DARK SHADOWS FORUMS

Members' Mausoleum => Calendar Events / Announcements Archive => Calendar Events / Announcements '25 I => Calendar Events / Announcements '08 I => Topic started by: Raycheetah on January 02, 2008, 02:20:09 PM

Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 02, 2008, 02:20:09 PM
(Delayed post for 01/01/08)

Happy New Year!

Dark Shadows is now #38!

Less than two weeks to reach #37!

Stats and analysis (including Moonlight, which passed another show, again, yesterday) can be viewed at:

http://tinyurl. com/2gzhfp

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 02, 2008, 03:01:44 PM
Still climbing toward #37!

Just another good voting day, though, now past New Years day, we should see a steady rise in votes.

Stats, projections, and, analysis (including Moonlight, which passed another show, yesterday, and, stands to pass at least SIX more, tomorrow) can be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/27xyjx

Keep voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on January 03, 2008, 01:34:45 AM
Back in town. Just getting through all the Email and group. Thanks for everyone's efforts. Jackie thank you for posting of the Banners. Ray thanks for posting daily. Lydia thanks for chimming in.

But I have a question, is there a take over song for Northern Exposure??

Northern Exposure   65108  +163
Dark Shadows (1966)   62195  +419
Alias   61683 +178

Blood Ties (2006)   19623  +300
 
Moonlight (2007)  3677  +122
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 03, 2008, 02:26:46 AM
One day is all it will take to reach #39! Cleo is about to fall!
Let's all sing, using a well known tune:  "Cleopatra's falling down!"

Oh, that is funny, Lydia!

Got one for Alias? We'll be passing that show in under a week.

But I have a question, is there a take over song for Northern Exposure??

Now, now. As wonderful as it might be that DS is doing so well in the poll, and as inspired as it might have been to possibly sing songs to mark whenever DS leapfrogs other shows, it's probably best not to get cocky. After all, we wouldn't like it if other fandoms rubbed it in our faces as/if they passed by DS, so we should probably remain respectful.  [santa_wink]  Though quietly and inwardly doing somersaults seems perfectly appropriate.  [santa_grin]
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 03, 2008, 03:13:18 PM
Well, I try to maintain a public semblance of respect and dignity, MB... However, if fans of the other shows come here to lurk and spy, well, it has been said that an eavesdropper seldom hears anything good about himself. However, on the off chance that Dark Shadows fans here might also be fans of the shows we're passing, I will attempt to moderate the inevitable good-natured (really!) trash-talk =^[.]~=.

A slow day, yesterday, and, a bit of a disappointment.

Yesterday, everybody else's votes were up, as anticipated... except ours, which dropped. I have NO idea what happened. Still above 400 daily votes (marginally), but, we have been hovering at 11 days away from #37 for three days, now.

Stats and analysis (including Moonlight, which enjoyed a great voting boost, passing SIX shows, yesterday) can be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/328kuu

Let's get back up into the high 400s, folks!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah ='[.]'=
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Nancy on January 03, 2008, 05:43:27 PM
I know you won't believe it's me saying this but - don't get discouraged.  People are still away for the holidays or have taken vacation to recover from the holidays.  I work in a major city and even this week there has been little or no traffic on the streets.  I work in a company with over 500 people in it.  It's still a ghost town, much like the week before Christmas.  You'll get your voters back.

Nancy

A slow day, yesterday, and, a bit of a disappointment.
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 03, 2008, 05:49:01 PM
I know you won't believe it's me saying this but - don't get discouraged.  People are still away for the holidays or have taken vacation to recover from the holidays.  I work in a major city and even this week there has been little or no traffic on the streets.  I work in a company with over 500 people in it.  It's still a ghost town, much like the week before Christmas.  You'll get your voters back.

*Smiles!*

Thanks, Nancy!

-RC =^[.]^=
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on January 03, 2008, 11:48:25 PM
Thanks Nancy and MB for what you have said. I will be silent in my singing. Some people might think I am off key. Here are some numbers.

DS +408

(edited by admin)
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 04, 2008, 03:12:26 PM
Still over 400, but, no real growth.

The Northern Exposure voters sure had some growth! We're still catching up with them, but, our vote advantage slips when we don't increase our votes, and, they do.

Anyway, looks like NX will put up such a fight as they can, but, our passing them within the next 11 days or so is inevitable. Keep in mind that today is Friday, chronically the worst voting day of the week. If we don't want to drop below 400 daily votes, again, we need to push a little harder.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (as well as for Moonlight, which passed two more shows, yesterday) can be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3cxzr7

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 05, 2008, 04:02:05 PM
Under ten days to catch NX!

Our votes dropped to just below 400, yesterday. Still, we've been over 300 votes/day for almost a month, so, we're doing pretty well.

Stats, projections, and, analysis (including Moonlight, which passed another show, yesterday) can be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2y4hbx

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 06, 2008, 03:22:51 PM
Just over a week to pass NX!

Back over 400 votes, again, yesterday, we did well against NX, whose votes dropped. We still need to get our votes into a more solid position, well into the 400+ range. We have a year. We need to make each day count, in order to maximize our position!

Stats, analysis, and projections (Including Moonlight, which passed another show, yesterday, though, without a boost in votes, it may not pass any, tomorrow) can be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2q66z9

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 07, 2008, 03:26:39 PM
I hope nobody's ill, because we dropped a LOT of votes, yesterday, almost 40!

We're still doing alright, but, these vote levels are worrisome!

Analysis and projections (including Moonlight, which didn't pass any shows, yesterday) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/27bo3k

Keep voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on January 07, 2008, 06:03:41 PM
This isn't a banner congratulating DS per se, but in celebrating Fan Power, a scene from DS is added to 1/5/2008 banner.  For some reason I've been unsuccessful in showing the banners on this forum [although I can see it when I preview my message] so I'm adding the link for others to see.  It is not the original banner since I don't have the means to copy an *.swf file but I captured the main shots to make this animated file.

 [snow_bigglass]  [snow_smiley]

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/ds_banner080105.gif)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/ds_banner080105.gif (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/ds_banner080105.gif)
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 07, 2008, 06:32:25 PM
For some reason I've been unsuccessful in showing the banners on this forum [although I can see it when I preview my message] so I'm adding the link for others to see.

Strange - all the banners that you've posted have displayed fine for me in their posts. And I just checked back at all of them - and they're still displaying fine.  [hdscrt]
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Midnite on January 07, 2008, 06:52:35 PM
a scene from DS is added to 1/5/2008 banner.
And a shot of Kate Jackson from Scarecrow and Mrs. King.   [snow_smiley]
Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on January 08, 2008, 05:08:12 AM
Numbers dropped a little. Thanks for the Banner Jackie. If we do over 400+ for 2 Days we will have a banner in 2 more days. Thanks
for everyone that is voting, your efforts a appreciated.

Northern Exposure   65894 +132
Dark Shadows (1966)   64189 +370
Alias   62365 +152

Blood Ties (2006)   21235 +273

Moonlight (2007)   4280 +115

Will be away a little on Tuesday, a vote or two would be great.

Title: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 08, 2008, 03:12:43 PM
Paul Revere could have used a Samuel Adams, last night.

Went on another exhausting ride through the Firefly/Buffy/Angel/Johnny Depp groups, last night. Got a bit of an initial response; several Browncoats enthusiastically committed to help out (such shiny folks, we are!), and, even one, stray voter for Surface in the Noms (might drop in a Surface Nom or two, every once in a while; he's stirring up his home board to help us).

We got a boost of 45 votes over the previous day, and, should get our next banner, tomorrow.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which didn't pass any shows, yesterday, but, whose drought should end tomorrow) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/yuz855

Keep voting, folks!

Yours in the cause!

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 09, 2008, 08:39:27 AM
Important news from TV Vote:

"Greetings TV_Voters:

TV_Vote is moving to a new address. On this coming Sunday morning, January 13th, we will activate our new site at http://www.tvvote.tv for a trial run.

If all goes well, we will stay there until January 2009, when we will decide whether to continue for another year or end the vote.

If there is a problem with the new site, we will revert back to the old address, but we don't expect any problems because there haven't been any changes to the way things actually work. We have made an attempt to clean up the look a bit, but no changes to the poll forms. http://www.tvvote.tv is on a different server with a different web host, but we think that it will actually make the site work better.

When you come to the current site on Sunday January 13th, all you will see is a page with a link to http://www.tvvote.tv and we will keep that page link up indefinitely in the future. You can also use the alternate address http://tvvote.tv starting Sunday if you prefer (it's shorter.)

WHY, WHY, WHY?

The current TV_Vote site is actually a subweb of www.richlabonte.net, but it accounts for over 70% of all the traffic on richlabonte.net. We thought it deserved a stand-alone site and URL so a year ago we reserved tvvote.tv. (We couldn't get tvvote.com because COMCAST is sitting on it - they don't use it, but they got it first and they're too big to fight for it.)

Then we waited a year to see if you guys would still be here. You are, so TV_Vote gets the new URL tvvote.tv as of Sunday.

Our new web host for http://www.tvvote.tv also offers a couple of features we will try out - they have a board / forum thingie and also a little poll deal that we could use to bring back our Instant Polls. Plus we get a whole lot of extra space to work with on their server - enough to put up a picture gallery / library of our Flash banners or even stream classic TV episodes maybe, who knows?

Our commitment to another year of TV_Vote gives you a chance to fill that fifth position in the Fan Power Hall of Fame after Gunsmoke takes number 4 (in about a month, we reckon.) It will also give Nomination Poll voters a better chance to make the Top 40.

So Don't Panic on Sunday and remember:

Fan Power Rules!
:o)>FLAtRich"
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 09, 2008, 03:09:15 PM
A marked improvement, and, a new banner!

Dark Shadows got 434 votes, yesterday, bring us within 90 votes of our all-time record, 524 votes. Just a little over 4 days to catch NX.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (except Moonlight, which, despite winning a People's Choice Award, last night, didn't get a vote update, but, was projected to pass two more shows) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/35yny2

Keep voting! We're making tremendous progress!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on January 09, 2008, 06:00:01 PM
The Banner is HAA and Petofi's hand. Rich probobly liked the picture. Thanks for everyone's help.

Northern Exposure   66218 +151
Dark Shadows (1966)   65038 +434
Alias   62718 +179

Blood Ties (2006)   21912  +318

Moonlight (2007)   4501 +107
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 10, 2008, 02:54:09 PM
Closing in on #37! We need to keep our votes up, though; Dark Shadows only got 407 votes, yesterday.

Stats, analysis, and, Projections (including People's Choice Award winner Moonlight, which will pass obscure show "Trailer Park Boys" in two days) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/yr9uma

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on January 10, 2008, 04:43:13 PM
Let's hear it for the vampires. Will be taking over NX soon.  Coming close to our
first month in the Top 40,  Have done 10, 000 votes, that is even with the
holidays. Thanks All.

Northern Exposure   66393 +175
Dark Shadows (1966)   65445 +407
Alias   62891 +173

Blood Ties (2006)   22207 +295

Moonlight (2007)   4600 +99


Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 11, 2008, 03:33:03 PM
#37 by Monday! At the rate we're going, we'll overtake NX in less than three days!

Statistics, analysis, and, projections (for Moonlight, as well, which didn't pass any shows, today, but will pass "Trailer Park Boys," tomorrow) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/26cukt

Keep voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on January 12, 2008, 07:28:43 AM
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/ruswilinc/2008-01-09SharedBanner.gif)

Here is the banner. Had to update it.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 12, 2008, 03:15:26 PM
Thanks for posting the banner, Lori!

Looks like Monday for our rise to #37!

Dark Shadows got great votes for a Friday! Good job, everyone!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which finally passed "Trailer Park Boys!") may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2pomga

Keep on voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Julianka7 on January 13, 2008, 06:57:14 AM
Congratulations to all the people voting in the poll! [snow_bigglass]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 13, 2008, 03:11:49 PM
Thank you kindly, Julianka7!

Tomorrow's the day!

Dark Shadows will reach #37 tomorrow!

There was a lot of voter drop-off, yesterday, some pretty severe (Firefly lost 132 votes from the previous day!), but, with the help of our friends, we kept our votes above 400, yesterday!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which still needs another couple of days to pass Nip/Tuck) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/34qxke

Keep up the great work, everyone!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: New Voting page address. Please save. Thanks.
Post by: loril54 on January 13, 2008, 07:55:52 PM
A new link for voting very important for you to save.

http://www.tvvote.tv/index.html
Vote for DS using one of these link
To nominate other shows of your choice
 By going to the link on the banner on far left.
http://tvvote.tv/nominations.html
A good link for the nominations if anyone is doing it.

Northern Exposure   66885 +160
Dark Shadows (1966)    66701 +418

Blood Ties (2006)    23062 +220

Moonlight (2007)    4924 +96
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 14, 2008, 03:08:28 PM
Dark Shadows advances to #37!

Not much more to say than that, except we only need about a week to pass Scarecrow and Mrs. King.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which didn't pass any more shows, yesterday, but, will pass Nip/Tuck, tomorrow) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2bytm2

Keep voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 15, 2008, 06:20:06 AM
Interesting to reflect that, less than a month after Dark Shadows passed Hercules, it has since passed Cleopatra 2525, Alias, and, Northern Exposure, and, stands poised to pass Scarecrow and Mrs. King in another week, and, The Simpsons by the end of the calendar month.

Your faithful Tallymister will be taking the missus to the doctor, early tomorrow morning, so, daily voting stats will not be posted until later in the day. I'll get on them as soon as we get back, but, rest assured, I'll have them for you, as always, at:

http://tinyurl.com/2368e2

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 15, 2008, 07:41:13 PM
Moving on up in the Top 40! Scarecrow voters boosted their daily votes, a bit, but then, so did we!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which got a record 125 votes, and, passed Nip/Tuck, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2szdas

Keep voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 16, 2008, 02:12:45 PM
By the way, I input incorrect data for Moonlight's votes, yesterday (I came home tired!)

Here are the MUCH more impressive numbers:

Moonlight got 164 (125) votes, Monday, passing Nip/Tuck 5,111.

-RC =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 16, 2008, 03:08:46 PM
Great Numbers for Dark Shadows!

We got 446 votes, yesterday, a significant increase! Dark Shadows was the 7th highest-scoring show yesterday; we beat Xena's daily vote total of 441!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which passed Heroes, yesterday) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/yvca5o

Yours in the cause.

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on January 16, 2008, 11:18:43 PM
How many people are going to realize how important
DS is.  I hope people take notice of our strength.


Scarecrow and Mrs. King   69198 +153
Dark Shadows (1966)   67988 +446

Blood Ties (2006)   23807 +253


Moonlight (2007)   5359 +151


Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 19, 2008, 03:22:57 PM
(Sorry not to have posted, the last couple of days; I couldn't get into the Forums.)

A great total for a Friday!

Even with the voting issues, yesterday, Dark Shadows got 441 votes! Only 1.42 days to beat Scarecrow!

This could be attributed to two things:

1) Most of the voting problems are being experienced by voters in Europe; this may simply reflect that the majority of our voters are in the US and Canada, or,

2) With the sudden boost in Nominations votes for Moonlight (172, yesterday!), we may be receiving some support from Moonlight fans, which is much appreciated!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which passed another show, yesterday, along with garnering that new, record daily vote total!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3bmoj4

Keep voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 19, 2008, 03:40:20 PM
(Sorry not to have posted, the last couple of days; I couldn't get into the Forums.)

The forum was offline due to our hosting account switch:
... starting tonight at 10pm ET / 7pm PT the forum will be put into Maintenance Mode and the process to switch to our new host will begin. ...
  [snow_smiley]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on January 20, 2008, 01:04:17 AM
Information form TV Vote. Go back to old site.

Hi, guys:

Still no solution from the tvvote.tv host, so we are prepared for the
return to our old location at http://www.richlabonte.net/tvvote

Plan on voting there tomorrow, Sunday January 19th. The site should be
active again early in the morning, hopefully by 7 AM EST, so go there
first after you open yer sleepy little peepers. The site is currently
updated (but not receiving votes), so it should go up around the world
pretty fast.

The site design changes we made for .tv have been transfered to the
old site, BTW, except for the streaming classic commercials. We may
bring them back in the future too.


:o)>FLAtRich
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Lydia on January 20, 2008, 09:24:55 AM
Still no solution from the tvvote.tv host, so we are prepared for the return to our old location at http://www.richlabonte.net/tvvote
Was there a problem?  (asks Lydia cluelessly, channeling her beloved role model, Victoria Winters).  I'm having no trouble with http://www.tvvote.tv.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 20, 2008, 03:01:40 PM
Sorry, Lydia, to be more specific, apparently it was the European voters who have been having the problem. If you vote from pretty much anywhere else, you wouldn't have likely noticed the problem.

As of today, Sunday, January 20th, we are back up and running at:

http://richlabonte.net/tvvote

http://www.richlabonte.net/tvvote

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

ALL three links work for voting, so if you have trouble getting into the site in heavy traffic you can try an alternate address instead. I recommend bookmarking them all, for rapid transition, if you have trouble voting.

Despite the shortfalls, Dark Shadows is poised to take #36, tomorrow, along with another banner!

We also /barely/ kept our daily vote total above 400, at 402, yesterday... Now that we're back on the original voting site, things should be looking up in the next day or so.

Apologies to anybody who stayed up/got up to nab that extra vote at the changeover; if you got it in, you did better than I did, 'cause Rich snuck the switch in even earlier than I expected. I think he sleeps less than I do!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which didn't pass any more shows, yesterday) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/yosmau

Keep on voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 21, 2008, 04:09:11 PM
Dark Shadows is #36!

And, we got our banner!

Time to give Bart Simpson a spanking!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which passed another show, yesterday, and, is now visible at the bottom of the first page of the Noms totals!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2cpjdc

Good work, everybody!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on January 22, 2008, 04:24:41 AM
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/ruswilinc/2008-01-21SharedBanner.gif)

Here is the banner. If you want to take off the previous post that is ok
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 22, 2008, 03:13:56 PM
Thanks for posting the banner, Lori!

A great boost in votes!

Dark Shadows received 451 votes, yesterday, and, is only 4.76 days from catching The Simpsons!

Stats, analysis, and, projections, (including Moonlight, which didn't pass any shows, but, which got a record 213 votes, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2e73g9

We're doing fantastically! Congratulations on the great work!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 23, 2008, 02:48:59 PM
Bart isn't sitting still for his spanking, not when The Simpsons got 211 votes, and, Dark Shadows got 425.

We actually lost lead time to take #35, yesterday. Hopefully, today, we'll do as well as we did the day before, when we pulled in 451 votes.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which passed another show, and, got a record 239 votes, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=460&gopid=4781246&#entry4781246

Keep voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 24, 2008, 02:58:12 PM
Getting closer to #35 with every stroke... Er, vote!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which passed no shows, but, got another record, 280 votes, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/ypf7v4

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 25, 2008, 03:00:21 PM
Today on TV Vote, we got steady Gains!

Dark Shadows is a little over two days from #35. Expect us to be chasing #34 by Monday.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which, with another record voting day of 288, passed another show, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2e24ch

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 26, 2008, 03:07:33 PM
Nearly there!

And, there's nothing that post-modern Dennis the Menace wannabe Bart Simpson can do about it!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which passed another show, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2brz6j

Keep up the great work!

Yours in the cause.

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 27, 2008, 03:00:44 PM
#35, tomorrow, as we pass The Simpsons to take on #34!

Most shows took a pretty hard hit (except, interestingly enough, Bonanza, which was the only show to enjoy a substantial /gain/ in daily votes) yesterday.

Dark Shadows was able to minimize the damage, staying well above 400 votes; excellent job, voters! What a demonstration of dedication and Fan Power!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which passed another show, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/yqj67o

Keep up the great work!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 28, 2008, 03:07:31 PM
Dark Shadows is the #35 show!

But, we lost a lot of steam, yesterday, dropping 47 votes off the previous day's vote total, which was already depressed.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which passed THREE shows, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/yv3448

Keep voting! We need to get back well above 400 daily votes, again!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 29, 2008, 04:42:55 PM
Back up to speed, at 424 votes, yesterday!

Our time to overtake QAF stands at about 3 weeks, based on yesterday's voting.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which got a record 304 votes, as well as passing another show, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3ab4uh

Great work!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 30, 2008, 02:46:56 PM
We stalled out, a bit, when our votes dropped to 411, yesterday. We are still at almost 22 days from catching QAF, at this point, no improvement over the previous day.

We need to do our best to keep our daily vote totals well above 400!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which passed another show, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/29xz59

We're moving up the Top 40 Poll! Let's keep up the great work!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=

P.S.: For anyone interested, I've started a Blood Ties discussion thread on Skiffy:

http://tinyurl.com/33z3vh

...In case anyone is curious about the show, or, wants a permanent link to view the episodes online.

-RC =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on January 30, 2008, 06:56:14 PM
I just wanted to say that our numbers have dropped off a little over the last couple
days.  We can make up some ground on Queer as Folk.   

JAG   81463 +169
Queer as Folk   81323 +76
Dark Shadows (1966)   73972  +411

We should get another banner in 3 days.

Thanks for everyone's efforts.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on January 31, 2008, 03:16:53 PM
We fell off, a bit, in our vote totals, yesterday. I know some folks had things that prevented them from voting, so, nobody needs to feel badly. We just need to buck up and get our daily average back to where a shortfall isn't going to drop us below 400 votes, which should really be our baseline.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which didn't pass any shows, yesterday) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/36qxlj

So, let's keep pressing on!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 01, 2008, 03:12:11 PM
Much better!

We got our mojo back, apparently with a little help from our friends.

Dark Shadows was WAY up, with 432 daily votes, yesterday. This trend matched a jump in Buffy/Angel votes, which followed my posting the stats for those shows on a range of related groups and boards, including a new (to me) forum for all Joss Whedon shows. The only problem with the Buffyverse voters is, they have a history of enthusiastic initial responses to news about their shows, only to fade off, again. I'm hoping that this new forum, as opposed to Yahoo Groups, will enable me to sustain their interest, more.

At any rate, we're no longer stuck at 21 days from catching QAF, as we seem to have been, all week. Dark Shadows is now just a little over 18 days away from #34.

Statistics, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which is two days from passing Bleak House) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/38wyvx

Great work, everyone!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 02, 2008, 03:20:01 PM
Still over 400. Not bad for a Friday.

Just a little over 18 days to take QAF.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which still needs about 2 days to pass Bleak House) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/32xaee

The weekends are slow for voting, so, let's see if we can overcome that handicap, and, take advantage of QAF's potential slowdown!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 02, 2008, 04:13:14 PM
Oh, did I mention..?

Dark Shadows got another banner, today, too, for 75,000 votes!

-RC =^[.]^=

Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on February 02, 2008, 07:33:09 PM
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/ruswilinc/2008-02-02SharedBanner.gif)

Here is the Banner.  Be sure to keep voting.  Thanks again.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 03, 2008, 03:02:45 PM
Be glad we got our banner, yesterday, because, Gunsmoke entered the Hall of Fame, today, which pre-empted EVERYONE'S banner!

Dark Shadows votes were up over Friday's, which is great! We're still making headway!

Stats, analysis, projections, and, the usual exhortations (along with Moonlight, which will finally pass another show, tomorrow) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2jb6hk

Let's keep going!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 04, 2008, 03:11:28 PM
We fell short of 400 votes, again, yesterday, only getting 395.

But, the weekend is behind us, so, we should be getting back up in scores, again!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Moonlight, which got 266 votes, yesterday, passing Bleak House to enter the Top 20 Nominations!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3296up

Let's get back into the high 400's!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 05, 2008, 03:21:18 PM
Much better!

Dark Shadows got 440 votes, yesterday! We shaved 3 whole days off of the time it will take to catch QAF, at this rate, with just one day's improvement. Every vote does count!

Stats, analysis, the usual (including Moonlight, which passed no shows, yesterday, but, topped 10,000 total votes) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/37gug3

Nicely done! Let's keep up the pace!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 06, 2008, 02:08:34 PM
Another good day, as Dark Shadows continues to whittle away at QAF's lead.

Stats, analysis, corn futures... (and, Moonlight, which passed no shows, yesterday, being about 2 days from passing Maverick and The Pretender) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/32ae3b

Keep it up!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 07, 2008, 03:19:48 PM
Moving right along, Dark Shadows had another solid voting day, yesterday.

I would also like to share some news on one of our friendly voting fandoms:

Buffy is in pursuit of the 6th Hall of Fame slot, and, is 66,933 votes, and, 122.59 days, away, while Farscape is only 125.58 days from getting there, first. Buffy is in the lead for the Hall of Fame!

So, if you care to advance another vampire show whose voters support us, please, click Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well, when you vote!

Stats, analysis, and, all that goes with (including Moonlight, set to pass at least two shows, tomorrow!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3a7xg7

Let's keep it together!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 08, 2008, 03:21:54 PM
A slower day than we might've liked, but, still over 400 votes, yesterday.

Stats, sporting goods, and sundries (including Moonlight, which passed Maverick yesterday, to become the #19 Nominee show) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/yq9ww7

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 09, 2008, 03:21:10 PM
Still above 400 on a Friday!

It looks like we might be able to sustain that, without any drops below 400, through the weekend.

Stats, yaddah, yaddah... (And, Moonlight, which passed 3 more shows to become the #16 Nominee show, yesterday!) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3bd7lk

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 10, 2008, 03:16:02 PM
Not the best of voting days, yesterday.

Dark Shadows dropped to 384 daily votes, another, consecutive drop in votes, losing 26 votes from the previous day.

We're still on track, but, I'll be glad when the weekend doldrums are behind us.

Stats, actuarial tables, and, china patterns (including Moonlight, two days away from passing another show) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/35gs2l

We can do better, so, let's get on it!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on February 11, 2008, 02:21:59 AM
We had our numbers drop a little. Please be aware
that we will be getting another banner this week.  I
sure hope that it is a single one. Thanks for everyones
help. Ray thanks for posting the link every day.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 11, 2008, 03:22:33 PM
Just over 400 votes, yesterday, 1 vote over, in fact.

Better than we had been doing, not as good as we might like. Today is the start of a new week, so, let's see where it takes us.

Stats, Phys Ed, and, Home Economics (and, Moonlight, one day away from passing another show) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2ztvml

Let's not keep JAG waiting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 12, 2008, 03:33:35 PM
Today, you get it direct, because Skiffy has "lost" my account, and, I'll be jiggered if I'm gonna re-register before they try to fix their mistake, first.

If anybody who gets this is registered on SciFi.com, and, can still get in, I would consider it a great kindness if you would post the following for me on the Dark Shadows voting thread: ... (edited by mod)

See:  http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?s=ecab4552772cdf93b02038ca3fece822&showtopic=2285353&view=findpost&p=4867635
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 13, 2008, 03:14:54 PM
See:  http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=2285353&view=findpost&p=4871193

(edited by admin)
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 14, 2008, 03:58:52 PM
Today's stats, and, welcome to another friendly fan(g)dom!

We did much better, yesterday, and, are on track to pass QAF in about 6 days.

We have also added another fan(g)dom to our circle of friends!

Let's all extend a friendly, Collinwood welcome to the Nominations voters of Blood Ties! Blood Ties is a current vampire program, whose fandom is struggling, after only 22 episodes, to get their show renewed (sound familiar?). Judge for yourself how good it is by viewing it for free online (use the "Select an episode" drop-down menu to see different eps) at:

http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/shows/blood-ties/episodes/blood-price-part-1

The Blood Ties voters are now joining ranks with us, extending their Top 40 votes to the shows in our family of friends. While it may take a while for the results to show in the daily totals, Blood Ties got a total of 511 votes, yesterday, so, the potentials of their generosity are substantial.

As always (well, again, now that I am using my wife's account on SciFi.com to post), stats, analysis, etc. may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/2vvr6q

Thanks for all the support!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=

P.S.: Thanks, Midnite, for posting on Skiffy for me, yesterday. I had to stop and think, a moment, before I realized who had helped me out!

-RC =^[.]^=-
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on February 14, 2008, 05:45:54 PM
come by and check out the vote page we got a Banner. It is Willie and Barnabas.
A very famous show when Barnabas sends Willie out to get dinner.  [snow_cheesy]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 15, 2008, 03:51:12 PM
Holding steady!

Yesterday, Dark Shadows dropped a single vote, from the previous day's totals. We're still on track to take the #34 position in just over 5 days.

Stats, analysis, and projections (including Moonlight, which is set to pass The West Wing, tomorrow, and, Blood Ties, which is moving up in the Nominations, as well) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/26l5pw

Let's all keep up the pace!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 16, 2008, 03:51:58 PM
Another good day...

Dark Shadows stayed above 400 daily votes, while QAF dropped, substantially. Currently, we are less than 4 days from taking the #34 spot in the Poll.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Blood Ties, and, Moonlight, which passed another show, yesterday, in the Nominations Poll) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/35lrkf

Thanks for your support!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on February 16, 2008, 06:45:45 PM
Here is the Banner, Thanks Jackie for putting it together.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/dsbanner80000.gif)
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 17, 2008, 03:57:05 PM
Thanks for posting the banner, Lori!

Yesterday was not a good day for anyone, on TV Vote, as daily vote totals dropped across the board.

Tomorrow, however, is always another day.

Stats, projections, deductions, convections, etc. (including Blood Ties and Moonlight) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4887404&#entry4887404

Thanks for all your ongoing support!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 18, 2008, 03:59:31 PM
An improvement of yesterday's totals!

Dark Shadows was back up over 400 daily votes.

Stats, analysis, and, the whole nine yards (including Blood Ties and Moonlight in the Nominations Poll) may, as always, be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4890947&#entry4890947

Thanks for the ongoing support!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on February 18, 2008, 04:09:04 PM
For some reason I've been unsuccessful in showing the banners on this forum [although I can see it when I preview my message] so I'm adding the link for others to see.

Strange - all the banners that you've posted have displayed fine for me in their posts. And I just checked back at all of them - and they're still displaying fine.  [hdscrt]

After just logging in and checking this thread, I noticed Lori's banners showing up.  Then I read your message [been gone for a while].  I don't know why I couldn't see the banners I was posting but I can see Lori's.  I see the one I posted in January so I wonder what my computer is doing wrong for me not to have seen them for so long.  Oh well, I'll try again when we get another one, if Lori doesn't beat me to it.  [snow_blush]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 19, 2008, 03:28:09 PM
Great to see you back, here, Jackie!

We had a great recovery on TV Vote yesterday; if we do as well, again, today, tomorrow, Dark Shadows will be the #34 show!

Stats and other pertinent data (including Blood Ties and Moonlight) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4894707&#entry4894707

Great work, everyone!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on February 19, 2008, 10:40:36 PM
After just logging in and checking this thread, I noticed Lori's banners showing up.  Then I read your message [been gone for a while].  I don't know why I couldn't see the banners I was posting but I can see Lori's.  I see the one I posted in January so I wonder what my computer is doing wrong for me not to have seen them for so long.  Oh well, I'll try again when we get another one, if Lori doesn't beat me to it.  [snow_blush]

I'll take the pictures, I just need someone to put them together. Jackie I know you can help with this.
The only thing that I can think is if you took them out photobucket.  If the link no longer exsist, or maybe if you have made your pictures private.

Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 20, 2008, 03:28:38 PM
Not quite there, today... #34, tomorrow!

Dark Shadows stalks up the ranks, and, stands poised to ZAP another victim!

Statistical analysis (including Nominee shows Blood Ties and Moonlight) may be viewed, as always, at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4897921&#entry4897921

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 21, 2008, 03:40:49 PM
Dark Shadows advances to #34!

Stats, analysis, projections, and, more (including Nominee shows Blood Ties and Moonlight) may, as always, be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4902237&#entry4902237

Great job, all!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 22, 2008, 03:44:51 PM
Dark Shadows daily votes continue to rise!

Statistics and projections (including Nominee shows Blood Ties and Moonlight) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4906331&#entry4906331

About a week to #33! Let's keep it up!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 23, 2008, 03:42:56 PM
Most shows took the usual Friday drop, reflected in their daily vote totals. We can recover from this with just a little effort, especially if we all work together. Yet, even despite some voting problems, Dark Shadows stayed well into the 400s. Again, I want to thank our friends, especially the Blood Ties Nominations voters, for their assistance, and, hope that the Dark Shadows voters will reciprocate in kind.

Stats and analysis (including nominee shows Blood Ties and Moonlight) May be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4910185&#entry4910185

Less than a week to #33! Let's push on!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 24, 2008, 04:01:31 PM
Saturday: The new, voting Friday?

Yesterday was like a stock market crash, on TV Vote. Even Jericho didn't break 500 daily votes, yesterday, and, with a few exceptions, daily totals were abysmal across the board. Hopefully, whatever was at fault will have leveled out, and, we'll see some decent totals, tomorrow. While it wasn't us, falling below 800 votes for Firefly is not a good trend. On the other hand, Dark Shadows actually advanced its totals, taking advantage of JAG's falloff to move even closer to taking its position.

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including Nominee shows Blood Ties and Moonlight) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4913469&#entry4913469

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 25, 2008, 03:37:43 PM
We weathered the storm!

We got through one of the worst weekends in voting history with our daily totals well above 400!

Stats and other facts and figures (including Nominee shows Blood Ties and Moonlight) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4916468&#entry4916468

Great work! Let's keep it up!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on February 25, 2008, 06:52:02 PM
We have our 85,000 banner.  The picture is from the earlier storyline of Maggie kidnapped by Barnabas!

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/dsbanner85000.gif)
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 26, 2008, 04:15:05 PM
Thanks for posting the banner, Jackie!

Nice to see we got another banner, both Firefly and Dark Shadows! We also saw a MUCH improved voting day, yesterday; based on the shows affected, it appears certain that our new friends, the Blood Ties Nominations voters, are making a strong contribution! Please return them their kindness, if you have the Nominations votes to spare.

Stats and other fun facts 'n' figures (including Nominee vampire shows Blood Ties and Moonlight) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4920082&#entry4920082

What a fantastic rise in our daily votes! Let's keep it up, and, support those who help us!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 27, 2008, 03:18:30 PM
Another, great daily total, 486 votes for Dark Shadows, yesterday!

Stats and other good news (including Nominee shows Blood Ties and Moonlight) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=540&gopid=4924152&#entry4924152

Let's keep on pushing upwards!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 28, 2008, 03:59:04 PM
Dark Shadows will ascend to become the #33 show, tomorrow!

Stats, analysis, and, projections (including the usual nominees) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=560

We've come a long way in two and a half months since entering the Top 40!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on February 29, 2008, 03:55:51 PM
Dark Shadows is the NEW #33 Show!

Stats, analysis, tea leaf and crystal ball readings (including the other shows whose voters contribute to our success) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=560&gopid=4932363&#entry4932363

Onward and upward!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 01, 2008, 03:58:53 PM
Despite a massive drop in votes, Dark Shadows stayed well above 400 daily votes, yesterday.

Stats, oracles, omens, and, prognostications (including for shows whose voters also support Dark Shadows) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=560&gopid=4936358&#entry4936358

My wife and I'll be going on vacation, next week, and, taking our +/-20 votes/day with us. If you could, please do your best to keep the vote up, the two weeks we'll be gone. We should be able to pass Star Trek: DS9 and NCIS, both, during that time.

Thanks!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 02, 2008, 04:20:31 PM
Keeping our heads above water, despite another bad voting day.

Remember how the daily vote totals sucked, last Saturday? Well, it looks like we had a repeat of that "stock market plunge." Saturday does, indeed, appear to be the new Friday, with depressed totals pretty much across the board, most substantially impacting normally high-scoring shows. I still don't know why that might be, for sure; I did note some reports of trouble voting. Just keep in mind that yesterday's drop should be considered anomalous, and, not indicative of long-term trends, and, we can hope for better things, tomorrow.

Despite all that, Dark Shadows still stayed above 400 daily votes! Great job, everyone!

Stats, notes, and, exhortations (including associated shows) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=560&gopid=4939649&#entry4939649

Let's keep it above 400 daily votes, again, today!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 04, 2008, 03:50:00 PM
(Sorry I didn't post, yesterday; technical problems got in the way. Yesterday's numbers are still available to view at the link, below.)

Wonderful numbers for Dark Shadows and all the rest of the shows in our voting family! Everyone did very well, yesterday, and, it looks like DS will get its banner before I leave on vacation, Saturday!

Stats (including other shows in our voting cooperative) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=560&gopid=4945919&#entry4945919

Thanks to everyone for your support!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=

Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 05, 2008, 03:54:16 PM
A slight slump in daily votes for Dark Shadows, but, we kept it well above 400!

Stats, hints, and cryptic clues (including associated voting shows, such as Blood Ties, which has just taken the #42 spot, now facing Hercules, which Dark Shadows passed last December) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=560&gopid=4949293&#entry4949293

Let's keep up the momentum!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 06, 2008, 04:24:36 PM
Dark Shadows is right on track to pass DS9 this month!

Stats 'n' such may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=560&gopid=4953287&#entry4953287

Let's keep it up!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 07, 2008, 03:48:06 PM
Aloha, Dark Shadows fans!

Tomorrow, the missus and I are leaving for a vacation on a small border moon called Hawai'i. We'll be gone for about 16 days, with no expectation of cortex access. So, not only will I be unable to vote, I also won't be posting stats, for that period. The day I get back, or, just possibly, the day after, I'll resume posting.

Meanwhile, we still have goals to reach, standards (400+/day!) to maintain, and, friends to support. I want to come back to see a lot accomplished, okay?

I'm really sorry to miss the coupla banners I expect we'll collect, as well as Dark Shadows passing DS9, and, mebbe, NCIS. But, you can do it, and, I don't even have to be here to know you will!

Stats and such may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=560&gopid=4957358&#entry4957358

Seeyas 'round! A hui hou!

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on March 08, 2008, 06:18:05 PM
Have a wonderful time in Hawaii Ray.  And oh yes, we got our 90,000 banner. [snow_smiley]

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/dsbanner90000.gif)
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 08, 2008, 11:56:44 PM
We had a banner thanks all for your efforts.
Try to vote as much as possible some of our
voters are away for awhile. Pass the link around.

Dark Shadows (1966)   90310 +430

Blood Ties (2006)   46471 +473

Moonlight (2007)   18766 +308

Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 10, 2008, 04:44:00 PM
Numbers went down on Sunday. Lets try to do better
today. Thanks all


Dark Shadows (1966)   91097 +371

Blood Ties (2006)   47184 +348

Moonlight (2007)   19290 +251

Don't tell Barnabas, Ray is having fun in the sun.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 12, 2008, 04:31:05 AM
Some of our voters are away. Could use any help
you can give. Take Care, All.

Dark Shadows (1966)     91465 +368

Blood Ties (2006)       47635 +451

Moonlight (2007)        19596 +306
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 12, 2008, 05:14:54 PM
Did better. All the vamp shows are doing better.
Pass the link around. Thanks all.

Dark Shadows (1966)     91850 +385

Blood Ties (2006)       48136 +501

Moonlight (2007)        19944 +348

Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 13, 2008, 10:36:43 PM
Did so much better, thanks all. Keep voting and
showing how strong we are. Over 400 again.


Dark Shadows (1966)     92265 +415

Blood Ties (2006)       48606  +530

Moonlight (2007)        20287 +343
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 14, 2008, 04:50:27 PM
Still working together as a team. Make sure to
vote as much as possible, thanks for you continual
efforts. Pass around the links.

Dark Shadows (1966)     92673 +408

Blood Ties (2006)       49045 +439

Moonlight (2007)        20649 +362

Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 15, 2008, 07:20:21 PM
We had a weekend drop, try to vote as much as possible.
We are sill getting more votes than out future competitors.

Dark Shadows (1966)     93033 +360

Blood Ties (2006)       49510 +465

Moonlight (2007)        20991  +342
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 16, 2008, 09:28:33 PM
Everyone had a big drop. I hope that everyone is OK.
I know there was a lot of storms yesterday. Thanks
for everyones efforts.


Dark Shadows (1966)     93375 +342

Blood Ties (2006)       49881 +371

Moonlight (2007)        21279 +288
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 17, 2008, 08:11:00 PM
Did better thanks all. Now the weekend is over.
I hope you are having a good Monday.

Dark Shadows (1966)     93739 +364

Blood Ties (2006)       50252 +371

Moonlight (2007)        21573 +294
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 18, 2008, 11:03:30 PM
I wanted to thank all our friends that are working
together. Firefly, BSG, and Moonlight. Thanks for
your patients, been busy today. Our numbers are better.

Dark Shadows (1966)     94116 +377

Blood Ties (2006)       50695 +443

Moonlight (2007)        21916 +343
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 19, 2008, 09:14:12 PM
Another banner in two days. Over 400 thanks all for your support.

Dark Shadows (1966)     94519  +403

Blood Ties (2006)       51127 +432

Moonlight (2007)        22275 +359
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 20, 2008, 02:53:42 PM
I hope that any friends in the flooding areas are O.K.
Let's give them our thoughts. Let's keep supporting all
our friends. :) Some number up some down.  A new banner
on Friday morning.

Dark Shadows (1966)     94911 +392

Blood Ties (2006)       51566 +439

Moonlight (2007)        22629 +354

Love the bunnies. It gave me a great laugh. It is the first day of spring. Thenks.
Watch out for the evil Bunnies. Were they sent by Nicholas?  [easter_evil]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 21, 2008, 06:44:18 PM
Kate Jackson the star of the Banner. But when did Kate wear a green dress.
I thought her dress was always the red one when she was a ghost.
The picture looks like it came from 1970, look at Barnabas'  tie. Help me out,
 and keep voting. Thank you all.

Dark Shadows (1966)     95293 +382

Scarecrow and Mrs. King 80026 +163

Blood Ties (2006)       51962  +396

Moonlight (2007)        22997 +368
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on March 21, 2008, 08:01:05 PM
But when did Kate wear a green dress. I thought her dress was always the red one when she was a ghost. The picture looks like it came from 1970, look at Barnabas'

Ep #1107 was a point in the 1970 storyline when Daphne was alive.  [easter_wink]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 22, 2008, 10:15:55 AM
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/dsbanner95000.gif)

Thanks Jackie
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 22, 2008, 06:42:07 PM
We did a little bit better. Just so you know, no stats
on Sunday. Double day on Monday.  Let's support all
out friends. I hope that every one has a good Easter
with family and friends.


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

Dark Shadows (1966)     95681 +387

Blood Ties (2006)       52304 +342

Moonlight (2007)        23369 +372
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on March 24, 2008, 11:15:22 PM
Two days worth of totals. We are fanging in there with the
other vamp shows. DS getting close to the 32nd place.

Dark Shadows (1966)     96394 +713

Blood Ties (2006)       52939 +635

Moonlight (2007)        23983 +614
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 25, 2008, 03:16:28 PM
Aloha kakahiaka! Good morning!

Well, I'm back from my vacation, just in time to see Dark Shadows pass at least a couple of shows in fairly quick succession, this coming week.

Projections, statistics, and, analysis, including shows whose voters also support Dark Shadows, may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=600&gopid=5019911&#entry5019911

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 26, 2008, 04:22:41 PM
The Easter doldrums appear to be ending... Dark Shadows is still below the 400 daily votes mark, but, improving.

Stats, sybils, and, oracles (including shows whose fandoms also support DS) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=620

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 27, 2008, 02:59:52 PM
Dark Shadows is back up over 400 daily votes, again!

Stats, reflections, cognitions (including the shows whose voters support DS) may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=620&gopid=5028317&#entry5028317

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 28, 2008, 02:57:18 PM
Dark Shadows dropped by 53 daily votes, yesterday... We'll still be the #32 show tomorrow, though!

Let's get the numbers back up, so we can sweep quickly through the next couple of shows, NCIS, and The Man From Uncle.

Stats and exhortations may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=620&gopid=5033777&#entry5033777

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 29, 2008, 03:22:41 PM
Dark Shadows is now the new #32 show!

Highlights and instant replays may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=620&gopid=5038845&#entry5038845

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 30, 2008, 02:59:22 PM
Dark Shadows weathers the storm, gaining votes while most other shows drop!

Stats, cogitations, and, not-so-wold guesses may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=620&gopid=5042489&#entry5042489

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on March 31, 2008, 02:52:35 PM
Dark Shadows fell below 400 daily votes again, yesterday; we need to get our numbers back up!

On the other hand, DS will rise to #31 in about two more days!

Some stuff I wrote about the voting:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=620&gopid=5046387&#entry5046387

Yours just because,

-Raycheetah =^[.]~=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 01, 2008, 03:26:52 PM
We must like being #32, because we're staying there longer than we need to! We can still get to #31 tomorrow, if we push harder than we have been.

I have to apologize; yesterday, I had a bad C&P on our positive vote differential, which indicated that it was higher than it actually was, though the target date didn't change. Our numbers dropped, again, today, a negative trend we must reverse!

Signs, portents, and, omens at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=620&gopid=5051190&#entry5051190

Yours despite my flaws,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on April 01, 2008, 11:32:15 PM
I just wanted to note that if we work hard we can get by NCIS. Then we could even get a Banner on Thursday.
Thank you for everyones efforts, we do make a great team.  [ghost_smiley]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 02, 2008, 03:17:33 PM
Almost #31! Dark Shadows was 11 votes shy of passing NCIS, yesterday. We'll certainly get there, tomorrow, as well as achieving our banner for 100,000 votes!

The daily stats, analysis, and projections may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=620&gopid=5055832&#entry5055832

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=

P.S.:

I do want to make one observation... (edited by admin)

I never tell anyone how to vote. I'm a Browncoat, and, we value our independence, as well as that of others. However, I will happily suggest that folks throw in their support for the other shows whose voters  have shared our efforts with us, all along, with no expectation of quid pro quo, only the commitment of friends to the prosperity of friends.

(edited)

Your mileage may vary.

-RC ='[.]'=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Midnite on April 02, 2008, 04:19:16 PM
Derogatory comments directed toward a poster on another board are not welcome, and bringing the problems of other posting boards to this one is strongly discouraged.  From the Forum Guidelines:

6. The negative discussion of other forums is to be avoided. In other words, no finger pointing.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 03, 2008, 01:02:48 PM
Derogatory comments directed toward a poster on another board are not welcome, and bringing the problems of other posting boards to this one is strongly discouraged.  From the Forum Guidelines:

6. The negative discussion of other forums is to be avoided. In other words, no finger pointing.
Mea culpa.

Won't happen again.

-RC ='[.]'=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 03, 2008, 02:33:22 PM
Dark Shadows is the new #31 show!

A couple more days, and, we'll move up to #30!

Stats, analysis, projections, at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=640&gopid=5060335&#entry5060335

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on April 03, 2008, 11:50:14 PM
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/dsbanner100000.gif)

Here is the banner, thanks for everyone's help.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on April 03, 2008, 11:53:06 PM
I've always liked that shot of Beth and Quentin. Very good choice.  [thumbright]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 04, 2008, 03:00:16 PM
We need to make a push to pass The Man from Uncle, tomorrow!

Dark Shadows barely topped 400 daily votes, and remain just a fraction more than a day away from taking the #30 spot. We can do it!

Stats, analysis, and projections may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=640&gopid=5064803&#entry5064803

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 05, 2008, 03:06:37 PM
Dark Shadows will be the new #30 show, tomorrow!

Stats, analysis, and projections may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=2285353&view=findpost&p=5069632 (edited by admin)

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 06, 2008, 02:46:13 PM
Dark Shadows is now the new #30 show on the TV Vote Top 40 poll, with a bullet!

Details and the projections of our next stop on our rise may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5gkkob

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 07, 2008, 03:46:22 PM
Dark Shadows isn't doing as well as it had been. We still need to get back up over 400 daily votes, preferably well over 400; right now, we're at about 100 votes below our best daily average.

Still making progress:

http://tinyurl.com/49ufhl

Let's pick up the votes, again!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 08, 2008, 02:47:32 PM
Dark Shadows is still working back up to 400+ daily votes; progress remains steady but slow:

http://tinyurl.com/4dywug

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah ='[.]'=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 09, 2008, 03:46:59 PM
Dark Shadows is back above 400 daily votes, again!

First of all, let's welcome Babylon 5 to the family!

A number of B5 fans have let me know that they've been voting for Firefly, Dark Shadows, and other members of our voting cooperative; now, I think it's time to recognize their efforts, and encourage folks to return them the favor! B5 is also a great show, if you haven't already seen it!

Stats, analysis, and pithy comments may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/4bn6f5

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 10, 2008, 02:16:43 PM
Dark Shadows got better numbers, again... 3 weeks to pass Charmed!

Details, specifications, and war plans may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5udyey

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: KajunDC on April 10, 2008, 07:07:35 PM
Hey Ray, gotta couple of questions for you about the poll.

First, is there a date that the poll will come to an end with final results, or will this keep going indefinitely?

And second, how high can DS realisitically get?  In other words, where is the point where we are catching up on the higher shows and the point where the higher shows are pulling farther away from us with the average of around 400 votes for DS (give or take) a day?  If that still does not make sense then what is the lowest ranked show, that is above us, that is averaging higher votes per day than DS?

Just curious. 

And let me compliment you on your diligence in this effort.  You've got me putting in a few votes a day, unless it simply slips my mind.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 11, 2008, 03:29:22 PM
Hey Ray, gotta couple of questions for you about the poll.

First, is there a date that the poll will come to an end with final results, or will this keep going indefinitely?

And second, how high can DS realisitically get?  In other words, where is the point where we are catching up on the higher shows and the point where the higher shows are pulling farther away from us with the average of around 400 votes for DS (give or take) a day?  If that still does not make sense then what is the lowest ranked show, that is above us, that is averaging higher votes per day than DS?

Just curious. 

And let me compliment you on your diligence in this effort.  You've got me putting in a few votes a day, unless it simply slips my mind.
Excellent questions, KajunDC!

According to Rich Labonte, the administrator of the TV Vote Poll, the voting will end either this coming January, or, in January 2010. This depends on where the poll is, and, what this year's voting was like. One factor is the fact that it is becoming increasingly difficult for a show to break out of the Nominations Poll (as Dark Shadows did, last December, and, which vampire shows Moonlight and Blood Ties, by dint of a focused fan effort, are poised to do in a few months). Simple mathematics, and the weight of the accumulated vote totals of the shows already in the Top 40, conspire to make it nearly impossible for a show in the Nominations to reasonably expect to reach the top of the noms, let alone pass the lowest shows in the Top 40.

Once no more shows are able to enter the Top 40, the field will gradually stagnate, as shows already there shuffle to settle into their eventual equilibrium. Bo-ring! So, the Poll dynamic will be the deciding factor as to when the voting will end.

As for how high Dark Shadows can climb? Well, based on the daily votes, DS is currently the 9th highest vote-getting show, and, has occasionally peaked at 7th, on a good day. Bad days have seen DS as low as 10th, but, Top 10 is an excellent target! Keep in mind that DS may not have the time to reach its potential rank, depending on how long the poll runs. However, a projected #8 is still great, and, if we don't get to reach it, we know we could've.

There are some additional dynamics, here. Of the 8 shows above us in votes, 5 (Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Angel, and Babylon 5, which is the lowest you asked about) are our voting partners, some of whose voters also contribute votes to Dark Shadows. In return, some DS voters vote for (at least) some of those shows. This acknowledges the fact that, even absent our friendly voting cooperative (which also increases awareness between fandoms of each other's shows), none of the shows involved are likely to change in the order of daily votes, and, so, present no tactical threat to one another. The advantage is shared by the participants, and, more importantly, we all get to make some friends.

Then, when Johnny Depp finally gets to work on the new DS movie project (whatever you may think of it =^[.]~=), the stir that a new Johnny Depp project creates will also benefit the DS fandom. Voters within and without our cooperative will take another look at DS, and, we'll get more votes. However, DS is so far behind the shows with whom we've partnered that, even though our daily votes may begin to approach or exceed some of theirs, we still would take a long time to catch them.

So, we get to enjoy the fruits of our long efforts, when we struggled to get into the Top 40, with a steady succession of advances up the Poll. There are still 21 shows ahead of us which get fewer daily votes than we do, and, every pass is another reward for our efforts. Should we have time to get there, we stand to enter the Top 10. DS recently exceeded 100,000 votes, after only 17 months of concerted effort; there are 7 shows in the Top 40, which have been there far longer than we, which have yet to reach 100,000 votes. We get 5,000 vote advance banners more often than 75% of the Top 40 shows, though we still await the luck of the draw to give us an exclusive banner, on a day no other show besides DS passes a 5k vote mark.

So, we have our goals, large and small, and...

Who knows what the future holds? All it would take is for Johnny Depp to declare to his fans that he votes for DS on TV Vote, and, my own, home fandom, Firefly, could be swept away in the dust.

Thank you for your questions; I welcome inquiries and feedback, and, I also thank you for your support. TV Vote is a lot of fun, or most of us voting wouldn't do it. Thank you, too, for your kind and encouraging words. It's my pleasure to help out.

As for today's report...

Dark Shadows had another good voting day! At this rate, we'll pass Charmed in under three weeks!

View the details at:

http://tinyurl.com/5lt2rc

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 12, 2008, 02:38:14 PM
Not such a good day, yesterday... Dark Shadows fell by almost 60 votes from the previous day =-[.]-=.

Still, it was a Friday, so, such is to be expected, if not on such a drastic scale. We're still making progress:

http://tinyurl.com/5n3upa

Let's get the numbers back up!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 13, 2008, 02:38:14 PM
Still no relief from the drought... It's been an iron-poor weekend for Dark Shadows:

http://tinyurl.com/4rqeyo

Let's see if we can do any better, today!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 14, 2008, 03:01:17 PM
Another anemic voting day. Poor Barnabas much be terribly thirsty!

The Dark Shadows hemoglobin count may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5ycs6c

Let's all donate a pint!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 15, 2008, 03:11:41 PM
A bit of an improvement, as Dark Shadows pushes back over 400 daily votes, again:

http://tinyurl.com/5wjunj

Let's raise Barnabas' blood count!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 16, 2008, 03:22:10 PM
Dark Shadows rising! A much better total, along with a shiny, shared banner, make for a very good day on TV Vote!

Details may be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/4anca5

Let's keep the votes flowing!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 17, 2008, 02:47:10 PM
Dark Shadows had another decline in daily votes, yesterday, by 40 votes! Ouch!

We can do better! Details at:

http://tinyurl.com/3n9cd4

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on April 18, 2008, 04:37:28 AM
Here's our 105,000 vote banner.   [ghost_smiley]

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/DSbanner105000.gif)
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 18, 2008, 03:36:14 PM
Thanks very much for posting the banner, Jackie! Yesterday's banner happened to include all the Whedonverse shows, as well as all the vampire shows in the Top 40, and, of the shows featured, Firefly, Buffy, Angel, and Dark Shadows are all members of our friendly voting cooperative!

Dark Shadows was above 400 votes, again, yesterday. Let's keep it there!

http://tinyurl.com/3jyw36

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 19, 2008, 02:42:27 PM
Another slow voting day...

(edited by admin)

Details, details, details:

http://tinyurl.com/4kt85u

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 20, 2008, 03:29:12 PM
Closing the gap, mainly because Charmed had a bigger drop in votes than Dark Shadows, yesterday:

http://tinyurl.com/4b3zcg

So, we'll get to #29 by early May, at the latest.

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 21, 2008, 02:58:08 PM
A much better voting day for Dark Shadows!

Details and corrections may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3j5jku

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 22, 2008, 02:59:46 PM
Dark Shadows is moving forward... About two more weeks to take #29!

http://tinyurl.com/4akah3

Onward and upward!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 23, 2008, 03:28:36 PM
Dark Shadows is getting closer to #29!

http://tinyurl.com/56xzpq

Let's keep moving, folks! Not too much further to pass Charmed!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 24, 2008, 03:21:26 PM
Dark Shadows surges ahead!

Yesterday's voting slashed the time to intercept Charmed by 3 days!

http://tinyurl.com/4kuw3n

Let's keep it up!

Also, I would like to ask our voters if they would give fellow vampire show Blood Ties a boost in the Nominations poll; just type or C&P "Blood Ties (2006)" into the write-in box and submit, after your Top 40 vote; the link is below*, in case anybody has forgotten how to get to the Nominations Poll, since we got Dark Shadows into the Top 40, last December =^[.]~=. BT is very close to topping the Nominations poll, and, it'd be mighty shiny if we could all help 'em out for at least one more day, to get 'em there, tomorrow!

Thanks!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=

* http://richlabonte.net/tvvote/nominations.html
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 25, 2008, 03:06:20 PM
A slow day for Dark Shadows, but, a really slow day for Charmed!

And, Blood Ties has passed Hercules, and is now poised to enter the Top 40 Poll in about 4 weeks!

Details and dissemination of data may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/4lq92z

Congratulations for all the great work!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 26, 2008, 03:28:59 PM
Dark Shadows continues the advance, though the weekend takes its toll on the daily votes.

Film at 11, details at:

http://tinyurl.com/5bma5r

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 27, 2008, 02:57:36 PM
Working through a bad weekend, Dark Shadows is still advancing against Charmed!

Details, details, details...

http://tinyurl.com/3t7l6e

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 28, 2008, 03:22:32 PM
Dark Shadows reached 110,000 votes, and got its first stand-alone banner, today!

Statistics, analyisis, and projections may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5qgfku

Congratulations to us all!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on April 28, 2008, 11:12:54 PM
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/dsbanner110000solo.gif)


Congratulations and thanks to all that voted.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 29, 2008, 03:08:00 PM
At over 400 daily votes, yesterday, Dark Shadows is back on the rise!

Details and commentary may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3u87xx

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on April 30, 2008, 02:41:15 PM
Dark Shadows resurgent, at 434 daily votes, yesterday!

Details, target dates, and other minutiae may be enjoyed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5lfzyk

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on May 01, 2008, 05:07:54 AM
Thanks for posting Ray and Jackie, everyone is welcome to help us out. With my own
conversations, there are people are asking about the show that have never seen it.

Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 01, 2008, 02:46:15 PM
Another good day for Dark Shadows, even though Charmed rallied in votes!

Episode listings and previews of coming attractions may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5sjqgz

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 02, 2008, 03:30:48 PM
Dark Shadows stands at the threshold of another pass!

Stunning news! Amazing details! Informative forecasts:

http://tinyurl.com/3sqxmy

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on May 02, 2008, 10:59:07 PM
I just wanted to say thanks for everyone that is voting. We will be passing Charmed
on Saturday. The more we vote that faster we will get another banner. Talked to Rich
about next time including more of the Ladies. (Not just vampire victims.) [ghost_rolleyes]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 03, 2008, 03:14:26 PM
Dark Shadows is the new #29 show!

Newsreel footage may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3tq4zx

Great job, everyone! Just a few more days to pass CSI!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 04, 2008, 03:36:03 PM
A rough weekend for most everybody, including Dark Shadows...

Damage control reports at:

http://tinyurl.com/42qfp8

Let's get back on track! Only a few more days to pass CSI to take the #28 spot on the TV Vote Top 40 Poll!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 05, 2008, 03:08:51 PM
The last votes of another slow weekend pass behind us.

Let's see if we can pick back up where we left off last week!

A rosy forecast is up on the AccuVote board at:

http://tinyurl.com/53jj5t

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 06, 2008, 02:41:28 PM
CSI isn't going down without a fight; Barnabas needs to show Grissom and company just how dangerous "dead people" can be!

Tickets to the main event may be had at:

http://tinyurl.com/57s7ej

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 07, 2008, 02:31:34 PM
As the days get longer, the nights get shorter, which means Barnabas doesn't have as much time to vote.

However, those of us who aren't vampires can still do better!

Mysterious glyphs, runes, and hieroglyphics may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/43bveh

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 08, 2008, 03:14:48 PM
Tomorrow, Dark Shadows rises again, to #28!

The writing is on the wall for CSI at:

http://tinyurl.com/6eer83

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on May 08, 2008, 09:56:15 PM
Thank you for everyone that has been voting. We are moving up but slowly.
Some of our next passes will take a little bit longer, they are putting up a fight.
Anything that you guys can do would be great. We will get another banner in
a couple days. 

Ray, thanks for posting everyday.

Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 09, 2008, 03:19:08 PM
Dark Shadows is the new #28 show!

Details of this most excellent achievement may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5dl6tu

Great job, everyone!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 10, 2008, 03:02:05 PM
We shaved off a few days on our way up the Poll!

Details, as well as a[n OT] picture from a friend, may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3nckqk

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=

(edited by admin)
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 11, 2008, 03:37:39 PM
Relatively speaking, Dark Shadows did very well, yesterday, with a positive vote differential jump of 52 votes over the previous day!

Details, details, details, as well as another [OT] pretty picture, may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/4lxcq9

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=

(edited)
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on May 12, 2008, 04:51:15 AM
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/ruswilinc/2008-05--11-sharedbanner.gif)

Here is the Banner, I like the White and Red. Thanks Jackie.

Thanks everyone that has been voting.

P.S. Happy Moms Day.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 12, 2008, 02:35:49 PM
Thanks for posting the Banner!

The usual suspects are lined up at:

http://tinyurl.com/6m9lkq

Keep voting! Dark Shadows is climbing the Poll, but we are slowing down!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 13, 2008, 03:39:13 PM
Dark Shadows is inching upward, but could use a boost!

Prognostications galore at:

http://tinyurl.com/5zze5c

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 14, 2008, 03:13:30 PM
More of the same, as Dark Shadows moves up toward the #27 slot:

http://tinyurl.com/6qtezb

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 15, 2008, 02:55:29 PM
SGA is not giving up without a fight!

Dark Shadows had a modest gain in votes, while SGA boosted their votes significantly, slowing us down even further. We need to get the votes back up over 400, again!

A detailed explanation of why may be found at:

http://tinyurl.com/6bt9ju

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 16, 2008, 03:09:34 PM
Another modest gain (1 vote) for Dark Shadows, yesterday, while SGA had a decline. Let's see if we can hold up our numbers, through the weekend!

Total votage is recorded at:

http://tinyurl.com/5z86el

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 17, 2008, 03:02:10 PM
I used to like weekends, but I hate what they're doing to our votes!

The grim details may be viewed by those not faint of heart at:

http://tinyurl.com/4vsq2d

Let's make the most of the remaining three or so months of the TV Vote Poll, Dark Shadows fans!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah ='[.]'=
Title: Our numbers went down, could use some help.
Post by: loril54 on May 17, 2008, 10:35:27 PM
Here is Saturdays totals. I hope that if you see this that you
can put in a vote or two. Some of us haven't been able to vote
as much. So one or two extra votes could be very helpful.
Please contact me off line if you would like to find out more.

Dark Shadows (1966)    117256 +311

Blood Ties (2006)    76998 +450

Moonlight (2007)    42781 +440

I haven't been posting a lot but still have been voting.  [ghost_rolleyes]

Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 18, 2008, 03:30:35 PM
Feelin' the pain all over!

Yesterday was pretty much the worst voting day we've seen in a long time, and that's saying something! Yesterday's plunge, an across-the-board drop, showed deep losses for most shows, particularly high-scorers. There's not much hope for improvement today for tomorrow's recorded scores, but we can hope that the weekend slump will end when workday voting resumes on Monday.

Sorry, no TinyURL, today:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=740&gopid=5242543&#entry5242543

Let's reverse this dissipation of our vital humours, and vote!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah ='[.]'=

Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on May 19, 2008, 01:40:23 AM
Thanks for all your hard work, Ray and Lori.  Still voting until the end... which seems to be just around the corner or should I say next year.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 19, 2008, 03:23:50 PM
Thanks, Jackie! You do your part, too, especially with saving the banners!

And, with just 1,573,150 votes remaining, the time will whisk away before we know it, especially when folks realize that the votes are dwindling. I'd say four months, on the outside, though I'm not tracking the time, just yet.

The future lies just ahead of us; glimpse it at:

http://tinyurl.com/669ay8

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 20, 2008, 03:05:04 PM
Dark Shadows is back up over 300 votes, but over 400 would be much better!

Look! It's the Barnabas Bat Signal at:

http://tinyurl.com/4zhcx5

(Just kidding; it's stats, projections, and analysis, as usual.)

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 21, 2008, 02:46:18 PM
Dark Shadows continues to move up... Slowly...

Details may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/68o774

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah ='[.]'=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 22, 2008, 02:56:24 PM
Our advantage is dwindling! SGA shaved our positive voting differential to just 23 votes, yesterday. If things don't get worse, we can still pass them, but it is getting very close to Dark Shadows being stalled, entirely, something of which the SGA voters cannot be unaware.

Dire imprecations may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3wk5n5

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah ='[.]'=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on May 23, 2008, 02:50:12 AM
I wanted to thanks everyone that is voting. We are now going into the summer.
Votes are down. If you could put in an extra one or two votes that would be great
I will not be able to vote as much.  Will be away from home alot more.

Take Care All.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 23, 2008, 02:57:23 PM
Dark Shadows got another boost, this time, from SGA's slowdown.

Details and implications may be derived from:

http://tinyurl.com/67fgsg

Keep voting! Time is limited!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 24, 2008, 02:49:59 PM
Dark Shadows is sustaining its vote level at around 300, which isn't bad, considering the weekend usually sees that number drop.

Stats, analysis, and projections may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/4f9ogk

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 25, 2008, 03:00:47 PM
The US Memorial Day Holiday has hit most shows in the Poll very hard, including Dark Shadows. This will probably persist through Monday's votes, but we need to do our best to keep the daily totals up, especially since SGA's numbers are also down, giving us an opportunity to gain on them faster.

Ideas, hypotheses, and theories may be observed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5qpxlb

Let's pick up the vote!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 26, 2008, 04:08:28 PM
Dark Shadows reached 300 daily votes, boosting our progress nicely!

Stats, analysis, and a pat on the back may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3u38a2

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 27, 2008, 04:00:27 PM
I'll be keeping an eye on Highway to Heaven, which is getting fewer votes than Dark Shadows, again. Still, we need to increase our positive advantage not only over H2H, but over SGA, which we need to pass, first. It appears certain that Star Trek: The Next Generation will fall behind H2H before we catch H2H, but, I'll keep the stats on their daily votes as an incentive.

Also, today, Dark Shadows got another banner, for 120,000 votes! That's an amazing achievement!

All the details on that, and more, may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3hpddh

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on May 28, 2008, 03:49:34 AM
Here's the banner for the 120,000 votes DS got today.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/dsbanner120000.gif)

And for the fun of it, here's just the Dark Shadows part I created from the banner:

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/dsbanner120000-only.gif)
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on May 28, 2008, 03:55:42 AM
(Gotta love some of the period outfits they put Darla in on Buffy/Angel.  [ghost_huh]  [ghost_grin]  Though personally my favorite is still her Catholic school uniform from Buffy's first season.  [ghost_wink])
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 28, 2008, 02:59:22 PM
Dark Shadows is rising, with another increase in daily votes!

The Mad Doctor's notes may be perused at:

http://tinyurl.com/4lx22r

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 29, 2008, 03:49:54 PM
No pass in June, at the rate we're going. Dark Shadows is now 32.99 days away from passing SGA, a show we were projected to pass this month.

Presumably, things will get better, but we have to work for it!

Dire imprecations and ill omens may be observed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5vvxr6

Let's recover our strength, voters!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah ='[.]'=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 30, 2008, 03:04:16 PM
A nice voting turn-around, cutting Dark Shadow's time to pass SGA by two-thirds!

A more positive prognostication awaits at:

http://tinyurl.com/42udzy

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on May 31, 2008, 03:33:37 PM
A couple more weeks of voting, at most, until we make our next pass, possibly as little as 9 more days, if we do well!

View the details of Dark Shadows' progress in the TV Vote Poll at:

http://tinyurl.com/59pae5

Keep voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 01, 2008, 03:42:31 PM
Fewer votes for Dark Shadows, yesterday, but an improved time to intercept, since SGA faltered worse than we did. We can't expect that to remain the case, but it was an opportunity to gain some ground, today!

Mathematical proofs of this phenomenon may be explored at:

http://tinyurl.com/64suyv

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 02, 2008, 04:12:44 PM
TV Vote: The ups and downs... SGA went up, Dark Shadows went down. We're still on track to pass in under 12 days, but we can do better!

All the voting news that's fit to read may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/4opcgj

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 03, 2008, 03:19:46 PM
A serious boost in votes for Dark Shadows has reduced our time to intercept SGA. Let's see if we can not only hold onto our boost, but improve on it, as well! Allied vampire show, Blood Ties, is also a day away from entering the Top 40; won't you please cast your Nominations votes to get them up out of the crypt?

Details and data may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/57spy2

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 04, 2008, 04:27:33 PM
Dark Shadows is still rising in votes, but so is SGA. We'll still catch them, soon!

Blood Ties is the new #40 show! Congratulations! Now let's start concentrating on Nominating Moonlight!

Details, details, details... May be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/6om4ue

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 05, 2008, 03:51:27 PM
Dark Shadows has halved the current time to intercept SGA! ...Just so long as we can maintain our positive voting differential over them! Meanwhile, Highway to Heaven has slipped past Star Trek: The Next Generation, making that our next target to pass.

Statistics, analysis, and projections may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/4eeayp

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 06, 2008, 03:59:13 PM
Dark Shadows advances inexorably, despite the best efforts of those above us in the Poll!

I'd like to make a request, and please pardon me for repeating myself: Let's also give Buffy the Vampire Slayer a boost for the next couple of days, if you would, please?

Our brilliant plan of action, along with cost analyses and fallback positions, may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/4ljwf9

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: JS on June 07, 2008, 02:57:49 AM
It says that you can vote every 60 minutes, I'll be here all night, So I saved the link.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 07, 2008, 03:00:29 PM
It says that you can vote every 60 minutes, I'll be here all night, So I saved the link.
Thanks very much for your support, JS! You can, indeed, vote up to once every 60 minutes, and it appears, based on our improved total, yesterday, that your contribution helped! Just keep in mind that votes are counted per network IP, so, don't go to the library or your office and vote hourly on each computer on the subnet, or all votes will be thrown out; multiple votes on rotating IPs will likewise be rejected.

Also, for more detailed information, please use the link, below, to visit a detailed vote analysis thread.

Now, for the news:

Dark Shadows is poised to pounce!

As predicted, SGA couldn't sustain their voting pace, allowing us a great opportunity to gain on them over the weekend!

Daily stats, analysis, and projections may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/6sa45f

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 08, 2008, 03:19:38 PM
Dark Shadows is SO close, that with a really good push, today, we could take out SGA and be the new #27 show, tomorrow!

Portentous foreshadowing may be observed at:

http://tinyurl.com/49h34v

Let's vote hard and make that pass!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 11, 2008, 11:12:40 PM
Dark Shadows is the new #27 show in the Poll, having passed SGA yesterday! Great work, voters! Our daily totals are also increasing; based on the numbers, it is clear that the Blood Ties voters are lending a hand to the other vampire shows, including Dark Shadows! Let's return their support!

Many thanks to those who may have been concerned about my whereabouts; I was benched by a styoopid computer issue for the past two days, but I'm back!

Stats, analysis, and projections may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/6jehaz

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on June 12, 2008, 12:34:26 PM
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/dsbanner125000.gif)

Our 125,000 banner.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 12, 2008, 03:25:53 PM
Thanks for the banner, Jackie!

Dark Shadows dropped off, slightly, though by tomorrow, your faithful Tallymister will be back to full voting speed (barring any further complications). Let's see if we can power past ST:NG, and bring H2H into striking range!

Stats, analysis, and projections may be viewed at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2285353&st=800&gopid=5332679&#entry5332679

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: loril54 on June 13, 2008, 03:45:20 AM
We have been working really hard to get the show moved
up. Every one or two extra votes do help.

Moonlight and Blood Ties guys have been helping us out.
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: JS on June 13, 2008, 03:16:06 PM
I think the next one to go under DS is Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm enjoying this I can't believe a lot of the shows that have so many votes that I've never seen. [ghost_embarrassed]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 13, 2008, 04:17:09 PM
Dark Shadows is getting over 100 votes more than the next several shows ahead of us. Much better!

Get the whole story at:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2254268&pid=5336171&st=1480&#entry5336171

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 14, 2008, 03:16:20 PM
Dark Shadows is making good time on TV Vote, taking advantage of ST:NG's weekend slowdown!

Grainy newsreel footage of our progress is screened at:

http://tinyurl.com/475gkw

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 15, 2008, 04:19:37 PM
Dark Shadows continues to press on, on TV Vote, with another decent advance on ST:NG, despite some really poor results for some other shows, such as Firefly (which posted some of it's worst numbers in a very long time, yesterday).]

Rumblings and rumors may be heard at:

http://tinyurl.com/43uzja

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 16, 2008, 09:14:19 PM
Dark Shadows got good numbers on TV Vote, for a Sunday; hopefully the weekday voting will be even better!

Numerological prognostications can be observed at:

http://tinyurl.com/4w5me7

Let's press on!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 17, 2008, 05:30:45 PM
Dark Shadows needs to pick up the pace on TV Vote, in order to take down the next several shows in quick succession!

Racing forms may be studied at:

http://tinyurl.com/5tpmha

Let's get voting!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: JS on June 18, 2008, 07:20:58 AM
I'm still on it every hour.  [ghost_smiley]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 18, 2008, 03:31:54 PM
Thanks for the support, JS!

Dark Shadows is still plugging along; stats and specs, as always, are on display at:

http://tinyurl.com/655vbz

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 19, 2008, 03:25:10 PM
Dark Shadows got another boost on TV Vote, in our daily positive vote differential, shaving four days off our current time to intercept ST:NG! However, we can't count on ST:NG to keep voting at such a reduced level; we need to vote as much as we reasonably can, and take control of our own progress!

Cryptic ruminations may be overheard at:

http://tinyurl.com/6dcp8c

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 20, 2008, 03:13:09 PM
Dark Shadows continues to press the attack, on TV Vote, rising to blunt a surge by ST:NG!

A blow-by-blow commentary is available at:

http://tinyurl.com/5ktn9m

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 21, 2008, 03:15:33 PM
Dark Shadows surges ahead, on TV Vote, getting an unusually massive influx of Friday votes, while ST:NG dropped off significantly, at the same time! Let's see if we can continue to capitalize on that, this weekend!

Long-range scanners are locked onto the Enterprise D at:

http://tinyurl.com/5h7uop

Let's keep it up, folks!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 22, 2008, 02:55:38 PM
Dark Shadows fell victim to the slump, yesterday, on TV Vote, which overtook most shows, with some alarming drops in daily vote totals. Still, Dark Shadows maintained a positive vote differential of over 100, relative to ST:NG.

Details, details, details may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5gcoe5

Let's move forward in the Poll!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 23, 2008, 04:10:42 PM
Dark Shadows got another boost on TV Vote, even for a Sunday, and closed the gap to pass ST:NG to less than 900 votes!

The usual statistics, analysis, and projections may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/3eteb5

We are, indeed, doing well! Let's keep it up!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 24, 2008, 03:00:20 PM
Dark Shadows surges ahead, on TV Vote, once again successfully blunting ST:NG's advance with one of our own!

Statistics, analysis, and projections, as always, may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/5c7wgk

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on June 24, 2008, 11:55:53 PM
Magda and Judith have hit the big times.   [ghost_cheesy]

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/dsbarnabasfan/animated/dsbanner130000.gif)
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: JS on June 25, 2008, 02:56:30 PM
Come on everyone, we are so close to passing Star Trek: the next generation. [ghost_tongue2]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 25, 2008, 03:00:55 PM
Yesterday's TV Vote banner for Dark Shadows was awesome! ...I think Rich might've figured out that DS is about more than just Barnabas.

We're doing great, by the way; congratulations!

Watch our progress at:

http://tinyurl.com/6dt5x7

Let's keep the effort up!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on June 25, 2008, 04:35:19 PM
I think Rich might've figured out that DS is about more than just Barnabas.

I would hope that everyone might actually realize that.  [ghost_wink]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Jackie on June 25, 2008, 11:25:07 PM
I think it's awesome that the picture choice was with Grayson Hall and Joan Bennett!!

 [clap2] [clap2] [clap2] [clap2] [clap2]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 26, 2008, 03:17:06 PM
Dark Shadows had a slight drop, yesterday, on TV Vote, but ST:NG fell by 1 vote more, maintaining our current positive voting differential!

Stats, analysis, and details may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/6r3glj

Let's keep it up!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 27, 2008, 03:22:48 PM
Dark Shadows continues to press the attack, on TV Vote, and, despite another surge by ST:NG, we're still right on schedule for a pass day after tomorrow!

Getcher headline news at:

http://tinyurl.com/44g25t

Great work, fans! Let's keep it up!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: JS on June 27, 2008, 06:18:03 PM
We should pass Star Trek: The next Gen with about 300 votes more and then keep it up to pass on over to the next show which isn't that much farther away. [ghost_cheesy]
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 28, 2008, 03:13:22 PM
Dark Shadows fell victim to the Friday slump, yesterday, on TV Vote, but, so did ST:NG! Dark Shadows will be the new #26 show, tomorrow!

All the news that's fit to print (and some that ain't) may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/48vf8q

Let's press on!

Yours just because,

-Raycheetah =^[.]~=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 29, 2008, 03:17:12 PM
Dark Shadows is the new #26 show, on TV Vote! Our sights are on Highway to Heaven, again, for the first time in a very long time, even if they may evade us briefly in the coming week or two, as the Highway runs behind the House (MD).

The roadmap of the terrain ahead may be found in the glove compartment (and, really, who keeps gloves there, anyway?):

http://tinyurl.com/485woj

Let's roll up the Highway!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
Title: Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
Post by: Raycheetah on June 30, 2008, 03:22:58 PM
Dark Shadows is hitting the Highway on TV Vote, though it appears that Highway to Heaven has a reasonable chance of slipping past House MD by tomorrow, certainly by the next day, barring a rally by the good doctor.

Racing forms and handicapping may be viewed at:

http://tinyurl.com/6eu85t

Thanks for your support!

Yours in the cause,

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=