eldusto84 said:
Goodness, I can't vote for my own edit and now I can't even tell people about the contest?
For clarity, I've just crunched some "poll data" (I'm in a nerdy election-time mood
) so you can perhaps understand better what Frink and others are talking about...
Of the 19 people who voted for your Hobbit edit:
- 11 where "established" site members (e.g. they've either been here for years,
or have simply been active on the site in any way besides voting. Even a single post would do)
- of the other 8 voters...
- 3 signed up to the site just to review your edit, immediately after you made a post on your blog suggesting they do so last month
- and the last 5 signed up the day you put up the other blog post asking them to vote for your edit. Two of these five logged into this site for less than 93 seconds, voted then left
Of the 15 people who voted for JobWillins Batman/Superman edit:
- 13 where "established" site members (In the same way as I described above)
- the other two are new members who signed up in the last month or so
As you can see from that data, more "established" site members have actually voted for JobWillins edit so far. So I hope you can understand that driving people here just to review or vote for you edit, can have the effect of skewing what is supposed to be a fun poll. We haven't got any rules against this and I know you were just trying to spread the word about your edit but like I say, please just bare this info in mind in the future.
Lastly, I'd just like to make it clear that everybody is welcome to vote in FEOTM, however long they've been here and I wouldn't want to discourage anybody's enthusiasm or participation. It's great to have new members! In other words...
eldusto84 said:
This site is a great resource and deserves to have its user base grow.
EDIT: I see now that @"addiesin" beat me to the data crunching. Although we disagree slightly on the specific final figures, if not the conclusions... hey that's politics folks!