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Skriven 2006-12-27 22:24:17 av Amy Guskin (12996.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: OT: I am "Time" Magazine's "Person of the Year" 
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>> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:26:38 -0500, Wesley Struebing wrote
(in article <56p5p2583g9ac0kupbgpcva4sma7i8114i@4ax.com>):

> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:47:26 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>>> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:19:27 -0500, Amy Guskin wrote
>> (in article <0001HW.C1B7F99E01C299BBF0182648@news.verizon.net>):
>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:11:27 -0500, Richard Fallstrom wrote
>>> (in article <271220060011272988%rick.fallstrom@donobi.net>):
>>> 
>>>> In article <0001HW.C1B6AFB90175482EF0284530@news.verizon.net>, Amy
>>>> Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:33:21 -0500, Ranger Elenopa wrote
>>>>> (in article <1167046401.401331.175460@48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>):
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hey Amy!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You're back in the top ten. Come on everybody; VOTE!
>>>>>> (and don't forget to vote 1 for everyone else)<<
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, Hillary!  I was really surprised to find myself at #7 this 
>>>>> morning; 
>>>>> I 
>>>>> didn't think much action would happen at _all_ over the holidays, since 
>>>>> people were probably dealing with family and presents and stuff, and 
>>>>> probably 
>>>>> not thinking about voting.  So now I just have to keep myself on the Top 
>>>>> Ten 
>>>>> for a week (the contest ends on Sunday at 11:59 PM)!<<
>> 
>> D'OH!  I was looking at the Finesse contest rules today, and discovered 
>> that 
>> they have changed the contest period.  It does _not_ end on New Year's Eve 
>> at 
>> 11:59 PM; it now runs through February 15!  I'm banging my head against the 
>> wall over this; I was REALLY looking forward to it ending this week, 
>> because 
>> the pressure and anxiety over the damned score is killing me!
>> 
>> Sigh.  Anyway, please keep voting me "10"s if you are so inclined.  :-p  
>> Thanks.
>> 
> {Whew!}  We can do no less, m'dear! (and at this time - 2:25PM MST -
> you're still out of the top 10...sorry!) <<

Actually, that's okay -- I have a theory...  I think that it's fine for me to 
_not_ be on the Top Ten page until almost the end of the contest, so if I'm 
twelfth or fifteenth right now, that's okay.  Because if you're on the Top 
Ten page, you get people's attention; people who can vote you "10"s, _and_ 
people who can vote you "1"s.  Unless you're on the Top Ten page, the only 
way people can find you is via a direct link, because there is only way to 
browse the other entries, and it is random (that's the "rate the entries" 
button).  With so many entries there now (something like 370), most people 
will not go through and rank all of the entries.  They'll rank the Top Ten 
page, and maybe a handful of others before becoming bored.  So, it's likely 
that when you are _not_ on the Top Ten page, the only people who are ranking 
you are friends, people who are ranking you a "10."  Casual surfers who don't 
like your look, or friends of women on the Top Ten page, aren't going to be 
able to find you to vote you down, except by random chance.

So I figure that I can stay under the radar and be eleventh, or twelfth, or 
fifteenth, and then with some luck and some help, zoom up a few percentage 
points at the very last.  With over 6500 votes, it'll be harder for me to 
_lose_ points at the very end, unless several dozen or a hundred people 
happen to really dislike my image and want to suddenly vote me down.

I hope that made some sense!

Amy
-- 
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Vote for me to be a Finesse hair model!
Direct link to a "10" vote for me: http://tinyurl.com/y49w3n
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