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Moneybutt: The Butts of Summer

Update [2006-7-30 2:12:59 by Apricot]: Your many (30,000+) votes have upset the server and caused very annoying data corruption. So, I'm going to have to call off this round for official results until another time I can properly support and wrestle with the server. I'll leave it up, but it will probably continue to need resetting in this annoying way. :(

Okay, it's clearly time for another round of Moneybutt.  This began as an attempt to quantitatively rate people's butts, but has grown, like a strange mold, into something bigger.

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In short:

  • You vote on choices between two entities.  
  • Every few votes, you get a special choice... sometimes you're forced to rate pairs against pairs, other times Moneybutt tries to give you a painful choice.
  • It's free. Vote as much as you like, using whatever criteria you like.  
  • You get little badges for voting a lot. Voters are listed in order of number of votes.
  • You can limit your voting to certain categories, like "Oakland A's" or "Men" or "Women" (or combinations).  You can even edit your prefs to never see entities from categories, e.g. "Gross".  (Now why would we need a feature like that?)
  • You are encouraged to add new pictures for existing entities.
  • You are encouraged to add new entities.  PG images only please, and try to link only to the bigger websites. You should put your new entity into the right categories as well. Seeing people's added pictures and entities is my favorite part.
  • There isn't much documentation, but you should be able to figure things out clicking around the top area of the page.
  • The website is linked at http://owlmelon.com/moneybutt
  • I turned off the game for a while because it was maxing out my server limits, but I've got a new server now, so do your worst. Heh heh.

The current rankings of A's related entities are posted below. But since the last vote (Thanksgiving 2005), AN has gained a lot of different people whose opinions may be different. I will post the new rankings sometime after the weekend of Aug 5 (depending on when I can get net access on the road!).

Good luck!

0.851   Rich Harden
0.817   Mark Ellis
0.815   Huston Street
0.811   Bobby Crosby
0.807   Eric Chavez
0.803   Mark Kotsay
0.799   Nick Swisher
0.794   Danny Haren
0.791   Barry Zito
0.786   Mark Mulder
0.779   Tim Hudson
0.752   Justin Duchschererer
0.747   Billy Beane
0.743   Dan Johnson
0.736   Dennis Eckersley
0.73    Scott Hatteberg
0.724   Joe Blanton
0.719   Jason Kendall
0.709   Adam Melhuse
0.696   Kiko Calero
0.687   Stomper
0.686   Miguel Tejada
0.682   Bobby Kielty
0.675   Dave Stewart
0.667   Jay Witasick
0.66    Bill King
0.66    Ron Washington
0.65    Jay Payton
0.646   Jason Isringhausen
0.636   Eric Byrnes
0.633   Rollie Fingers
0.629   Rickey Henderson
0.624   Kirk Saarloos
0.624   Keiichi Yabu
0.609   Frank Menechino
0.601   Joe Kennedy
0.593   Ken Macha
0.591   Ramon Hernandez
0.59    Bob Geren
0.584   Fear Mecir
0.584   Larry Davis
0.579   Brandon Buckley
0.578   Shane Komine
0.573   Daric Barton
0.571   Keith Ginter
0.566   FIRE MACHA NOW!
0.558   Travis Buck
0.547   Esteban Loaiza
0.547   Kevin Melillo
0.547   Billy Beane Big Brother
0.544   Hiram Bocachica
0.54    Aaron Harang
0.534   Art Howe
0.534   Mark McGwire
0.532   Milton Bradley
0.527   Anthony Recker
0.523   Paul Depodesta
0.521   Jeff Tam
0.513   Connie Mack
0.511   Jason Hart
0.51    The Bash Brothers
0.507   Tom Candiotti
0.499   Adam the Ballboy
0.498   Mike Gallego
0.497   Jeremy Bonderman
0.496   Cliff Pennington
0.489   Steve Sparks
0.471   John Jaha
0.465   Lance Blankenship
0.455   Billy Koch
0.452   Jeremy Giambi
0.45    J.P. Ricciardi
0.443   Jimmy Foxx aka The Beast
0.439   David Forst
0.436   Vancouver Canadians
0.432   Mark Teahen
0.42    Storm Davis
0.415   Mickey Cochrane
0.414   Jason Giambi
0.403   Keith Foulke
0.393   Mike Magnante
0.389   Ricardo Rincon
0.386   Mickey Morabito
0.32    Jose Canseco
0.216   Kenny Rogers

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Yay
I'll have a whole bunch of new pictures to add to this by tomorrow or Saturday.
Stephen Colbert: "Kids who look up to athletes become athletes themselves."
The Word: Or bitter sports journalists.

by JLaff on Jul 27, 2006 11:12 PM PDT reply actions  

the new ones are pretty great
And I'm just counting the ones in the last ten minutes!  

I can't wait for the next AN Photo Contest!  (Maybe after the end of the season...?)

by Apricot on Jul 27, 2006 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions  

Thanks
And yeah, after the season sounds great, now that we have more amazing photographers on AN.
Stephen Colbert: "Kids who look up to athletes become athletes themselves."
The Word: Or bitter sports journalists.

by JLaff on Jul 27, 2006 11:38 PM PDT up reply actions  

Some of the choices are cracking me up like crazy.
Everyone's staring at me and probably thinking WTF? LOL. It's past 1AM and I should really be sleeping, but it's so addicting. At least it's summer...
Next Question!

by alamedagirl on Jul 28, 2006 1:13 AM PDT reply actions  

one thing I really enjoy
is to make sacreligious/blasphemous choices.  For example, I just chose Ramon Hernandez over Gandhi.  <shrug>

by rubin sierra on Jul 28, 2006 1:48 AM PDT reply actions  

Welcome back, Mr. 'Cotty
"the poop stain on the collective AN pantalones." -ohad

by ArakSOT on Jul 28, 2006 6:07 AM PDT reply actions  

dagnabbit, Apricot
I didn't kill enough of my precious time last fall?  THANKS A LOT.

I'm glad to see my efforts to pull Mark Ellis' ranking up out of the dungeon paid off, though...  even though it meant doing really difficult things, like voting for him over chocolate...  ;)

"He should have been out for blood, like a two-mouthed bear at a monkey eating contest!" ~ McFood

by Poppy on Jul 28, 2006 6:52 AM PDT reply actions  

Woohoo!
"I almost landed in some lady's lap, which was kinda fun.'' -- Swish

by Sharon on Jul 28, 2006 7:15 AM PDT reply actions  

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something to do this weekend!!!!  Heck, something to do TODAY! :) :) :)
There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Jul 28, 2006 8:52 AM PDT reply actions  

Fortunately for me...
...my work server won't let me access it right now.
"He should have been out for blood, like a two-mouthed bear at a monkey eating contest!" ~ McFood

by Poppy on Jul 28, 2006 9:09 AM PDT up reply actions  

flaming server ashes
You folks did manage to bust the server. :(

It is back, but I have unfortunately (depending on your point of view) lost the voting records. Sorry. You will all get a refund in the mail.

by Apricot on Jul 28, 2006 9:32 AM PDT reply actions  

Good lord, man!
I was an assilla, for chrissakes!
"the poop stain on the collective AN pantalones." -ohad

by ArakSOT on Jul 28, 2006 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions  

lmao
"He should have been out for blood, like a two-mouthed bear at a monkey eating contest!" ~ McFood

by Poppy on Jul 28, 2006 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions  

<gasp>
Do you know how many days it took me to crack the top five? I'll never get those days back!

<sobs>

<eats frozen custard>

<ices wrist>

by Jennifer on Jul 28, 2006 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions  

ugh
rex hudler vs joe morgan

by AmazingAs on Jul 28, 2006 10:57 AM PDT reply actions  

Another one
Shilling vs. Yankees. Who knew I would learn a little bit about myself today?

by eebie on Jul 28, 2006 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions  

the votes are backed up
but I'll have to think of some way to re-merge them.

Actually, it's a little more fun now that it's easier for people to move up the voter standings. It was basically impossible for newcomers to break into the top 20 before.

The big downside for me is that after you vote for a while, the Painful Choices get really really excruciating, and it's not as painful in the early going.

by Apricot on Jul 28, 2006 11:25 AM PDT reply actions  

It's always the PAIRS that get me...
Chocolate and e. coli vs. Rich Harden and Dubya?
"He should have been out for blood, like a two-mouthed bear at a monkey eating contest!" ~ McFood

by Poppy on Jul 28, 2006 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions  

Anna Benson and Monica Bellucci vs...
..Mrs Holly Johnson and Evangeline Lilly?

Everyone's a winner!

"I smell like a meadow." - Yuniesky Betancourt

by Ozzz on Jul 28, 2006 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions  

Anna, ugh.
I see someone has discovered the "Women" category.

by Apricot on Jul 28, 2006 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions  

In every man's life...
...there should be a period punctuated by an affair with someone truly hot, and truly crazy.

She's not a keeper, but man, would she be a great plaything.

"I smell like a meadow." - Yuniesky Betancourt

by Ozzz on Jul 29, 2006 3:13 AM PDT up reply actions  

My painful duo
Cupcakes and Laura Bush vs. Osama Bin Laden & Saidi.

That one ran me out.

by LD on Jul 28, 2006 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions  

Tsk tsk.
No BabyDubbs, but more Moneybutt?  For shame.
Can intangibles exist? Only the ones you can touch.

by salb918 on Jul 28, 2006 1:24 PM PDT reply actions  

Baby W will have her day
Soon I want to put her on the web and have her automatically generate those reports. It was taking too long for me to crank them out by hand.

by Apricot on Jul 28, 2006 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions  

Okay, even though I'm home now...
...I can't sign into the game.  :(
"He should have been out for blood, like a two-mouthed bear at a monkey eating contest!" ~ McFood

by Poppy on Jul 28, 2006 4:18 PM PDT reply actions  

weird
It's working okay for me... did you go to the link in the diary (and not the old one from last year)...?

by Apricot on Jul 28, 2006 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions  

yep... went to the owlmelon link in the diary...
and then clicked "Main Moneybutt Game" on the homepage.  Then it invites me to sign in, so I enter "Poppy" as the public name, and enter the same "private name" I used before... click enter... and it just displays a slightly different-looking version of the sign-in page.  No game.
"He should have been out for blood, like a two-mouthed bear at a monkey eating contest!" ~ McFood

by Poppy on Jul 28, 2006 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions  

I probably broke it last time I played.
The game is going "Oh no, not HER again!"

I should make a new account and try to sneak in...

"He should have been out for blood, like a two-mouthed bear at a monkey eating contest!" ~ McFood

by Poppy on Jul 28, 2006 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions  

LMAO... that actually worked!
"NotPoppy_honest_"
"He should have been out for blood, like a two-mouthed bear at a monkey eating contest!" ~ McFood

by Poppy on Jul 28, 2006 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions  

way to blow your cover
good luck trying to log back on after dinner.  

"NotNotPoppy_NoReally!_"

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Jul 28, 2006 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions  

Wonder how long names can get...
"AbsolutelyNotNotNotPoppyNotNowNotEver"
"He should have been out for blood, like a two-mouthed bear at a monkey eating contest!" ~ McFood

by Poppy on Jul 28, 2006 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions  

{makes appointment with neurologist}
Brain transplant.
"He should have been out for blood, like a two-mouthed bear at a monkey eating contest!" ~ McFood

by Poppy on Jul 28, 2006 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions  

This is cruel...
Huston Street & Gina(Crosby's GF) or Mark Ellis and Bobby Crosby...funny when u think about it
Next Question!

by alamedagirl on Jul 28, 2006 6:15 PM PDT reply actions  

Gahh.
I don't have time for this... I need to sleep... but the clicks just keep on coming. It's amazing how fast 250 votes can go.

Must... close... browser...

by whiteshoes40 on Jul 28, 2006 11:14 PM PDT reply actions  

Ugh
I'm bored!! I want to click moneybutt!! But it won't let me in!!!!!!  :( :( :(
There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Jul 29, 2006 10:10 PM PDT reply actions  

sigh
i've reopened the server, but there is something buggy about it that I don't have time to sort out. You can click away, and your votes are being tracked, but every now and then a certain technical issue comes up and the votes need to be reset.

Sniffle.

Consider this run a beta at your own risk henceforth...

by Apricot on Jul 29, 2006 11:11 PM PDT reply actions  

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