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We have added a little more chrome to the Top Affiliate Challenge website over the past couple days.

First, you may have noticed a new “Statistics” link above the videos on the user pages. We always intended to make the voting process transparent.  We want people to know they can trust that the voting is accurate and there is not behind the scenes manupulation going on.

What we did not think about was that if our reporting was 100% up front, that information could be used to develop and test mechanisms to game the voting process and give a contestant an unfair advantage.

We bridged that divide by installing a time delay.  We are providing statistic information that tells you the average value of the votes people are casting on your video, the number of supervotes you are benefiting from, and the base score that was awarded to a video, but it is slightly delayed.  The delay makes it more difficult to use the information for neffarious purposes.

Secondly, we have introduced trends in the top 10 widget that sits in the website’s left sidebar.  This will tell you if you are trending up, down, or no change (note to our visually impaired users - these trends are represented by a grahic that does not have alt text - we will address that on Monday).

The trends are calculated by measuring all of the votes you have received in the past 2 hours and comparing those to your overall vote totals.  Note that this trend only measures open votes and is not impacted by super votes.  Hence, it is possible for someone to move from last place to first place by purchasing super votes while still “trending down.”

I have some new videos to share with you all this weekend, and hopefully will have some audio from a radio interview to post as well.  Two new videos going up tomorrow