Keysight 6000X 6Ghz Voting Is Live vote for Carlos A.

[DimitriP]

So what would it take to get a spike of 1,000 votes at the drop of a hat?

$50

 

[rx8pilot]

Nilu J probably is legit and her supporters are probably monitoring the current results so when the 1st place was compromised the uprising of votes would be a normal thing.

It is very hard to imagine that 400 people are actively monitoring her progress and only voting when needed within minutes of the competition showing progress.
My supporters have continued to post, share, push to deal with the increasing vote gap. The push is to a very large and diverse cross section of people, resulting in what you see in the recorded data. Large groups move slowly, not instantly.

[DimitriP]

Even if she is part of an ethnic or religious group

Tehre  There are a few Shia followers out there....

Still it doesn't answer the 1000 votes at the drop of a hat problem ....

[Towger]

The real question is how Keysight will handle the results at the end of the competition. 

[ez24]

I did not know why DimitriP posted the map, so I went through the posts to find the link, asking Shia for votes.

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/235037029-need-your-help-to-win-a-contest/

From the above link, there are "2" people doing the hard work (and can share the profits).  I now agree that her votes are coming from organizations and I guess it is a campus club and/or religious organizations related to Shia (and online sites like above).  My guess the other two do not have religious campus clubs to appeal to.  A small robot or electronics club cannot cut it.  So I would say bye bye to David and Carlos.  I did not see that this would turn into a religious contest ha ha.

[rx8pilot]

Yep, this should totally do it for Nilu J.

136 views



As a comparison, this very thread has 14,383 views


I don't think any religion is providing HUGE support for anything other than top level religious issues - I don't think a water heater or an oscilloscope is a top level issue that will attract mass support on demand.

[ez24]

The real question is how Keysight will handle the results at the end of the competition.

FedEx

[SeanB]

The real question is how Keysight will handle the results at the end of the competition.

FedEx

Either the real deal or a box of bricks?

[DimitriP]

Ok...I have a theory .
Shia people are voting for Nilu and Sunis are voting for Dave K so Nilu won't win.

After all a "female engineer" in some religious circles is an oxymoron ...

On the other hand...there are a lot more Sunis on the planet, so Dave should be waaaay ahead by now...

What if the voting surges follow or precede a prayer schedule ?

My anti-consiracy medication is broken....

[rx8pilot]

24 Hours to go.

https://youtu.be/9jK-NcRmVcw

[lem_ix]

Why go for the scope? With those amounts of sympathizers they could just run for president  Voted

[DimitriP]

All the way up to 4894 ... and no leaf is moving since 5:10 PM PST .....

[rx8pilot]

Has David K given up? Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion.

I have my army of voters standing by for a big surge - expecting a photo finish.

Sent from my horrible mobile....

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Current positions:

Position		Votes		Name
1		10233		Nilu J.
2		9389		David K.		Trails leader by 844
3		4910		Carlos A.		Trails leader by 5323

[rx8pilot]

Nilu J:
Yesterday from 9a-8p (11hrs) ~970 votes
Today from 9a-7:30p (10.5hrs) ~400 votes

Is the water heater no longer able to make steam? Will the stand-off continue?
Looking forward to tomorrow.

[EEVblog]

I did not know why DimitriP posted the map, so I went through the posts to find the link, asking Shia for votes.
http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/235037029-need-your-help-to-win-a-contest/

If that thread is responsible for more than a hundred votes, I'll eat my hat.

[ez24]

www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/235037029-need-your-help-to-win-a-contest/]

If that thread is responsible for more than a hundred votes, I'll eat my hat.

I agree - I think she (they) get their votes via a school (or nationalist) thing

[EEVblog]

Nilu seems to do a lot of online promotion for example:
http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/235037029-need-your-help-to-win-a-contest/
https://www.reddit.com/user/yapani
https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/6233/need-your-votes
David otoh is a complete miracle to me 

those all have combined views of a few hundred, so maybe 30 engaged votes out of the 5000 in the last 72 hours lol

Yep, conversions on those promotions are at least two orders of magnitude too low for the numbers she is getting.
I have 330,000 subscribers and I'd struggle to garner the votes Nilu and David are getting.
Anyone who thinks these are legit votes earned through genuine self promotion is kidding themselves.
Absolutely fascinating to watch this all though!

[ChunkyPastaSauce]

If they're both cheating...positive feedback loop....next day and half will be pretty revealing

[rx8pilot]

If they're both cheating...positive feedback loop....next day and half will be pretty revealing

T-Minus 19 Hours

[Mr.B]

Bookmark. 


Edit: Yes, I am voting for you Carlos.

[Brumby]

I will be posting my update in about 20 minutes ... and I'll be including another chart which will show Votes per Day. 

I would have liked to have offered something with a bit more detail, but I don't really have enough data points to produce anything worth looking at.  What I do have isn't brilliant, but it does show some interesting trends - and changes in trends.

Edit: Add the following:
Each 'day' is defined as 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 MST, as defined in the competition.  As all samples were taken at times either side of midnight, I have split the votes from the periods that include midnight proportionally, according to elapsed time. (e.g. A delta of 100 votes occurring between 11pm and 3am will have 25 votes allocated to the day before midnight and 75 votes to the day after.)

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Current positions:

Position		Votes		Name
1		10375		Nilu J.
2		9389		David K.		Trails leader by 986
3		4928		Carlos A.		Trails leader by 5447

[Brumby]

Is it me - or is Carlos the only one whose voting pattern looks legit?  Start with a building exercise that gets voters in and after 6 days, a slight drop as interest wanes.  Then from 11 days on, we see the faithful hanging in there for him.

Nilu's first 4 days look ok, but there's a big loss of interest on the 5th day.  Then we have some striking changes in daily voter interest.

David only managed 3 days before the apparent loss of interest - and then has some even more striking changes.



Graphs are fascinating.

I might look at overlaying the two, to see the effect of total votes on voting frequency.  Just need a bit more time.

[Fohdeesha]

Is it me - or is Carlos the only one whose voting pattern looks legit?

Not you at all, that's the conclusion everyone here finally realized several days ago. As Lord EEVblog said himself above, you'd have to be crazy to think these amount of votes are legitimate. I have seen Carlos absolutely plaster the entire film industry, on some lists and groups he has threads with hundreds of replies and engagements. He can't even touch their votes-on-demand.


Your rate chart there proves it. With Carlos it's clearly shown that when you have hundreds of thousands of views of your contest video out there asking for votes (which he does) there cannot be any sudden changes in vote rate. The voting/viewing sample pool is too large to be jerked in either direction, you can't coordinate 1000 strangers to start or stop voting.


Compare it to nilus and davids graphs - laughably all over the place, going from growth indicating 900,000 ad impressions one hour to indication of 0 in 30 minutes. It's not mathematically possible without an external mass dump of votes on demand.


If Keysight does anything other than disqualify both of them, especially after seeing that, I'm going to be extremely disappointed in them as a company. Even if it meant the scope didn't go to Carlos but instead some random guy who didn't need it at all, that is still worlds better than rewarding blatant fraud