Text 11876, 62 rader
Skriven 2007-02-09 13:23:12 av Jeffrey MacHott (15317.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 11865 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (15306.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Keep those votes for Amy coming...
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Amy Guskin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:40:17 -0500, Jeffrey MacHott wrote
> (in article <A2Syh.203781$L62.123299@fe12.news.easynews.com>):
> 
>> Wesley Struebing wrote:
>>> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:18:30 -0600, Methuselah Jones
>>> <methuselah@altgeek.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>> I have more problems with the one (consistently in the top 10 when I
>>> go visit) who has posted a single picture.
>>>
>>> BTW, is here a way to vote a "one" for all contestants, except for our
>>> dear Amy, at one shot?
>> I've been filling up a couple of favorites folders in Firefox with 
>> 1-votes (and a 10 vote), and then just selecting "Open all in tabs".  If 
>> I can figure out where the folders are kept on my hard drive, I can zip 
>> up what I have and email it to whoever's interested.
>>
>> That said, when I open 40 websites at once, I can almost hear my 
>> computer chewing on all the data trying to swallow it all at once.<<
> 
> Ha!  That's showing some real initiative, youngster!  ;-)    And here I 
> thought all of you Gen-Y hacker/cracker types would just be using proxy 
> browser services... 
> 
> Amy

I'm a LibArts nerd, not an egghead techie.  I've broken enough computers 
in 10 years to be comfortable opening one up and poking around inside, 
but my in-depth knowledge of how software works pretty  much ends with 
the mass-shortcut trick in Firefox. :*D

-- 
--Jeffrey MacHott

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