Battle of the Prog Bands R4D1: Gen vs. Yes vs. PFM
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Topic: Battle of the Prog Bands R4D1: Gen vs. Yes vs. PFM
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Subject: Battle of the Prog Bands R4D1: Gen vs. Yes vs. PFM
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 15:32
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Welcome to Round 4 Division 1 of Battle of the Prog Bands! This time, our contenders are Genesis, Yes and PFM. Vote for your favorite, and the band with the most votes will move onto the Semi-finals. Please do not vote unless you have listened to at least one album by each band. Here is the tournament thus far:  Schedule for Upcoming Matches Round 4 Division 2: October 27 Round 4 Division 3: October 30 Round 4 Division 4: November 3 Semi-finals Division 1: November 7 Genesis, as per usual.
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Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 15:35
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this is gonna be epic... PFM ------------- |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 15:36
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Wow, am I the first this time? I go with Yes also this time. Poor PFM....  ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 15:37
No you're not  ------------- |
octopus-4 wrote:Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 15:38
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argh, just for one minute... ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Epyros
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 15:40
| were the multiple accounts banned??? they will keep causing trouble, unless he only wanted gy!be to win xD |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 15:41
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Give me a G...G!!! Give me a E...E!!!!............. -------------   
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Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 15:42
Sorry Yes and PFM... this goes to Genesis 
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Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 15:47
| Still YES for me |
Posted By: chemebien
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 16:09
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YES!
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Posted By: TheClosing
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 16:21
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 16:24
Here we go again. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 17:00
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The one with Roger Dean's stuff
-------------  Pentagram Pizza YumYum Bloody 
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Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 17:06
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I've voted twice for Yes already so I'm getting a bit tired of that I'll give Selling and CTTE a spin over the weekend and will try to make up my mind after that. |
Posted By: Synchestra
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 17:17
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gensis. Because Supper's Ready is just about the greatest thing to come out of the 70s aside from Fonzie ------------- 'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 17:30
to vote twice did u create a new account??
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Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 17:59
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Yes. -------------  |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 18:03
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Sorry PFM, you are only an onlooker here (hope, it's the correct English word for it).
What I did in the last two times, I repeat for the third time: I made a list of my top 10 Genesis and Yes albums: 1. Close to the Edge 2. Foxtrot 3. The Lamb... 4. Selling England... 5. Fragile 6. The Yes Album 7. Nursery Cryme 8. Relayer 9. Magnification 10. Wind and Wuthering Now I gave the first 10 points, the second 9 etc. Then I summed up the values for Genesis and Yes. Result: Genesis: 29 Yes: 26 The one with the most points gets my vote (again). |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 18:17
| My love of Genesis should count as three votes! Yes is good to, but, it's Genesis.. |
Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 18:20
BAN!  ------------- |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 18:35
| Genesis. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 18:45
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Yes.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: omardiyejon
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 18:47
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Yes. ------------- http://www.normalisr.com/?username=omardiyejon" rel="nofollow - http://www.normalisr.com/?username=omardiyejon |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 19:05
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Undercover Boy, I give you credit for continuing on with this. I'm going with Genesis for the hat trick. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 19:44
But of course, Genesis! Sorry PFM and Yes  ------------- 
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Posted By: Chela
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 20:29
I think he means he voted twice in two previous rounds with Yes, not on the same one
 This is going to be crazy, but I'll stay loyal.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?op=1&view=global&subj=56349912945&pid=242322&id=100000256980440&oid=56349912945">
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Posted By: PabstRibbon
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 21:01
| Genesis !!! |
Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 21:14
Can't vote (never listened to PFM), but I'll at least give my preferred band my support:
 ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: spookytooth
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 21:14
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Genesis
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Posted By: cyclysm748
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 21:32
| I'm sorry Yes, I love you too. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 21:43
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I have not heard at least one album by PFM so I can't vote, but I hope Yes wins.
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Posted By: Jazzywoman
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 22:36
| Yes for sure! Genesis is oddly my least favourite out of all these...lol PFM is pretty sweet too. |
Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 22:45
1. watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5WwrgC1qZk 2. vote YES 3... 4 profit. ------------- |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 22:48
| Yes, once again. PFM has done very little for me (perhaps my biggest dissapointment from what little I have known of RPI). |
Posted By: Shevrzl
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 23:06
| Voted for Yes now, probably will change my mine later. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 23:19
| Not looking good for PFM. I like them but not like I like Genesis and Yes. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 23:22
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YES.
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Posted By: Anderson III
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 02:25
Did someone actually sign-up multiple times to manipulate a poll?!? Very sad, but not nearly as sad as it's hilarious! ------------- "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo |
Posted By: Anderson III
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 02:34
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This poll was a smart move to decide the problem with Genesis and Yes.
------------- "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo |
Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 03:08
Haha, you got me there, and I though I had been so secure with my Bonnek2, Bonke3, Boenk4 and BoingBoing5 accounts  |
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 03:16
| I'm tempted to vote for PFM but, I guess Genesis does it more for me. I've never really learned to get into Yes (only like Fragile and CTTE) |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 03:24
 ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 04:33
| Well.. not of these bands are favorites of mine, but Genesis has some great albums. Yes never triggered me. PFM is a very good though. |
Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 06:09
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Yes all the way ------------- 
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Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 07:52
and I thought the presence of PFM would break the tie between the same old two ..... 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 08:00
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^ I guess some people are ignoring the OPs stipulation that you have to have listened to albums by all three to vote. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 08:06
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^ nothing new there
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 08:53
I don't know whether I can stand the tension of another one of these All three are brilliant. all have made immense contributions. But, my heart has to go with Genesis again. What do we do in the event of a tie again? ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 09:01
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^PFM will be knocked out and Genesis and Yes will have to go head to head....oh wait... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 09:02
| Three of my favourite bands, but for me, no band has more good music than Yes. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 10:29
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I have given Genesis the lead for the moment. ------------- 
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Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 10:38
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This isn't a poll to decide the best of the three; this is a poll to find out how many Genesis fans will switch to PFM, how many Yes fans will switch to PFM, and which of these groups has more (and consequently, which of the two bands will then win). As I'm sure everyone is doing, I'm sticking to my favourite, who I also voted for in the last 17 million of these polls....... ------------- http://www.thefreshfilmblog.com/" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 11:02
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 11:24
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In case of tie, I suggest PFM to go ahead. and eliminate Genesis and Yes because of their lack of ability to win a poll... for the third time in a row. ------------- |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 11:35
I approve  ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 11:36
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GENESIS
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Posted By: Shevrzl
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 11:42
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 12:21
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Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 14:17
| Yes |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 14:31
| Haven't heard PFM, so no vote. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 15:08
How do you know they have not listened to all three artists at one time or another? Who are these "some people"...do you know?
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 15:15
You should - they are brilliant. For advice on all things RPI, go to the RPI appreciation thread. I did, and it opened up a whole new world for me. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 15:57
I will refrain from voting until my vote can be really decisive into setting the draw  Henry is also out there with the same goal, too
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Posted By: Leo J.
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 16:05
| Genesis |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 16:21
I think any new polls should be done via snail mail from now on........or PA should charge USD100 per vote.
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Posted By: Jazzywoman
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 20:53
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 21:45
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How about a Yes/Genesis hybrid which we could call Yesesis? That way, the tie will be broken and the new hybrid band can move forward! ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
(With apologies to PFM and their fans.)Posted By: Deleuze
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 22:07
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Yes? yes. YES!
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Posted By: mahavishnujoel
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 22:52
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<<<<<< <<<<<< <<<<<< <<<<<< was that clear enough? no?? <<<<<< <<<<<< even tough the band who sang this [] is kinda cool [] \ / ------------- Me, I'm just a lawnmower - you can tell me by the way I walk. |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 22:58
Thanks. I'll be sure to check the RPI thread. |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 22:59
Then we'd have to make Pink Crimson to compensate.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 23:40
Well, I guess it would be rather unfair that only those people who have heard PFM can have their vote about whe among Genesis and Yes can move on. In the end, this poll is really about whom of those 2 will go on. As a matter of fact, the winner of this whole tournament, as far as this polls have shown us, should be a tie between Genesis and Yes (well, of course, unless King Crimson and Pink Floyd have something to say about it). Perhaps the best way to break the tie would be having the Semi-Finals as Pink Floyd VS Genesis and King Crimson VS Yes, and then have both winners in the final (and all of us would be damned if both Genesis and Yes won their respective matches, or if both semifinals would prove unable to get a clear winner). |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 03:10
------------- What? |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 07:14
Admittedly, I’m more familiar with Genesis and Yes than PFM. Still I know them well enough to have an opinion: 1) PFM are an extraordinary band with some outstanding music. Yet, 2) for me, Genesis are better. Not much better, just better. In a poll between PFM and Yes I might vote for PFM, just for the sake of it. Yes would still have won. ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 13:18
------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: b4usleep
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 13:30
------------- Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout. |
Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 13:55
I quote myself
I think its time to take this into consideration. ------------- |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 14:25
The word "I" -------------
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Posted By: Jazzywoman
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 14:28
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 14:33
Tie again! This poll is perhaps cursed!------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 15:19
It's simple deduction. This poll has about 150 votes now and it's very unlikely there's even 150 people in this word that have ever heard of PFM. |
Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 15:21
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By the way, after some Genesis re-listening I definitely stick to voting for Yes. I liked Genesis a lot when I was 15 but now none of their post-72 stuff really does it for me. |
Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 15:24
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tie broke. Close the poll! close the poll! omg close the freaking poll now and lets avoid all the mess! ------------- |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 15:27
Seriously? I'm willing to bet that 150 regulars to this site have in fact heard an album from all three. PFM is fairly known in these circles. They have enough respect on this site that those of us that didn't know of them before we came here have probably picked up an album of theirs out of curiosity. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 15:31
PFM was my first ever PA discovery back in 2005  Still Yes takes it, I might even prefer Genesis to PFM.------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 15:35
True. I did not know PFM before I joined PA, but because of its high ratings I listened a lot of them in the past weeks. And I really like it. But against two of my favourite bands they are no contest. (If it was PFM against Magma, it would give me some more thinking... ) |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 16:35
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What PFM has in common with Genesis and Yes is the poorness of its 80s, but if we look at those 3 bands starting from the 90s, PFM and Yes had a sort of resurrection. It didn't happen to Genesis. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Elderflower Man
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 16:47
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Genesis, definitely. Peter Gabriel's Genesis is nothing short of magical. I mean, I love Yes, but Gabriel's Genesis evokes something within me to an extent that Yes' never quite managed to. I never got into PFM that much, so they're pretty much out of the picture altogether here.
------------- All your hearts now seem so far from me, It hardly seems to matter now. |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 01:21
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Another tie. But PFM are in a rather unfortunate position. What odds from the bookies on Yes beating Genesis 91-91? PFM 15.  |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 07:35
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Genesis, still.
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Posted By: b4usleep
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 08:50
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I think somebody is still cheating and keeping the score tied. It is almost impossible for the third time a tie between two.
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Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 09:47
x 2 ------------- |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 09:50
| If it was a tie two times in arow why wouldn't it be possible to have a tie the third time? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 09:57
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Once we knew what we were looking for, tracking down and dealing with the "persons" responsible for cheating on the GY!BE vs Rush poll was relatively simple. The accounts in question have been suspended and the "people" behind them given permabans that includes blocking of the IP addresses of the two ISPs "they" used. Since this poll was created and has been running while we have been monitoring the site activity very closely, ehere is no similar evidence for cheating in this poll. That's not to say there hasn't been any, it's just we haven't seen it. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 10:00
bravo!  eat that FBI! ------------- |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 10:07
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I won't vote this "battles" are long that the 100 years war... no that's was epic!
And the last one poll of thie type was won by VDGG, so i think that in this the results are going to be quite similar. -------------  |
Posted By: b4usleep
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 10:22
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Usually popular polls get 100-120 votes. but Genesis vs Yes Polls always close to 200 votes (like in Rush GYBE poll) thats why i am thinking there could be a cheating. ------------- Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 11:50
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I love Storia di un Minuto.....
but I love too many albums by both Yes and Genesis to vote in this poll
still fun to watch the fireworks though ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 12:59
I think the poll just shows how a lot of people here in PA think/feel about Genesis and Yes.
Is there an actual day/time to close these polls? -------------
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Posted By: EatThatPhonebook
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 13:06
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Genesis. ------------- 
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