second doesn’t surprise me but the 5 million count does.
5 million is not second. I don’t think it’s even top 5. Just for starters, Kurogane, Sea Slugs, and Psgels have it beat hands down, plus there’s a small handful of other blogs which have similar traffic/post frequency to Metanorn but aren’t mainly author circle jerking in the comments.
BlogSuki, Kurogane, Sea Slugs, THAT…. and METANORN. I guess we will never know who’s got more views than the other.
I know that Random Curiosity is 90 million because they have a sitecounter widget, dunno about METANORN’s stats or even if they’re second, though.
I doubt those numbers too. 5 million over the life of Sankaku I can imagine. I think HuffPo gets about a million a year. But RC just overcounts. Point of fact, they were nowhere near 1% of that when Omni split from AB.
Like I’d have a chance!
And Div would plotz anyway. RC is a non-competitor in blog tournaments.
You might, you’re winning by the largest margins this tourney (bar METANORN), I think?
Well, that’s nice to see, I won’t lie. But I’m pretty sure I’d be meeting my Waterloo going up against RC.
Most consistent writer for RandomC goes against RandomC. If you and Stilts left…. lol
Test matches, yes. +1 Bring on the hosting and the codes babe.
I suggest using Google Docs spreadsheet for perfect accountability of voters.
That’d be a hell of a pain to count!
Oh, might I suggest making a stand-alone page for this? Possibly get a dev to write it for you? I know Gargron did a couple aniblogs and has a forum or something, so maybe he can do it.
Anyone in favor of starting the tourney all over again???
It was bad enough to see some of my favourite blogs losing. Good luck to the coding genius; it would have been better if the anitourney blog was privately hosted than on WP. com.
Critique of Tenchi Truth’s comments:
Comments are good with formatting… perhaps too good since he highlights every instance of certain keywords. It is a welcome relief to see no walls of text in Tenchi Truth’s content. This guy comes off as extremely confident — never faltering or showing weakness. One thing Tenchi Truth’s comments could use are images, though I’m not sure it’s possible or even desirable.
After seeing AstroNerdBoy bold-faced so many times, the blog’s name firmly planted in my head, making me more likely to visit (and vote for) the site. This runs contrary to the spirit of Tenchi Truth’s messages. He insists that AstroNerdBoy is a terrible person and blog. Due to this glaring logic error, Tenchi Truth’s attempts at trolling fail miserably.
If there was a Like button for your above comment, I so would have hit it!
That’s because Tenchi is one of Astro’s sockpuppet accounts.
Do you have proof of that cause as I understand it, this Tenchi guy has hounded Astro since he was a moderator at the Ayeka Fanclub forums. It doesn’t make sense that he’d create fake drama in a losing cause.
People do all sorts of silly things for hits, and drama like this is an easy way to rake them in. I wouldn’t be surprised if the current Tenchi is Astronerdboy, especially given how much he’s trying to put ANB’s name out there. The real Tenchi might have already left or dropped this whole thing. This current Tenchi seems like a pathetic attempt to keep an uninteresting, outdated drama going for the sake of giving ANB attention. And seeing how much of an attention whore ANB is (e.g. deliberately baiting Tenchi in many of his posts)…
“And seeing how much of an attention whore ANB is (e.g. deliberately baiting Tenchi in many of his posts)…”
Really? Wow. That’s news to me. Outside of the announcement post I made for the tourney, please cite some posts I have made in the last 6-months where I baited this stalker. If many of my posts bait this stalker, then it should be quite easy for you to back your claims with proof.
“Outside of the announcement post I made for the tourney”
“I have made in the last 6-months”
lol. Nice qualifications. You might as well have said, “please cite some posts and comments that I didn’t bait Tenchi.”
p.s. I was around for the last tourney too, and you certainly seemed to enjoy playing up that drama then.
And also, no. I’m not going to link to your drama.
Shit doesn’t add up.
You find it easy to believe that someone has dedicated 8 years of their life to “trolling” ANB by linking to his site in every post they make? That’s insane. This is the most unbelievable thing about all this stupid shit.
As soon as Tenchi’s authenticity was questioned, this “ZeroRyoko” person posting here conveniently came in to swear up and down that Tenchi Truth is totally legit and a “serious threat”. But Google searches for “”zeroryoko” tenchi” and “”zeroryoko” astronerdboy” don’t turn up any relevant results except for this tournament. You’d think someone so familiar with the matter would have at least a post or two related to this shit.
There’s more shit too, but the gist is, it doesn’t make sense. Something is off about this whole thing and I don’t appreciate being jerked around by anyone other than Taiwanese prostitutes in shady hotels.
*sigh* I’d promised myself that I’d keep my trap shut, but I feel compelled to say something since people are reporting this to me.
Stalkers live in their own world with their own logic. Ask John Hinckley Jr. or Robert John Bardo.
When this mess all started, I wasn’t the sole target. He targeted posters on the Ayeka Fan Club BBS. He used hacked accounts, proxy servers, and other means to come in and harass us. As members began quitting, including those who ran the forums, I was put in charge. It was then that I became the sole target of this stalker’s obsession. If you’d like to see a sampling of his stuff, look here: http://tenchi-shill.blogspot.com/
Regardless, I consulted a lawyer once he popped me a threatening MSG on my blog. The lawyer agreed that it was a threat and had me consult law enforcement, whereby I opened a case file. Every message he sends to my blog is archived and sent to law enforcement. If I had money, I could pursue a strong, legal course to uncover whomever this guy is and get him to stop.
It is hard to believe that someone could be so obsessed with me, a nobody on the Internet. If it weren’t happening to me, I probably would be hard pressed to believe it too. However, there are insane people all over the world, and in that light, I just happened to win the lottery for obtaining an Internet stalker.
Let me try this again, WP having lost my first attempt.
AstroNerdBoy, with all due respect, if this sod was really after your life, I don’t think he’d still be posting his stupid message of “truth” after 8 years or whatever the claim is. You’re making a fool of yourself by comparing a petty Internet troll to big name killers. I’m starting to think the people who say you’re begging for attention have a point, because while this chap is definitely an annoyance, for you to compare yourself to Ronald Reagan is a clear sign of megalomania. I don’t see the trigger-happy American law enforcement not making a move on the bugger many years ago if he represented the level of threat you’ve suggested. I think not only Tenchi Truth, but you too need to take a step back from this and consider if your words and actions make sense, my good chap.
I’m partial to Tenchi’s antics since the previous tourney, because drama entertains me and he keeps on giving. That said, isn’t there a diconnect between your friends setting up a special blog to bait and make fun of the guy and you claiming here that he’s a major threat? I appreciate the drama, but it doesn’t add up, dude.
What Tenchi Truth is doing is like product placement. He’s throw “AstroNerdBoy” out there many times along with linking the website. If this troll is out to destroy AstroNerdBoy, he’s doing the opposite here on Aniblog.
Either he’s incredibly fucking stupid or he’s actually AstroNerdBoy staging drama for page hits. I know which one I lean towards.
Dark_Sage, do you have a comprehension problem? I already said this once, this guy is well known to all long time Tenchi fans. He’s been attacking ANB for years in retaliation for ANB permabanning him after finding incontrovertible evidence of his incessant trolling of Tenchi forums, which he also did for years. This is a very serious situation that has been reported to law enforcement.
This is beyond ridiculous. On the one hand, we have an egomaniacal moron who claims to be fighting for some sodding “truth” about Tenchi. On the other, we have AstroNerdBoy and his friends over-dramatising the whole thing as though this chap is a super-stalker of some kind.
@Tenchi Truth: You seriously need to get a life and stop spouting your nonsense, especially at a place that has nothing to do with your precious Tenchi. No one here gives a rat’s ass about your “truth”, you’re just spoiling the good sporting mood with your mindless campaign. Can’t you understand that Tenchi is just an anime and it’s really bloody stupid to hold a grudge over someone liking what you don’t?
@AstroNerdBoy & friends: I’m sorry the bugger keeps pestering you, but this chap quite simply doesn’t come across as someone bright enough to pose an actual threat or hide from the law for years, so you may want to go easy on the legend-building rhetoric. There’s no point in aggrandising this moron beyond the petty nuisance he is. Please just ignore him like the rest of us are trying to do.
No Need for Tenchi!
I admit, I shouldn’t have even mentioned him when the contest was announced. I was advised not to, but to be honest, I already knew what would happen and I hoped for a non-tainted competition. It was my mistake and it won’t happen again.
Really, this argument thread is so pathetic, it’s not even funny.
Really? I personally thought it was pretty funny in the “oh god this is so pathetic” way.
BWAHHAAAAAA!!!! (I’m sorry, this was just too good!)
Another thing you can do while you’re at it, is to actually be active and engaged in this whole tourney. I barely see the admins and the vote problem before was handled poorly. Be happy, spread love, make fun!
Is it alright if I ask for an updated bracket while we’re waiting please? ^^
Tofu too itchy to get this started.
Here you go Tofu, I had some time and updated them myself with the blog names.
I think you people need a little more perspective before you jump to snap judgements about this AstroNerdBoy thing. Warning: SRS BSNS Tenchi fan drama behind these links.
Here’s something by a former mod at the Ayeka Fan Club, The History Of Tenchiverse Forums or History of the Tenchiverse Forums.
The Absolutely True Ancient History Of Tenchiverse Forums is the response by the main accused baddie of that history, the person some people believe is Tenchi, … who apparently decided to aquire the long defunct ayekafanclub.org domain to rub it in: Announcement from Princess Ayeka: Club under a new Miss Management.
This all ties in with AstroNerdBoy’s drama report from the 2010 tournament ANB Enters Round 2 of the Aniblog Tournament — aka: Drama Part 2 and this one from the other side from 2009 Setting the record straight.
If some of you think this is AstroNerdBoy posting under an alias to rake in hits, I promise you it’s not. I just wanted you to see that nearly all of what’s called “drama” in the aniblogosphere is minor mood swings compared to when people really tear into each other over anime. It pains me to see what all this has done to the Tenchi fandom. Don’t anyone let this kind of distrust and anger destroy your communities.
And we have another comment full of Astro’s name and linking to his blog and some pre-historic drama to evoke sympathy for him. For crissakes… Is your blog really doing so badly post-Negima that you need this?
this almost warranted a facepalm, then I realized that it wasn’t worth the effort. Typing that sequence of events was necessary because this charade you are trying to pull is sad. Grow up.
Amazing persistence. It’s interesting that all of these defenders have very similar English competency and formatting style with hyperlinks and boldfacing. The style reminds me of none other than AstroNerdBoy.
http://www.whiners.pro/2012/05/aniblog-stuff-round-2-the-shit-i-forgot-to-tell-you-about/#comment-18766
… You have a lot of free time.
Yep, this is SRS BSNS, alright. What the heck is wrong with you people?
You should do a losers bracket during the recess. Every voter gets 80 votes. Thus, the most determined losers will be allowed back into the tourney.
That’s actually a cool idea, but it would take far too long to set up I would think. Could be a cool idea if there’s another Aniblog. I think it would be better to start in group stages too it would move everything along a bit faster. Or maybe it wouldn’t. But everyone likes a losers bracket, especially losers……
Then again, if the purpose of the tournament is to find new and exiting blogs, then a losers bracket doesn’t serve much of a purpose. I still like the idea though it’s pretty cool. We use them at YMCA events when we set up tournaments.
This comment thread made my day. Poor ANB.
Poor ANB? I’d imagine Tenchi is the best thing that’s happened for his traffic in recent. At least, he is still trying to milk it this time around.
Wow tons of Drama here. My own blog lost, with it going down during the voting an all😄 (Hacked and what not).
I just thought I’d throw in an offer to host the Aniblog tourney on my server if needed for next time. I love the idea of the aniblog tourney and what it does for all sites involved.
So yeah, if needed, I can host it for free on my own server hosting.
Yeah even I could help with web hosting.
Hello admins
I’ve taken the liberty of updating the Tourney Brackets myself so for anyone who wants it here it is. I’ve replaced the links with the titles of the blogs.
Jesus christ why would you do this :c
thanks a bunch star! ^^
Notice how Daifuuku is in a different color. Nice one, Star.
Hehehehehe.
Jesus that must have taken forever. To be honest, I think it’s easier to follow than using the URLs. Nice work!
Thank you ^^
I think there’s error in the red bracket: Shonenbeam didn’t win in second round, did it? @_@
Changed! The new image is on the same url
You are a good person Star-Chan. May you find happiness in life and anime.
D’aww, thank you ^^
Hmm…part of me wouldn’t be surprised if the tourney just halted like a blog going on hiatus. Especially if falling back on Polldaddy is the only option.
One week later. I expect SOMETHING from our dear admins.
This is very un-good.
Tourney canceled. Everyone who didn’t lose won and everyone who lost needs to gtfo of blogging.
I didn’t lose… so I won?!
Yay!
AB.net blogs win everything. Tourney’s over, roll credits.
It’s okay, at least the AniISSS Tournament is still happening for whenever it ends….it goes forever!
http://glothelegend.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/important-aniisss-update-eye-sedso-disqualified-for-vote-manipulation/
Clearly, this is totally serious and NOT a huge joke.
Why not do this: Instead of easily manipulable polls and voting systems, why not just get the owners of the blogs that lost (and maybe some other trustworthy people) and have them cast their votes in ballots a la Anime Power Rankings. I know this sounds circle-jerk-y, but it does make the whole competition not completely reliant on popularity. Feel free to improve on this.
How about we just keep vote manipulation in and stop caring about it. I mean, if you allow anyone to vote, I could go get a ton of my buddies from class, users from a forum I run, viewers of my livestreams, or a ton of other things to sway the vote in the favor of whomever I see fit. This isn’t a true competition, it is for fun.
Seriously, someone may have cheated, that’s a Very Bad Thing™. I understand. Even so, bringing the entire thing to a halt because of it is just blatant mismanagement.
If you resort to cheating in an Aniblog Tournament, in which the winner gains nothing more than a big ego, then you’re a pussy, and you should jump off your roof (safely).
Shoulda just kept the shitty poll system. My interest levels have almost dropped to 0.
Doubt they are interested themselves. It was fun while it lasted.
Can’t really blame them with the sodding Tenchi Truth and AstroNerdBoy drama sucking the fun out of the whole thing.
Just go away.
Now I’ll never know how many people like Analog Housou!! Shobon!!!
You forgot how many votes you faked?
Oh. They never got to you. You’re so lucky.
I remember every single one of those poor Nigerian faces whom I forced into clicking a button on a little-known website pitting various authors’ opinions about foreign cartoons together😥
We love you, burning cauldron of hate, you. But please post more.
Seriously, two weeks now. If you are going to end it, then say so.
I say continue to use Polldaddy. This’ll never truly be “fair” no matter which voting software is used.
Just finish things up how they began or officially cancel it. Please make a call, Aniblog organizers, because the tournament is reeking of neglect now.
Big plays. Big dodges. This tournament is basically a round of CS Source.
Why not hide the poll results until the poll expires? Anyone who wanted to rig it will either try much harder or won’t try at all.
Or they can play it safe and fake 10-15.