Post Stats? What are they?

[Skanky Burns]

I'm beginning to think you don't actually have an answer. And you can work on blunting your "condescending *****" attitude while you think of an answer.

[Silver14]

Its only fair that everyone cast their votes around the same time. If no one asks the post stat question for a month should I really be allowed to cast my vote then after enough time has passed that others have all ready lost the days they picked?

[Skanky Burns]

What is the difference between picking a date 3 months away now, or waiting a month to pick a date 2 months after that time. They are a month closer to when the event will occur, but that still doesn't help them win it, plus they have the added disadvantage of not being able to pick the exact day they want if others have picked it already. If the event happens before they get their vote in then they miss out completely for that round, so obviously a vote in a month's time implicitly includes the risk of the event occuring earlier, the same as anyone picking a date beyond a month take the risk that it may fall before their date.

I don't see any real differences between the two situations, hence my question regarding Mr Attidude's reasoning.

[Silver14]

Well the alternative is that Dr Spike is a slacker and doesn't want to update the list later.

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by Jonny
It's been a week, I vote we let this thing drop already.

then drop by all means..

dont ruin the non-life that I am leading in this fine thread

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
I'm beginning to think you don't actually have an answer. And you can work on blunting your "condescending *****" attitude while you think of an answer.

There is an answer, which appeared in the very first post after yours.

Originally posted by Silver14
Its only fair that everyone cast their votes around the same time. If no one asks the post stat question for a month should I really be allowed to cast my vote then after enough time has passed that others have all ready lost the days they picked?

As to your comeback that people not guessing at the start of the contest would lose out were the next thread to appear soon after the current one - this is to an extent true. However, if someone comes along 6 weeks after the contest started (which is roughly what happened this round) I don't think I should compensate them for this loss by giving them a much better chance of success - i.e. allowing them to guess with the benefit of hindsight.

It's like walking in to a betting shop at round 10 of a boxing match, and arguing with the bookie that you should be allowed the same odds on a bet of the contest going the distance as someone who has been there since the start having made the same bet, who faced the risk of the fight ending in the first few rounds.

So the rule stands, I'm afraid.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by DrSpike
It's like walking in to a betting shop at round 10 of a boxing match, and arguing with the bookie that you should be allowed the same odds on a bet of the contest going the distance as someone who has been there since the start having made the same bet, who faced the risk of the fight ending in the first few rounds.

But it isn't. Does guessing after watching 10 rounds of a fight make your guess more accurate. Yes. Does guessing a month from now in this competition make your guess more accurate? No. Waiting six weeks before making a guess does not allow you to more accurately guage when someone will pop the question.

[DrSpike]

Um, it does, because like the chap who walks in after round 10 who knows the fight has not yet ended the person that guesses in a months time knows that the question has not yet been asked!

Come on Skanks, think about it mate.

[Straybow]

Lost cause, perhaps.

[Colonâ„¢]

June 7 Nikolai
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September 1 Zoid
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October 1 Dauphin

Duke o' york: pick another date, yours was already taken.

Dauphin gets the 1st of October, just because.

[Ecthy]

I have a nice 2/5 position.

[Dauphin]

Colon, damn, I wanted to pick a date for Dauphin!

[DrSpike]

Well, if you choose to guess I'm sure Colon can replace the existing 'suggested' guess.

[Dauphin]

Dauphin wouldn't approve of that.

[Dauphin]