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Skriven 2007-02-08 13:58:22 av Amy Guskin (15244.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Keep those votes for Amy coming...
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>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:18:30 -0500, Methuselah Jones wrote
(in article <Xns98D14A58962FEmethuselahaltgeekorg@216.196.97.131>):

> Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of 
> AaronJB of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated make plain:
> 
>> On Feb 7, 5:08 pm, "Iva" <i...@ptd.net> wrote:
>>> And as a female, I apologize if any other female here is offended by
>>> the term "boobs".  I *know* the guys aren't.  <g>
>> 
>> (I'm male, by way of a lead-in ;)) The term doesn't annoy me.. the
>> fact that posting scantily clad pictures of yourself to something like
>> this (not you, you know what I mean :)) is such an effective way of
>> garnerning votes does disappoint me hugely, for some reason..
>> 
>> Even though it should be expected I guess - sex sells, as they say.
>> 
>> But still, I get strangely worked up every time I see the porn-star-
>> wannabes in the top 10 and not our lovely Amy.
> 
> One thing to keep in mind is that the voting thing is just a huge 
> promotional ploy. At the end, I'm sure all the entrants will be reviewed 
> by the judges, and while they may take the votes into consideration, 
> someone like this:
> 
> http://finessecontest.com/index.php?do=rate&act=profile&id=480
> 
> isn't going to win, no matter what her rating, simply because she 
> couldn't understand the contest rules or the purpose of the campaign.<<

Indeed -- I think that if you scrutinize the rules, there's one item in there 
that says that the purpose of the contest is to "engage the public" (i.e. 
promotion, marketing), and that a panel of professional judges will decide 
the winners.  But at the very beginning, I'd had some conversations with the 
webmaster (when I was having a technical problem), and my feeling is that 
being a high-ranking entrant will get you more notice from them.  That 
they'll very likely start from the top-ranking entries, and try to choose the 
winners from among them.  Personally, even though I'm certainly within the 
rotating top 20 (I can tell because of the frequency with which I pop up in 
the Top Ten), I'm hoping they dig a little deeper, because there are some 
women who entered who really deserve to win, and who are ranking very low 
because they don't have thousands of friends and co-workers voting for them.  
And, early in the contest, when there were less than 100 entries, it was easy 
to rank those people down -- and so they've ended up with low scores that 
really don't reflect the quality of their entries.

The other thing is, they're going to choose ten semi-finalists _first_, and 
ask them to write an essay about themselves (specific topic unknown).  I 
think that it's going to be fairly important to have a good 'story,' and that 
those same women who had so much trouble comprehending the contest rules 
aren't going to be much competition in the way of writing.  :-)

Amy
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