Talk:Survivor Sucks
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[edit] vote for the worst
VFTW should be its own entry.
If anybody can help me expand on this entry, please do!
- I agree strongly. --164.107.223.217 06:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] NPOV and Cleanup stickers
I'm sure the website is loads of fun for people with nothing better to do, but this reads more and more like an ad. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. --Fire Star 16:34, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
I concur.
- This article needs major cleanup. It looks like a promotional tool for the website, is unsourced, and has far to many items that are not of note. If it isn't fixed, it may be up for deletion again. TommyP 06:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. There is no evidence anywhere that says it was VFTW that helped Sacott Savol and Kevin Covais get further in the competition. MoChan 03:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Survivor Sucks' Gold Status
The article presently states that:
"The board is also notably ad-free and pays for its ezboard premium "Gold" status entirely through voluntary member donations."
See this Blog entry and Survivor Sucks' Community Chest payment details. Those figures would suggest that their Gold Trial status has been free for around a year now, in common with some other, larger ezboards. RichardHMorris 10:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
The board does pay for its Gold status, as shown by the withdrawals in the payment detail linked above. If some ezboards are getting Gold for free (which isn't likely as it pays for the bandwidth), Sucks is not one of them. Antithesys 04:03, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
In that case, why does that link still show that the active 'purchase' was a Gold Trial which is shown as costing zero bucks? And why does it show an anonymous withdrawl rather than a 'proper' purchase? For the avoidance of doubt, can you confirm that your annual renewal - which appears to be your first... - cost $7943? RichardHMorris 10:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
The $7943 was the amount in the community chest when negotiations concluded this year; the actual cost of renewing Gold for a full year was much higher but ezboard agreed to take what had been raised up to that point. A normal board would just hit the "Renew Gold" button when they had raised their needed funds and let the system take care of it automatically. Since Sucks negotiates its renewals directly with ezboard, the ezboard staff goes in and adjusts the Gold status manually, and that is probably what causes the perceived anomalies in the payment history.
The original concern over whether large ezboards are given "free" gold status is not warranted; though bandwidth numbers are not publicly available I can tell you Sucks uses over 20GB of bandwidth every day. I doubt ezboard is willing to simply give that amount of bandwidth away for nothing. It's my opinion that the other large board which reported free gold status had misinterpreted, or was miscommunicating, something. Antithesys 15:43, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Many thanks for clearing up the apparent anomaly. RichardHMorris 23:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] VFTW effectiveness
Is there any proof at all that Vote For the Worst is what kept Scott Savol around? I don't see how it can be stated as fact that VFTW is what caused that. -- N2f 04:20, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Is there any proof at all that any fan group kept any contestant around? All we know is one week Scott was in the bottom two, then VFTW was all over the media, and then suddenly Scott was in the TOP three (with Bo and Carrie) the next week.
