Ni hao, Browncoats!

This is a Wave across the Cortex for alla you flans out there who are currently
NOT voting
for Firefly on Rich Labonte's TV Vote site:

http://richlabonte.net/tvvote/index.html

I would like to ask a small favor of you. Go to the TV Vote site, bookmark it,
and, just once
a day (you /can/ vote up to once per hour), click the Firefly box, and, hit the
vote button.
One, two. That's it.


Firefly is still #1, but, we're trying to get to half a million points as soon
as possible, as
well as to secure a 10% share of all votes ever cast, and, to beat our current
record of 75
consecutive days at 1,000+ votes/day, which has been a problem, recently. There
are 317
members listed on this board; if even a fraction more of us voted just once per
day, it
would make a huge difference. That's Fan Power!

If you care to, you might choose to vote the "Joss Bloc," i.e., Firefly, Angel
and Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, especially since BTVS is in a good position to sneak past BSG,
if it gets
enough votes.

TV Vote doesn't use cookies; it only records your IP address, to verify that
multiple votes
cannot be registered by the same user within a given hour.


As it turns out, the TV Vote end isn't /quite/ so nigh:

"FLAtRich
Oct 20, 9:03 am
Nah. No end in sight. 5 million will be nice, but 6 million would be
nicer.
Besides, we gotta see Gunsmoke hit the Hall of Fame for Mr. Arness and
I think that'll take a bit longer.

Life goes on in the modern world,

)>FLAtRich"

(Quote from: http://tinyurl.com/yv2yu8 )

So, if we're goin' to 6M, we have 1,258,376 uncast votes, as of today. Divide
that by
yesterday's total votes cast, 11,648, and, you get about 108 days, more or less.
Votes are
still finite, though, not so scarce, right now. So, the end is in sight; we just
have a little
more breathin' room, is all.

For daily voting stats, analysis, and, discussion, go to:

http://tinyurl.com/2z5ktv

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=

P.S.:

Oh, and, if folks aren't currently nominating anything in the lower poll, Dark
Shadows
could use any help you can throw 'em. Really, even if you are nominating
anything else,
given the time frame involved, the only show in the Noms that's gonna ever break
out is
DS. So, if you care to see Hercules banished to the underworld, and, some of the
nicest,
middle-aged vampires you might care to meet made very happy, could you help vote
them
up outta the crypt?

I've been helping 'em out for a couple months, and, they've been discoverin'
(and, votin')
Firefly:

http://tinyurl.com/2xrxcw

They'll have just enough time to knock Hercules out and Cleopatra 2525 down to
40. Just
hit the "Noms" link at the bottom of the TV Vote page, and, type "Dark Shadows
(1966)"
into the polling box.

-RC =^[.]^=

--- In Midatlanticbrowncoats@yahoogroups.com, "leanderldor" <leanderldor@...>
wrote:
>
> Ni hao, Browncoats!
>
> This is a Wave across the Cortex for alla you flans out there who have ever
voted (or,
who
> might feel inclined to vote) for Firefly on Rich Labonte's TV Vote site:
>
> http://richlabonte.net/tvvote/index.html
>
> Time is running short; once the site re-opens at 7:00am ET tomorrow morning,
Saturday,
> October 20, there is now an end in sight to the poll.
>
> In August, we reached #1 in the poll, and, have been steadily drawing away
from the
rest
> of the pack. As of Friday, October 12, we beat Xena's all-time record for
consecutive
days
> at 1,000+ votes/day, with 74 days, and, going strong to extend our record.
>
> That same day, as some of you may already know, TV Vote was shut down for
about a
> week, due to cheating issues (not, thankfully, involving Firefly voters!):
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/tv_vote/browse_thread/thread/590c087c882dd534
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/tv_vote/browse_thread/thread/6576dfc72ad8e802
>
> Well, Rich Labonte has announced that TV Vote will open again, tomorrow:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/tv_vote/browse_thread/thread/1adb3f471fd812be
>
> However...
>
> Rich has declared his intention, at this point, to continue with TV Vote until
5,000,000
> votes have been cast in the Top 40.
>
> 4,612,636 votes were counted as of 10/12/07; not sure how many votes got
through or
> were counted, subsequent to that, before Rich locked the site down. That
leaves
387,364
> uncast votes, +/-.
>
> Just using the last counted day's total votes ('cause I'm too lazy to work up
a daily
average
> for the previous week =^[.]~=), 12,658, as a divisor, that leaves just over 30
remaining
> voting days, once voting resumes. That's 30 days to reach 500k.
>
> At last count, we were 63,286 votes short of 500k. You do the math. Actually,
I'll do the
> math: That would require us to get at least an average 2,110 votes each of the
remaining
> 30 days. The last day votes were counted, Firefly got 1,263 votes, about our
running
> average.
>
> Good news is, if we manage that, we will have gone over 100 days at 1k+
votes/day.
>
> I don't have to spell out the bad news, if we don't.
>
> So, let's go out with a bang! Meanwhile, if you know ANY Browncoats who have
voted
but
> stopped, 'cause there was no end in sight, or, who have never voted, let 'em
know we're
> gonna need 'em, this weekend, to keep our record-breaking streak alive, and,
to pack in
> as many votes as we can in the time remaining!
>
> Remember, you can vote once per hour, no registration required. If you want to
be sure
to
> remember when it's time, either download Flyvote, a timed program to remind
you when
> it's time to vote:
>
> http://usbmicro.com/misc
>
> ...or, do what I do, and, get a cheap travel alarm clock (mebbe $4US at
WalMart), and,
set it
> for the next time to vote. Slip it in your pocket so that you won't have to
hang around
the
> computer. I guarantee that'll help you to squeeze more votes outta your day.
>
> Warm up your vote timers, 'cause, we're rollin' tomorrow mornin'!
>
> I'll be in my training montage.
>
> Discussion and voting stats for Firefly on TV Vote:
>
> http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2254268&st=880
>
> -Raycheetah =^[.]^=
>
> P.S.: Since it is now a matter of remaining, available votes, the time has
come at which it
> would be prudent, for the benefit of Firefly, to consider paring down or
eliminating
other
> shows from our voting lists. The more votes we save, the longer we can vote
for Firefly.
> This is for 500k, something no other show has ever accomplished!
>
> Just to be sayin,'
>
> -RC =^[.]^=
>