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Love Monster
Love Monster aka Lovester has been a member since November 16, 2008, has scored 235 submissions, giving an average score of 1.87, helping 1 designs get printed.
Good day to everyone. I figured out what happened with the scoring why it went up that high. I own an internet cafe so I asked a favor from my friends to help with the scoring with fake accounts for that design. But not thousands. I also promote it to the customers by giving them extra 30mins internet time for free if they vote for it. But everytime they turn back to the elephant design it shows that it doesn't yet been scored so they kept scoring it again and again and again. Until the last day of scoring it was kept open for voting as if it wasn't yet been scored and with multiple accounts multiply to the number of repeated votings it skyrocketed to that number of votes.

I apologize this caused a lot of trouble and I promise to just leave the voting to other people in Threadless alone whether they like the design or not.

Thank you so much for your time.
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Edword
   Edword on Jun 09 '09 at 10:03pm
WOW!!! That's crazy!
ir0cko
   ir0cko on Jun 09 '09 at 10:04pm
whoa
Montro
   Montro on Jun 09 '09 at 10:04pm
Honesty is good. Well done!
chelly
chelly on Jun 09 '09 at 10:05pm
well, that's a first
Torakamikaze
   Torakamikaze on Jun 09 '09 at 10:06pm
Edword
   Edword on Jun 09 '09 at 10:06pm
did you also ask them to vote other designs lower? just asking?
tracerbullet
   tracerbullet on Jun 09 '09 at 10:07pm
ZANZIBAR!
olie!
   olie! on Jun 09 '09 at 10:07pm
ir0cko on Jun 09 '09 at 10:04pm

whoa
kashlen
kashlen on Jun 09 '09 at 10:07pm
Wow! I do like your designs, just a 3.8 was surprising, you know?
Johnny Baboon
   Johnny Baboon on Jun 09 '09 at 10:10pm
i need to buy an internet cafe
Love Monster
Love Monster on Jun 09 '09 at 10:11pm
I only promote that design specifically to every friends and customers I can ask favor from.
maddingo
maddingo on Jun 09 '09 at 10:11pm
I like the cut of your jib



ayearinreview
   ayearinreview on Jun 09 '09 at 10:16pm
Now, if only we know why so many designs scored surprisingly low when they reached the 7 day mark today ...
Ivantobealone
   Ivantobealone on Jun 09 '09 at 10:18pm
One part of the mystery solved
xiv
   xiv on Jun 09 '09 at 10:24pm
crazy.





im pretty sure the design would sell out fairly quickly on infants/kids tees though.
kashlen
kashlen on Jun 09 '09 at 10:30pm
xiv on Jun 09 '09 at 10:24pm

im pretty sure the design would sell out fairly quickly on infants/kids tees though.
FRICKINAWESOME
   FRICKINAWESOME on Jun 09 '09 at 10:47pm
I'm still mad, but I'm less mad. Thanks for owning up to what happened.



This is why i kinda think emptees and other places where you ask anonymous people to vote on your design is something that influences the score a bit too much on the tees. I mean, there's no way to enforce this, and Threadless makes the final decisions of course of what to print and what not to print, but besides sending out a "hey, vote for my designs!" to a couple friends, I think it muddies the process.



Oh well, I hope we figure out the nearly impossible low scores for the other ended designs.

HAHA.sg
   HAHA.sg on Jun 09 '09 at 10:53pm
agreed!!!!
chelly
chelly on Jun 09 '09 at 10:54pm
just think of all the new ppl that got introduced to threadless because of this
HAHA.sg
   HAHA.sg on Jun 09 '09 at 10:55pm
ayearinreview on Jun 09 '09 at 10:16pm

Now, if only we know why so many designs scored surprisingly low when they reached the 7 day mark today ...



yes yes yes
Malcolm Man
Malcolm Man on Jun 09 '09 at 10:56pm
penis on a stick.
HAHA.sg
   HAHA.sg on Jun 09 '09 at 10:57pm
just be sincere in every ways, i mean not only here.(:

thats the most important.
squatterjohn
squatterjohn on Jun 09 '09 at 11:02pm
That this is now one of the highest scoring designs ever is an embarrassment.
agrimony
   agrimony on Jun 09 '09 at 11:04pm
i was kinda hoping for the 'i am ashton kutcher' explanation.
WarDrobeInSpareOom
WarDrobeInSpareOom on Jun 09 '09 at 11:05pm
Whoa. I was not expecting this.
Edamame Obake
Edamame Obake on Jun 09 '09 at 11:11pm
wow

thanks for being honest, dude ; )
radiostaticstar
radiostaticstar on Jun 09 '09 at 11:15pm
olie! on Jun 09 '09 at 10:07pm

ir0cko on Jun 09 '09 at 10:04pm

whoa
Resistance
   Resistance on Jun 09 '09 at 11:18pm
lol @ agrimony
bsweber
   bsweber on Jun 09 '09 at 11:19pm
well this definitely took guts, i respect that!
Resistance
   Resistance on Jun 09 '09 at 11:22pm
I'll go ahead and put my chips on the table and say this is why a ton of shirts have underscored lately. "I don't have a clue" being one of them.
d3d
   d3d on Jun 09 '09 at 11:24pm
so how much income did you sacrifice to secure this opportunity for embarassment?
Krakaboom
   Krakaboom on Jun 09 '09 at 11:24pm
Edword on Jun 09 '09 at 10:06pm

did you also ask them to vote other designs lower? just asking?




I don't thinkl the fake voters have been deliberately giving zeros to other subs, otherwise they'd ALL be getting 1200+ votes.
kashlen
kashlen on Jun 09 '09 at 11:27pm
agreed
rossmat8
rossmat8 on Jun 09 '09 at 11:28pm
Great idea just next time give them 30 minutes free if they vote on threadless designs. Maybe like 10 designs or whatever. Maybe they'll like what they see and join the site for real. Good job owning up, and this is actually a pretty good design just not 3.8 good.
Resistance
   Resistance on Jun 09 '09 at 11:29pm
If just half of them decided to do it (I'm estimating 600 some people helped him out by subtracting average votes from 1200).... 300 votes of ZERO thrown at a totals of 500-800 votes lately... it could take a deserved 3.1 down to a 2.0
WarDrobeInSpareOom
WarDrobeInSpareOom on Jun 09 '09 at 11:33pm
Yeah, I bet some of them did.



My mind is so boggled, though. Like, I thought you guys were being paranoid.
kashlen
kashlen on Jun 09 '09 at 11:34pm
I wonder if the t-less staff suggested for him/her to do this
Krakaboom
   Krakaboom on Jun 09 '09 at 11:39pm
I suppose what Threadless can possibly do is subtract every vote from his internet cafe's IP address from all scores for all subs. That might help.
Malcolm Man
Malcolm Man on Jun 09 '09 at 11:40pm
This blog reminds me of this one time when I ordered a hot dog and got a penis on a bun instead.
emilymmkay
emilymmkay on Jun 09 '09 at 11:42pm
hmmm
Krakaboom
   Krakaboom on Jun 09 '09 at 11:51pm
Can I just say though, that unless his pals have been voting zeros on other subs this guy hasn't actually done anything other than what Threadless encourages you to do ie promote your sub and get people to vote for you? Granted, he's taken it a bit to the extreme, but if even 10% of these people come back, that's still 60 new people coming to Threadless. Voting numbers have been plummeting in recent times, so maybe this is a good thing.



Just my two cents.
igo2cairo
   igo2cairo on Jun 09 '09 at 11:55pm
Glad you're being honest but still really annoyed that certain designs that should have scored high are getting ridiculously low scores. It's one thing to enlist people to support your design, but to tear down other good designs in the process just isn't fair play.
kashlen
kashlen on Jun 09 '09 at 11:55pm
kashlen
kashlen on Jun 09 '09 at 11:56pm
We can't say that the elephant thing relates to the low scores of others, though...can we?
kashlen
kashlen on Jun 09 '09 at 11:57pm
I agree with krakajustin
mgill52
mgill52 on Jun 09 '09 at 11:59pm
is there a blog with all of these recently "underscored designs"
WarDrobeInSpareOom
WarDrobeInSpareOom on Jun 10 '09 at 12:04am
I also promote it to the customers by giving them extra 30mins internet time for free if they vote for it.



That's technically buying votes, not promoting.
Chipmnk
Chipmnk on Jun 10 '09 at 12:06am
Malcolm Man on Jun 09 '09 at 11:40pm

This blog reminds me of this one time when I ordered a hot dog and got a penis on a bun instead.




We have much discussing to do, Malcolm.
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jun 10 '09 at 12:08am
I forgive you, but my tommygun don't!
EricaTheRed
   EricaTheRed on Jun 10 '09 at 12:10am
I forgive you, but my tommygun don't!



LOL

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