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Subject: A love-it-or-hate-it parody
Our Jew parody seems to be something that either people love or people hate. At last check it was #1 on the weekly charts, but did receive 2 or 3 straight-1 votes over the past day.
It'll probably take another five or so straight-1 votes to knock it off the charts, but in the meantime, thanks for everyone who liked it, and thanks to the One-Guy for being jealous enough of its success to target it so fervently ;D One day, I hope to thank you with my whuppin' stick.
Peace!
Rice Cube
Subject: Re: A love-it-or-hate-it parody
Oh yeah, he hit the parody again! :D ;D
Subject: Re: A love-it-or-hate-it parody
I'd take your voting results over the one my defective shampoo parody http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/eltonjohn10.shtml(the product in the song is defective but not the song itself) It doesnt have any bad votes but not all that many only 8 i'd like to see some more sometime
Subject: Re: A love-it-or-hate-it parody
Let's think about this...
Either there is more than one 'one guy' or the one guy has access to a computer network and actually takes the time to vote on all of them.
Another possibility. It could be other, possibly normally respectable, parody authors who feel that your parody is preventing theirs from getting on the charts, so they are trying to defame it...
Subject: Re: A love-it-or-hate-it parody
I dunno man. I'm thinking that the guy(s) is tweaking the IP address or cookies to fool the system, and he must be REALLY bored to do this too. I don't know if he's targeted anyone else in the past couple days but it seems like our parody is getting hammered.
If one of our parodies doesn't make it on the charts, we just kinda shrug it off, and I think the parody authors who submit here know pretty much that amiright is more or less a hit-or-miss site. So I'm hoping none of the fellow parody authors are lame enough to try this bullcrap on us.
I guess our parody is just hit-or-miss, but it just seems VERY convenient that the one/two-votes have been piling up lately, right after it made the charts :-/ An objective voter would at least sing along to the parody and notice that it paced very well with the original (I sang it several times to the mp3 just to make sure). I don't care so much about the funny and overall as the pacing vote, which I think is getting the "spite vote".
And Tone-Def: What Watt and I do is just forward the parody links to our friends and family, announce it in the threads on this messageboard, and sometimes post it on our websites. It sorta gives a snowball effect for votes, which is why we're averaging about 25 votes per parody these days.
Subject: Re: A love-it-or-hate-it parody
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I dunno man. I'm thinking that the guy(s) is tweaking the IP address or cookies to fool the system, and he must be REALLY bored to do this too. I don't know if he's targeted anyone else in the past couple days but it seems like our parody is getting hammered.
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<fx: looks over shoulder> I've got luckier recently - only one or two of my recent songs have been hit by the 1s. Take "The Oldest PC in Town", for example: 20x5s, 1x4 and 1x1 - Chucky's voting breakdown makes it pretty obvious that it doesn't have much to do with the quality of the song, someone's voted 1s because they didn't like something, be it the song or the author. I'd guess that your "Jew Parody" was more likely given 1s by half-a-dozen blinkered nitwits who didn't actually read the words at all, rather than one person going out of their way to spike it. After all, it ain't exactly offensive - to quote one of your respondents: "pretty good for a goy" :-)
Personally, I can't abide Elton John, but that wouldn't make me vote 1s on parodies of his songs... quite the opposite in fact ;-)
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And Tone-Def: What Watt and I do is just forward the parody links to our friends and family, announce it in the threads on this messageboard, and sometimes post it on our websites. It sorta gives a snowball effect for votes, which is why we're averaging about 25 votes per parody these days.
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I kind of figure that tactic would end up losing me friends... especially recently, when output's been quite high. I tend to send links to the techie parodies to techie friends; political ones to those who like that kind of thing and so on. Though I'm definitely going to have to educate them to vote - I got half-a-dozen email replies complimenting The Genome Song (which I must admit I am rather pleased with), and the vote count went up by one...
Phil