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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 5414466" data-attributes="member: 50987">Holy anonymous votes, Batman!  The number of voters has more than doubled since this time yesterday, and at least two-thirds of them are all from anonymous voters.  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Over?  Where are all of these guests coming from?Anyway, there is a lot of data to crunch this morning and I have one of those spiffy day jobs that needs my attention.  So I'm going to just stick to the top three results: D&D 4E, D&D 3.x, and Pathfinder.As of 6:32 a.m. PST:PACING----------------------------The number of overall votes for D&D 4E has increased 184.95% since yesterday, but 68 of those votes are from anonymous voters and were not counted.  The number of registered votes has increased from 82 to 104 (a 126.83% increase).The number of overall votes for D&D 3.X has increased 275.00% (almost tripled) since yesterday, with 102 of those votes being from anonymous voters.  The number of registered votes has increased from 41 to 70 (170.73% increase).But check out Pathfinder!  The number of overall votes for Pathfinder has increased 447.54% in the last 24 hours...but almost 200 of these votes are from anonymous voters.  The number of registered votes has increased from 34 to 100 (a 294% increase).  This drastic outpacing of all the other votes, combined with the surge in anonymous votes, makes this very suspicious. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" />STATS BY GAME----------------------------D&D 4E:103 registered votes172 anonymous votesQuality: 59.88%Adjusted Rank: 52.55%Pathfinder:100 registered votes173 anonymous votesQuality: 36.63%Adjusted Rank: 51.02%D&D 3.x:69 registered votes74 anonymous votesQuality: 48.25%Adjusted Rank: 35.20%OVERALL STATS----------------------------Total Voters: 196Voters who played all top 3 games: 11 (5.61%)Voters who played only 2 of the top 3: 56 (28.57%)Voters who played only 1 of the top 3: 129 (65.82%)Of the 104 people who played D&D 4E:* 25 also played D&D 3.x (24.04%)* 26 also played Pathfinder (25.00%)* 63 did not play any of the other 2 (60.58%)* 10.58%  played all threeOf the 70 people who played D&D 3.X:* 25 also played 4E (35.71%)* 38 also played Pathfinder (54.29%)* 18 did not play any of the other 2 (25.71%)* 15.71%  played all threeOf the 100 people who played Pathfinder:* 38 also played 3.X (38.00%)* 26 also played 4E (26.00%)* 47 did not play any of the other 2 (47.00%)* 11.00% played all threeGLOSSARY----------------------------Quality:  Since anonymous votes are unreliable (some users like to skew poll results by voting more than once), all anonymous votes are thrown out.  The "quality" score is the percentage of votes that could be counted.Adjusted Rank:  The percentage of votes that the game received after all anonymous votes have been discarded.</blockquote>

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