Dialed In got most of my votes as I have played it dozens of times while I have not yet plunged on TNA. It was a fun show to watch and congrats to all the winners!

So, things need to change to keep cheaters like you from messing with the vote totals?

Why even do that?

To make a point that the system is flawed.

Sure

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Your parents should’ve taught you that.

Right on brother!

Wow so Alien did even worse

Happy to help and verify for you. Won't share results.

Sorry but I object. Hilton has a long history of bias and favoritism on Pinside. And he has now admitted to cheating.
I would suggest someone like Lloyd or any other pinsider with a reputable history.

No shit. Might as well ask Putin and the Russians if they're up for verifying too.

It won't be hard to keep the integrity of the vote, and no matter what you're going to have people complaining about everything. In the end, these votes can only have 1 winner, and by the nature of the vote the winner will have won with more people having voted for something else. So there will always be some complaining, and accusations of vote rigging or stuffing.

Just a reminder that this is for fun, everyone.

You ask for feedback but don't want feeback??

You ask for me to independantly verify, but now are calling me untrustworthy?

I have proven to be trustworthy time and time again, and keep plenty of things confidentail when asked.
I also work with big data on a daily basis.

You should try the bryan kelly mantra a few times...bcause honestly you are kind of being one righ now...

I did not cheat... the current system allows for 1 vote per email account... those were literally the rules on the system this year.

omfg, this is supposed to all be for fun, f'in pinside sucks the life out of everything. can't even have a fun little awards thing (show was cool by the way, well done) without people getting all serious and calling names and complaining. seriously. people need to grow the f up.

/rant off

You violated the spirit of the contest and in my opinion, you manipulated the rules, resulting in cheating. Spin it however you like but I think most people will agree with me.

I have multiple email accounts and I only voted once. It never even occurred to me to do otherwise.

For real.

It's a pinball award show......

Sure... i violated the 'spirit' of a popularity contest where those up for popularity votes used their social media to broadcast asking for votes, lol.

There were no stated rules about voting only once.

You sound like the kid that gets mad because someone nudges when playing pinball and claim it is not in the spirit of the game. That IS the game, just like this was all about just getting the most votes. It is all a joke anyway and part of the self promotion marketing of our society. This is a PINBALL made up awards show, lol.

They asked for feedback and i gave my honest feedback. Keep things transparent and limit votes to one per person.

Don't get me involved in your conspiracy theories.

It's just a fun show and great time! Who really gives a F who wins or loses? Take it for what it is.

These guys obviously put in a huge amount of time and its greatly appreciated.

Maybe we should get the accounting firm of Ernst & Young to tabulate the votes?

pin2d I'd be happy to help verify results if you need it.

Me too.

Can you somehow use PinSide user names to verify the one-vote rule. Or at least give more weight to Pinside-verified (or twitch/youtube subscribers) ballots?

Same here, happy to help. Let me know how.

This was for fun and to recognize pinball manufactures and modders by the fans of pinball. Don’t get bent out of shape if you think your vote favorite should have won. Same for pinside top 100 - take it with a grain of salt, you may disagree with a few of those as I do.

Thanks to all that were part of making TWIPY possible, those that voted, and those who won.

What was that comment Steve Ritchie made about pinside.....

Why are you such a nightmare on every thread??? Why

I’ll never understand why understand why the entire hobby bends over backwards to appease this guy.

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It was a great show and well thought out to Entertain us! Thank You for doing it but Please don't let a few stand out Pinsiders take this fun effort of entertainment and make it a political debate. What you did, how you did it is perfect. There will always be people to cheat or complain. Sadly there are always individuals that feel the need to drain the fun out of everything and every effort... Even something as simple as pinball.

Honestly, Ive been on pinside 4 months and every time I see this guys name its nothing but a trainwreck. Talk about a negative Nancy. This was suppose to be fun man. Noone wants to hear your bullshit. People actually have "real" stuff to worry about in their everyday lives, not if Dialed In wins 4 or 5 Tripy awards. Not to mention these guys busted their asses trying to make something fun and enjoyable and people want to shit all over it. Comical.

funny part is that I thought the show was entertaining and was just giving feedback that they asked for.

Any social polling is hard to do and ripe for abuse, but with them wanting to be THE annual awards show, they should take efforts to make improvements.

I dont have any problem with it until people start attacking or saying I am not trustworthy, which is clearly not the case. I am one of the most trustworthy and loyal people out there.
Just because i ruffle some feathers with my opinions does not make it OK to say some of the shit that others are, or make those sort of accusations.

Why do you ALWAYS have to bring negativity to every thread on here??? Can’t you just zip it once in awhile at least?

Tommy and I recorded an acceptance episode to release when we won for best Podcast....that is going to be awkward.

Congrats to all the winners and thanks for taking the time to do this, fun way to do a year in review. If you need help verifying stuff for next year I'd be happy to help as I am certainly never going to win anything.

I agree with you insomuch as these "awards" should be one person one vote, and the votes should come from primarily pinball people and not be an exercise in how many random social media followers you can convince to stuff the box in your favor. There are people out there who for obvious reasons would take advantage of open nature of the system as it may stand.

For all I know, this may already be taken into account and guarded against.

Hilton, you are prickly and forward and I often wonder what you're going on about, but I don't think you're untrustworthy. That's not fair....

You could require people voting to input their pinside username, or add in questions that practically every pinball enthusiast could easily answer. This would filter out most of the social media votes.

Possibly Pinside itself could be used as a gatekeeper of sorts to a future vote. I'm not talking about opening polls, I like the secret votes and how it was handled this year, just talking about using some technology from Pinside, as an alternative to gmail.

Voting is open to Pinside members, and within that, non-validated Pinsiders might have their votes more carefully reviewed (ie: if a particular category has an abnormal amount of high votes for a particular selection, all from non-validated Pinsiders (ie: new users who signed up just to vote), then those votes could be reviewed/discarded.

This would take a bit of work from Team Pinside, but I suspect they'd be happy to be a part of this.

Trustworthy?

Didn't you attack Jared when he commented that Kevin Kulek didn't have the IP license?

Didn't you say people should stop talking about the licensing issues, because they were debunked?

Didn't you call the people investigating the license a "sick pinhead"?

Didn't you say Predator games were being built?

Didn't you say it was silly for someone to go out of their way to contact Fox?

Websters defines trustworthy as: worthy of confidence

Websters defines confidence as: faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, or effective way

I would think Robin could easily set up an Oauth 2.0 stream that lets outside apps authenticate against pinside, but it would limit the voting base a little.

There would be some blowback from pinside haters, but it's showing yesterday "4,313 of 45,612 Pinsiders logging on", which is multiple times the reported participation of the current vote.

I'm going to suggest there will be no "perfect" solution, but perhaps some are better than others.

The show was very well done, the voting was fine, the winners were fine. Several would have not been my choices but this isn't jgentry's award show. People are taking this stuff way too serious.

Agreed! Back to flipping

Im sure people would have alot more to say if they knew they wouldn’t get moderated.

dont hold back tough guy

Im not trying to be tough, but theres no reason to be such a negative Nancy about everything. This is a fun thread and i dont think anyone takes it that serious. I definitely didnt agree with all of the results but its just not a big deal. Zach and Greg are awesome guys and they make pinball fun with their shows. You are probably a decent guy and you like pinball so thats good enough for me, you just need to try to enjoy the hobby more i think and drop some of the negativity once in awhile. Drink more beer, play more pinball and relax!

Next year can you have a write catagory for most hated pinsider? I would love to see the entries for that catagory!

There's enough piling on at pinside already. No reason to make a positive award show anything negative. How about a most helpful pinsider instead?

This was more meant as a joke, because people are shit string and fighting about a thread and award show about pinball categorizes.....