I wanted to experiment with a different, more accessible method of polling /mlp/ for their favorite episodes, so I’m going to try this out till the end of this mid season hiatus on the 30th and see what we get from it.
I’ll make a bunch of graphs and the data available at the end as usual as well.
You can vote on this as many or few times as you’d like and it will all count:
http://www.allourideas.org/4chanmlpepisodesurvey/
If you need to look up an episode or stream it then these may help:
http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Episodes
http://yp1.pony.pp.ua/episodes.php
http://xxnightmaremoonxx.de/vweb/?page_id=79&page=2
Feel free to talk about anything involving the show or movies as well while we wait for data to come in.
I'm mostly curious to see if this will look anything different than this if it were made more accessible than the crazy long lists that had to be made for it before.
Episodes so far with 8 unique voters and 479 votes.
Seasons so far with 11 Anons and 919 votes.
Does it ever get to an end or just keep asking random match-ups?
>>27803157
The point of this one is that you can do as many or as little votes as you'd like and they all count. It goes on till you want to stop.
Maybe I should've said that in the OP...
Episodes so far with 14 Anons and 1306 votes.
Pie family stronk when it comes to top episodes.
Seasons so far with the same amount of Anons as >>27803519.
I suppose the lack of Anons posting lists makes this method a lot more difficult now that I think about it. Can't really shitpost and meme other lists either, which hurts activity.
I'll try to keep this alive, but it seems like it'll be less than the method with the sorter provided.
For those of you who did the other surveys with the sorter that made a list. Is it any easier to go through this website at least? Maybe I can use both to maximize accessibility if that's the case.
>>27804790
I didn't know that you can keep choosing indefinitely so I'll post my list soon.
As for whether or not it's better than the previous sorter I liked the previous one because it had a back button because it's alot easier (at least on mobile) to make a mistake. I also didn't see something that would save your progress. I also like how it would show your progress in percentage ro how close you were being done while it's harder to gauge with this new one.
>>27804835
Well, this one doesn't really end. It's based on letting you pick as many as you want and stopping. Also it doesn't make a list.
I'll stress that this is experimental, even though I'll still make neat looking charts from this to compare to what I got pre-S6, because I really do like the lists and other data I can get from a thread.
>>27803519
A lot of shit episodes on top.
>>27805024
Only 14 Anons so far there though. What ones out of the top 10 do you think are shit?
>>27805058
The ones you think are good.
Episodes so far with 28 Anons voting and 2101 votes.
>Equestria Girls, The Mysterious Mare Do Well, and Princess Spike forming the bottom three
At least Spike had Gauntlet of Fire now in the middle.
>Spike at your Service not in the bottom 5 or even 15
Weird change there.
I'll bump this one more time before I get some sleep. If it's not around this morning I'll probably remake it sometime in the afternoon.
I'm not liking the new system as much. Since it's not making a list, I feel it's ranking are not going to be as accurate. I've been going for awhile, and I know I have not seen Return of Harmony appear once but Made in Manehatten feels like it's in every other vote. It just feels like I'm voting between the same few dozen episodes while the rest rarely appear and I feel like I'd have more incentive to keep going if there was an actual end.
Writers so far with 38 Anons and 2666 votes.
>>27806003
I don't like that it doesn't make a list either, but it does give a lot of other data that I think is interesting. Like response time and what won against what. Again, this is an experiment. I still feel like the sorter will be better. Especially with how dead this thread is without the list bumps/discussion.
In a way it's not going to be completely accurate because of the way a pair may match up. For example, I consider Equestria's Most Wanted to be filler, watchable but dull. But I'll vote for it over Princess Spike if the two get listed together.
>>27808412
I think it takes that into account looking at the vote counts per item versus the score it gives each one in these graphs. Lesson Zero and Maud Pie have the highest amounts of votes, but Amending Fences and A Hearth's Warming Tale still win out against the two of those in score so far since they loss less times. I'd bet the inverse is true for the mediocre, but watchable if it wins against the worst of the worst and nothing else.
Seasons so far with 42 Anons and 2742 votes.
boop
Episodes so far with 47 Anons and 3613 votes.
Thanks to whoever is keeping this alive when I'm not able to bump it by the way.
>>27802470
>Canterlot wedding that high
You guys have horrible taste.
Comparison to the results of the last survey >>27802470 so far with 3724 votes from 52 Anons.
>>27811274
>most of the top half being in the top half
>most of the bottom half being in the bottom half
Was there ever any doubt.
>>27802446
Does this recursively just keep looping at a certain point?
I feel like if the voting doesn't actually stop someone autistic enough and with enough free time can just sit here upboating their favorite episodes to rig the outcome.
>>27812343
It uses some sort of system to keep pumping out choices, hence the doing it as little or much as you want in the OP that could've been clarified better now that I think of it, and it does give a map showing who voted how many times. There are indeed a few Anons who went at it for a while. Those 3 big blips there for example are up 51% of the vote.
Did I mention this was experimental? I saw that the pony subreddit had used it when someone pointed it out during the post S5 survey threads and I thought I'd see how it would work here. So far I'm thinking it's not going as well as the sorter with the lists would've.
>>27812438
Yeah despite the complexity of the last method I appreciated the tangible count of how many were sorted and how many were left. Also limiting votes to when everything has been sorted.
Now I'm not sure when I should stop, if I'm giving enough data, or if somebody else is putting in exponentially more than everybody else that ours would just be a fraction of a change to the statistics.
>>27812476
The idea that I liked was that everything counted no matter if you have an hour to spare or 5 minutes. I was thinking that would mean more Anons trying to contribute, but the small amount of Anons doing a ton of the voting (those 3 big blips were 600-700 votes each) and the lack of built in list bumps/discussion making the thread more visible kill that.
Seasons so far with 57 Anons and 3957 votes.
>>27802446
I wanna bang that mare
>>27813464
I wannahugthat mare and smother herin kisses.
Episodes so far with 62 Anons and 4163 votes.
Bump before bed with the writers so far with 63 Anons and 4326 votes.
Seasons so far with 69 Anons and 4575 votes.
Episodes so far with 71 Anons and 5385 votes.
>>27817286
I ranked like 300-400 episodes because I thought this was going to end.
>>27802446
Hey OP, I only see a link to the episode question, am I missing where you're asking questions about writers and seasons?
>>27818418
Sorry about that. I only realized after making the thread and seeing other Anons ask that I should've said it kept going for as long as you wanted to vote for.
>>27818825
I'm averaging each writer's episodes scores and each season's episodes scores to make those graphs. There's no actual question for those.
>>27818943
ah, I gotcha. thanks for the clarification.
that's actually a pretty good and interesting way to look at the data, looking forward to seeing this as it shapes up more :D
>>27815708
still surprised that Crusaders of the lost mark is number 1. Its good, but THAT good?
>>27818956
A bunch of these are quite different then when I did this last time after S5 here >>27802470. I'm wondering if it's just a different crowd, the polling method is making a difference, a few opinions are being really over represented (see pic related), or if those episodes up there now have really gone up that much in popularity.
>>27815708
>The head writer of the show
>All the way down there at the bottom of the chart
This does not bode well for the series as a whole...
>>27817286
One thing about S6 though is that its operating under a handicap in that only half of its episodes have aired, and more episodes = more votes.
>>27818996
>more episodes = more votes.
It's an average, not a sum. A season with fewer episodes, but of better quality, would be higher than a season of poorer episodes.
>>27818991
well, there's only 71 people who've voted on this, right?
That's a pretty small number IMO, so it seems more that you probably got the attention of different people in mid S5 than you were able to get here, and due to the very small sample size of people, the results are apt to vary wildly.
maybe try and advertise a link on Other sites, like derpiboru, mlpforums and Equestria daily to get a larger sample size?
>>27819094
The sample I want is /mlp/. Advertising it elsewhere defeats that purpose.
The experiment here is using this site instead of the sorter that makes lists. I'm finding the differences are quite interesting.
>>27802446
That's really probably a better idea than the huge lists we had to compile for the other charts. It took forever to get to the end. I'm the anon who's been hosting the file for the last times we did this survey and even I agree that it was way too complicated.
>>27819107
huh. Maybe try plugging it every so often in the nightly generals then?
>>27819146
I really don't want to intrude on anyone else's turf. I've got my nose stuck in a bunch of generals and I still visit random threads a bunch too. I don't thing I'm tripping any common filters that Anons have around here, so I think over the next few weeks this will do okay enough.
Thanks for the concern though.
A bit different, but something I can do with this site's reports is show how many times an episode won a vote versus how many times it lost. So here's that with 81 Anons and 6656 votes.
Bump since I'm out and can't get to my computer to make another graph.
Bump before bed with the writers so far with 85 Anons and 6744 votes.
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Seasons so far with 87 Anons and 6942 votes.
Episodes so far with 88 Anons and 6944 votes.
Writers so far with 89 Anons and 6948 votes.
>>27824707
I'm kind of surprised to see Family Appreciation Day so low on this list.
>>27825711
It was a boring and unmemorable, I completely forgot the whole episode and had to google it.
Seasons so far with 93 Anons and 7455 votes.
>>27825711
A lot of people here seem to have no appreciation at all for AB. Spikefags sometimes complain that people are unfair to their favorite character, but at least they give his episodes a fair shot and have actual reasons to hate them when they do.
No matter what happens in an AB episode, where everyone's normally likable and in-character and there's a good lesson, it'll be lumped with the rest of them at the bottom, just because it's her. It's a damn shame that these people are reluctant to even try to discuss her episodes, dismissing them with "it's boring", but there's no use trying to disagree with the census.
Episodes so far with 95 Anons and 7614 votes.
Writers so far with 96 Anons and 7645 votes.
Seasons so far with 99 Anons and 7757 votes.
>>27802446
Thanks for doing the work, Anon. Had a hard time choosing on some -- and avoided "I can't decide" because sometimes the questions it asked didn't really apply. But seriously, this was fun. Thanks for making me think a bit.
Is it too late to fill out the survey? I can maybe do it tomorrow or later today. also bump
>>27830179
I'm letting this go till the 30th, so you have plenty of time.
need a bump?
>>27831600
Yeah, usually while I'm asleep like now.
Changes from >>27802470 so far with 110 Anons and 8034 votes.Sorry I was dead for a bit. Got really sidetracked with something else.
Thought it may be nice to see how the votes compare with the score generated by the site, so here's a graph showing winning and losing votes and the likelihood to be picked for each episode with 113 Anons and 8900 votes.
Writers so far with 116 Anons and 8948 votes.
Seasons so far with 119 Anons and 8983 votes.
