Brutal Recall 07 ch23

          "who are the voters?"

        an article by TCH/BRUTAL.

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if you compare the charts from one mag
  to another,you will come to the
  conclusion that no charts are equal to
  eachother.

you probably have read this somewhere:

"people who vote don't know what they
 vote for,they just want their address
 in the contactcorner of the magazines!"

well,this text is a bit true as far as
  the voters don't really care who's
  nr.1 and so on,they just write their
  top 10 in a random (elite) order.
  so people say that voters don't know
  anything of what they talk about!?!
  this is not really true if we talk
  about cracking. most voters vote
  because they want their address in the
  contact-corner so that means that most
  voters are SWAPPERS.
  and who get all the wares?!?
  right! swappers do. and as swappers
  get all the wares,they are the best to
  judge who's the best!!!
  now there are people that want the
  graphic-artists to vote for the
  graphic-artists and the composers to
  vote for the composers and so on.
  but mostly those dudes don't swap with
  a lot of dudes!!!
  so don't get the wares!!
  it's also unfair to let the USA dudes
  vote for european groups as they,
  especialy with cracks,only get to see
  the version which appear on the boards
  so only the 'elite'-wares...
  while mostly these versions are the
  worst,but they are fast!!
  now to get back to the swappers...
  the biggest group of people on this
  machine are,you guessed it,swappers!!
  so what the swappers think is most
  important,isn't that right!!
  they can let people raise and fall in
  the charts and so on..
  and you can't judge TASTE!
  this taste is of big influence in both
  the MUSIC as the GRAPHIX section of
  this computer...
  if you say that GOTCHA can't draw than
  that's what you think of it...
  as it seems that a lot of people like
  his graphix he's the number 1.
  it's the same with JCH. i personaly
  don't think he's the best composer,but
  a lot think he is so he rules charts!
  if we really want to know who's the
  best cracker,we can easily test this
  by sending every cracker the original
  of a super-protected game and ask him
  to crack it,but not to put an intro
  infront of it and not to do any double
  cheating. also put on a time limit and
  then you'll see who is/are the best!!!
  with coding this is also possible by
  simply asking every good coder to code
  a routine for whatever (for instance
  128 bobs) and see who makes the one
  that takes less rastertime.
  for graphics and music this is not
  possible because of this 'taste'thing!
  and also for magazines this is some-
  thing which counts.
  for swapping-charts it's real strange
  as i see people voting for me,while i
  don't even swap with them!!!
  strange,strange,strange...
  the last thing there is,is friendship.
  people sometimes vote for their own
  group-members or for their friends...
  this is somekind of cheating by the
  voters themselves,but what can be done
  to avoid this?!?  nothing i'm afraid!

so i think that you shouldn't take any
  chart too serious as it depends on the
  number of people who voted and on who
  has voted and possible friendship.

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            "brutal recall!"
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