February '08 Elimination

[kiz_paws]

Those 3 groups I outlined arent all-inclusive, obviously. They are just the 3 main types of people I see on these forums.

Well, at the risk of your annoyance to my reply, you need to get out there more before you insist on those three categories listed (even though you did say they were not all-inclusive).

Categorizing + generalizing is for cool people.

This has to be a funny, so we'll let it go at that.

[APEist]

Get out there more?

It's an internet forums, LOL.

[Granny5]

7 stories.
15 votes.
One story that doesn't even have ONE vote.
What's wrong with this picture?
Where are the voters?
If you take too long to make up your mind,
the clock is ticking and you'll run out of time!

OH, and let's say all 7 authors voted, and since nobody knows who they be, we dunno if any of them did, but if we give that, that means only 8 other people did! Isn't that pathetic? Isn't that sad? Literature Forum? Hello? Are we to busy to bother with our own activities? Wake up and smell the ink or something!

Pendragon

Thank you Pen. It is sad that more folks don't take a little time to read and vote. I know everyone worked hard to get their stories done in time to enter and I wish more would read them. But, you're preaching to the choir on this thread. Maybe you should start a new thread about voting??

[AuntShecky]

I do believe that more folks would vote if there were a way to keep everyone else from knowing whom they voted for.
We need a secret ballot.

[DickZ]

I do believe that more folks would vote if there were a way to keep everyone else from knowing whom they voted for.
We need a secret ballot.

As a newcomer, it seems there are valid arguments either way - secret or open ballots. From my perspective, however, I like to see how the voting is going - by name. Maybe I just don't understand the situation, but why is it a bad thing if someone else sees that I voted for this story or for that one?

[TheFifthElement]

As I understand it the voting is 'open' i.e you can see who's voted for what, because there have been attempts in the past to rig the voting where the votes have been anonymous. I don't see any reason why people shouldn't be able to see who's voted for what - ultimately all that says is what people have liked best.

[Scheherazade]

As Fifth mentioned in her post, we have public polls to prevent any possible poll-rigging attempts.

Since the identity of the writers are not known, it matters little that we can see who has voted for which story here. It is obvious that we are voting for the story we like; not for its writer.

As a side note, I think contributors should vote for the story they like too (for their own if that is the one they like best). By withholding their vote whenever they submit a story, they are, in a way, revealing their identities, are they not?

[Captain Pike]

Ho' up now, let's go easy here for a minute. I hung around here a while before I even realized you could post. There is a ton of good reading on this site, that's how I found it.
While you might think having anonymous voting might bring more votes, I don't think it's true. Last year, I think it may have been a mistake, but one round did: not show the voter's ID, and still, there were only a handful of votes.
The truth is for me, I haven't read all the stories yet. And I don't know about anyone else, but, trying to decide the better among a group of stories is more about me, at the moment I voted, then the story's merits on their own. It's like saying, "banana, pineapple, mango, Apple, orange.., pick the best.", right? On the other hand, we all think we know what's good.

But DickZ and APEish; don't be too hasty to judge the people here -- this place has made me a better person. I mean if this group isn't the set of {what's-good-about-humankind }, it's pretty damn close.

Hang around..._P.

[Scheherazade]

Going once...

[Virgil]

Got my vote in!. Closer to the deadline than I should have.

[PrinceMyshkin]

This

But DickZ and APEish; don't be too hasty to judge the people here -- this place has made me a better person. I mean if this group isn't the set of {what's-good-about-humankind }, it's pretty damn close.

brought me close to tears (manly ones, of course....).

[kiz_paws]

Yay Cap'n Pike!

I guess Scher is right about the reasons for having a public vote (as opposed to secret ballots), I didn't think of people rigging (how pathetic, really).

I wrote what I did regarding what I 'thought' would be a solution to a problem with some folks feeling that it was all a popularity contest in the end. Which it is not, how could it be when the submissions come without name...

Anyhow, I hate to see hurt feelings, so I guess as the decent group that we are, we need to find a way to get more folks voting. All those stories are worthy of a read, the rest of the site can really get a glimpse of what good writing is all about, if they'd only give it a few moments of their time.

And if I can sneak in one more comment -- every story submitted was stellar writing -- chosing a 'favorite' was the most difficult thing I've done.

Cheers, people! K♥z

[Scheherazade]

Going twice...

[Pendragon]

Good ol' Cap Pike! God Bless him! If he only could influence voters! Only 20 this round!

[Scheherazade]

Still going twice...