Klazart uploaded a video asking for help to get his book a chance to get reviewed and with that a chance of getting signed:
this has apparently caused HUGE mess on the website http://www.authonomy.com/ as klazart came from nowhere and with a huge mob of fans rocketed his book's ratings up as well as destroying the veterans over there's influence ranking. Due to a faulty system obviousy. Reading the forums over there has been really entertaining for me. http://www.authonomy.com/Forum/Threads.aspx?forumId=2 edit: (basically in the video klazart asks his fans to "back" his book, which will give it a popularity rating which will be used by harpercollins to determine which books deserves a review and thus a chance of getting signed)
This seems to be a trend in internet voting/polling now. Where someone can get a huge amount of votes from internet communities for some other community/contest. Then those others get totally bent out of shape calling it cheating or rigging or whatever. But I think it is perfectly legitimate for a number of reasons. I really can't see any negative side of doing this, can anyone else?
hahaha this is great...did you read the comments on his book? It looks like a stream of his fans from YouTube fighting with old members of the site, who are deriding them for supporting his book without having read it. Do they know how the internets work?
The funniest part is that it looks like someone with the username Mathematics has spammed up the entire comment thread by copy/pasting entire math articles from Wikipedia - and people are taking him seriously!!
This is amazing - it's like a clash of "forum culture" with people who are totally unaware of its existence.
There are tons of disparaging comments about gamers in the comment thread - really sad stuff in there. Even though Klaz is pretty unpopular amongst staff at TL, I think we should support his book because
a) this is hilarious. b) anyone who categorically insults gamers deserves to pranked, at the very least.
On March 22 2009 14:33 CharlieMurphy wrote: This seems to be a trend in internet voting/polling now. Where someone can get a huge amount of votes from internet communities for some other community/contest. Then those others get totally bent out of shape calling it cheating or rigging or whatever. But I think it is perfectly legitimate for a number of reasons. I really can't see any negative side of doing this, can anyone else?
Well considering these particular circumstances, it's obvious that this was never what anyone at authonomy intended to happen when they wrote the rules...
Flame wars have begun and unfortunately I know who they are, for I am one of them. Gamers.
Do not engage. Do not rant and rave. For you will lose.
Stay reasonable and keep a cool head. Remember that you are writers and that your knowledge of technique, style and genre is your strength. Not flame wars.
I repeat. Do not engage
Keep your heads down, continue doing what you enjoy, reading, commenting and talking about writing on the forums. Or just playing around for fun.
If you take the fight to us then you will lose, for gamers eat forums for breakfast. We spend our days forming elite teams of special forces and talk tactics while you are sleeping. Flame wars are our meat and drink. You cannot win.
And that is not the purpose of this site.
This site is designed as a virtual slushpile, not a popularity contest. And from time to time an exploit is found.
Wow, Klazarts the man. He even defends what he did brilliantly. And I laughed so hard at those snobby book forumgoers. And I thought Teamliquid was elitist.
wow.. some of the comments posted by so called "writers" are really sad, those people need a life. Some are oozing out some much jealousy it's pathetic lol. .
EPT
