FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

[pokelda]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

I feel like i should tally but my mind just stalls whenever i try to get around to it.

[OrganisM]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

SOMEBODY CALL THE WAHHHMBULANCE

As much as I don't identify with the negative votes I get, I don't whine about it, nor do I see it as a personal attack on myself, especially since it's my choice to project what image I want, intentional or no.

I personally think you're one of the most terrible posters I've seen on any forum, and I'm tired of your constant whining as if anybody cares. Shut up and take the votes, and if you really care about them that much, then shape up.

I don't care about votes or awards, nor do I particularly care about perception. But I don't want to be a callous asshole all the time, so I'm working on that. And I'm not whining and pleading about it, either.

[Litodude]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

I should ban you

brb changing a choice in a certain category

[devonin]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

Just putting emphasis on this because one person actually did go back and edit their post a couple hours after Tibs said no more votes were being allowed. If any of you guys tallied the votes right after Tibs said that, your totals may be off compared to whoever hasn't tallied votes yet.

Oh, and when should we be expecting the results?

For one, I want to think that even if we lock it, people can still edit posts, just not post new ones.

For two, if numbers of votes don't match up at the end in a way that suggests someone was editing votes after the deadline, some of us have the magical power to actually look through the log of post edits a la wikipedia, and see what was changed.

[OrganisM]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

When a thread is locked, editing is also disabled. At least, no locked thread has let me edit my previous messages in this forum.

[nuclearsamurai]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

Dev's a mod, so he doesn't know we can't edit after a lock.

D:

[HammyMcSquirrel]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

For one, I want to think that even if we lock it, people can still edit posts, just not post new ones.

What Organism said. Regular users can't edit their posts in a locked thread.

For two, if numbers of votes don't match up at the end in a way that suggests someone was editing votes after the deadline, some of us have the magical power to actually look through the log of post edits a la wikipedia, and see what was changed.

Oh cool, I didn't know that could be done. Just figured it would save you guys a little more work from having to deal with edited posts if this was locked and discussion continued in that other thread. I'd imagine that despite being able to see what has been edited, you especially wouldn't want people to go back and edit their votes at this point. =P Ah well, whatever works. Thanks for the response.

[Relambrien]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

Alright I went ahead and tallied everything for my categories. If anyone edits their post now, I will slit your virtual throat.

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR NEXT YEAR, VOTERS

1. Telling us that you changed your vote means nothing. If the other talliers are like me, then they didn't keep track of who voted for what people. And since normal users can't see edits, we don't know what votes to take away in order to update our tally properly. In short, DON'T CHANGE YOUR VOTE, EVER. PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO IT SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO.

2) Use the entire goddamn list provided. Don't remove any categories. Each of us has specific categories that we need to tally, and it's more convenient when we can see exactly where they are. Removing blank votes isn't doing anyone a favor. By the same token, my preference is that you leave a non-vote blank, so I don't think you're voting for someone. I don't know about the others, though.

3) Either quote or copy the list directly. I don't know how people wound up with non-bolded lists, because even if you quoted the one TRD provided, the bold tags are RIGHT THERE. It makes it a whole lot easier to tell where votes are when the category is bolded.

4) USE FULL NAMES. If you don't give the full username or song you're voting for, there could be confusion about what you mean. For example, the winner of at least one category this year is unclear because one poster used an ambiguous name that may or may not refer to one of the possible winners. It also took me a while to realize that an abbreviation I'd been tallying wasn't a full name, so I had to merge two tallies. That could **** up who wins.

5) DON'T VOTE FOR THINGS YOU'RE NOT SURE ABOUT. Yeah, this isn't supposed to be some super-serious-business here, but voting just to fill a spot on your vote only wastes the talliers' time. It also results in early closing of voting when you vote for stupid ****. Example: This year. In addition, giving reasoning behind your vote doesn't do anything. We still only count the number of votes, we're not going to fix the vote because of some shining gem of logic about who should win a category. It's a waste of your time and ours.

6) READ THE GODDAMN RULES. People editing posts, voting for themselves, etc. It's retarded. Once again, we're not looking for a perfect scientific election, and some joke votes can be well-received, but only if done tastefully and obviously, and only if they're actually funny. Your best bet is to just do your vote the way the rules say.

This doesn't apply to all voters, and there were many people whose votes were a cinch to tally because they actually followed the rules, but jesus christ this year's voting sucked because of the ones who didn't do what they were supposed to.

Basically, just follow all the rules in the OP, put some thought into your votes, and do what you can to make it easier on the talliers, and you'll have your results a lot faster than you would otherwise. Because then we'll be able to tally as the vote goes on, and all the counting can be done just a little while after the vote closes.

[robertsona]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

ps if you vote for a guy in hall of fame and we dont like him ur dumb

[TheRapingDragon]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

Oh, and when should we be expecting the results?

Devonin has yet to PM me his tallies of everything, same with pokelda. I'm hoping they correlate so I don't have to go and tally everything myself because, to be honest, I don't have the time or patience right now.

Once they PM me their tallies I'll strum up some patience and write up a decent results thread.

[sarahxjane]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

I can't wait to see the results.


I'm glad you'll be putting it in a separate thread.

[ieatyourlvllol]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

You should probably also list alternates / honorable mentions. For some categories, such as Friendliest Poster, instead of there being a clear winner, it was a complete tossup between two equally deserving candidates.

[Nyokou]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

And I'm sure your vote of Least Helpful Poster was purely objective. Least friendly makes sense, but I do help from time to time while there are people who don't ever help at all. That is, I'm not complaining, but I don't see how you can complain about objectivity in voting when you're doing the same type of thing.

What the hell? I never said anything about voting subjectively or objectively. Besides, I was talking about the more stupid votes that didn't even make sense. From what I've seen from you, you're not very helpful at all with carrying on conservations. Your sole purpose of posting in that Vet thread was to cause drama and you got it. Besides, I couldn't think of any other assholes that I would have nominated for least helpful.

[Grandiagod]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

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[pokelda]

Re: FFR Awards 2008 – Voting

/snicker