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Re: Town contest voting temporarily closed
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lugnet.town
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Date:
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Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:24:28 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Kevin Wilson writes:
> We have another "spike" problem, this time even more blatant, on Ahui
> Herrera's A&M Train Station. Between last night and this morning, more than
> 30 votes were cast for this model (out of less than 40 total cast) in all
> the special categories. Perhaps someone is trying to make a point, or
> sabotage the contest, (and it could be anyone, I'm not even pointing the
> finger at Ahui here) but it is now obvious that using the honor system just
> isn't going to work, nor is this particular voting engine.
I was wondering how long this would take to happen... It is pretty sad, its
one thing to vote (once) for your own creation but to intentionally sabotage a
contest that is relatively meaning less. By that I mean there are no real
prizes, therefore only pride is at stake, and how can one be proud if they
didn't win legitimately?
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> Thanks to Mark, Shane and Ryan for alerting me to this (and keeping track of
> vote counts).
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> I'm disappointed...no, I'm downright ^&%$^& angry that this is happening.
I'm with yah man...
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> I need to think about the best way to handle the voting so no-one can cheat.
> It will be simple and it will limit the people who can vote - I'll post
> again as soon as I have it sorted out, and we'll start over.
OK here is one thought. How about doing this by E-mail but have a different
person take and tabulate the votes for one catagory only. It is pretty easy to
set up some E-mail forms and have them sent to a spacific person. These people
could be contestants but I would suggest that they only tabulate votes in a
catagory they are not participating in. Therefore I would volunteer to
tabulate a catagory other than Diorama and Small buildings.
This of course is just one suggestion out of many possibilities.
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> Sorry to everyone who must be as disappointed as I am with what's happening,
> it's very sad that even in the Lego community we have our share of #^%&$'s.
Well it happens. Unfortunately some feel that winning is everything even if
you don't win anything.
Eric Kingsley
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