Clarification for 2008 "Otterville Election"
OK, I wanted to revisit this post from neimen after the last election:
Originally Posted by neimen
Mod note: The admins and mods of the Other forum have been discussing this election thing for awhile and we've come to some conclusions. Although there is no overall sanctioning of these elections, since you people seem to enjoy it we'll allow it but due to problems we've been having (wrt how the votes have been going [see #1] and the general candor the elections threads have taken) there's three significant changes that'll go into effect from here on out...
1) Anyone caught signing up for or using multiple accounts to vote in the election will be suspended for ONE YEAR! If this person signs up with another account during that suspension they will be BANNED. No excuses of "spouse/relative/friend who just came over" registered and voted will be accepted. 2) Votes from members who only joined DVD Talk in order to vote will be removed. 3) Custom titles will no longer be given out to the winner. The winner will be able to put their position in their location or signature if they want. Thanks I'd think it would be much more practical just to ignore all of the election shenanigans (I mean, who cares if someone takes this shit seriously enough to go out and get their cousin's nephew's girlfriend to register and vote?) and just allow the winner to get a custom avatar and/or signature. What is the harm in that? How could that be a big deal? But failing that, if the mods and admins want to clamp down on election "fraud", that's OK with me... but getting at least a custom title out of it seems like a very, very, incredibly small concession. Of course, we could just resolve the whole matter by making me President for Life... but considering that the post-election poll was evenly split between my term being either the Era of Shame or the Era of Unspeakable Evil... maybe there's not a lot of popular support for that idea. :( |
That's too bad that custom titles won't be given out anymore.
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Yet another failure of the mojo administration.
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Originally Posted by NCMojo
go out and get their cousin's nephew's girlfriend to register and vote? (
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i missed the no custom title post last year
but mojo has a title :hscratch: i didnt know we had issues we #1 or #2.. never heard of anyone creating multiple accounts to vote -ohbfrank- but #3 :down: |
Yeah, baby. Sexy Groucho is only in this for the custom title. The ladies love it! Mmm-hmm.
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Originally Posted by twikoff
i missed the no custom title post last year
but mojo has a title :hscratch: i didnt know we had issues we #1 or #2.. never heard of anyone creating multiple accounts to vote -ohbfrank- but #3 :down: |
Originally Posted by twikoff
i didnt know we had issues we #1 or #2.. never heard of anyone creating multiple accounts to vote -ohbfrank-
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Originally Posted by VinVega
My understanding is that it did happen last year. A number of "new" accounts were started up at or around the election and never posted but voted in the election.
And in any case... OK, if the mods and admins want to go all Crawford v. Marion County, that's fine with me. But to volunteer to do all of that extra work and then say, no, we don't want to spend 5 minutes changing user titles... that makes no sense. |
Mojo makes a strong case. I'd be curious as to the reasoning behind this.
It's almost like anything that makes Otter unique is slowly eroding away. |
Originally Posted by NCMojo
Yeah, but how is that a really big deal???
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I would suggest anyone voting in the election poll, must have several posts under their belt. It can't just be a drone account to stuff the ballot box. The bogus accounts signing up just to vote make more work for the mods.
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I agree with #1 and #2, but, as others have said, don't understand #3.
I don't think I can count any higher than that, so please don't put any more conditions on the election. |
Originally Posted by VinVega
Signing up a second, or fifth account is a violation of the forum rules.
Originally Posted by VinVega
I would suggest anyone voting in the election poll, must have several posts under their belt. It can't just be a drone account to stuff the ballot box. The bogus accounts signing up just to vote make more work for the mods.
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When I win, can I have the title of "Empress" instead of president? Thanks.
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You know - there are members (not including mojo and myself) that have custom titles. I don't mind, I'm just sayin'.....
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Speaking of custom titles, isn't it supposed to be Otterfarm?
oh, and I'd like to add my support for keeping custom titles. :wave: |
Yes - I agree - Mojo and I should keep our custom titles indefinatly.....
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Pres Emeritus / VP Emeritus? :shrug:
Of course retirement will just be a ruse as the strings will continue to be pulled from behind the curtain... ;) |
So... don't these threads in Feedback get read by mods and admins? Can I get some kind of quasi-official reply?
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quasi-official reply
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Thanks, pilot. I knew I could count on you. :up:
So you're going to change the user titles for our winners, right? Sweet. :clap: |
negative. i was thinking more of the lines of making the winners post count reset to zero and suspending them for a week ;)
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Aww, come on, pilot. Don't you get it? Now that RandyC has stopped posting here on a regular basis... the position of "fun, cool admin" is wide open! Don't you want to become the new RandyC? Be a sport, pilot.
-pray- |
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