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[sje46]

This poll was *not* thought out.

First off, before you have a poll, you have to create the topic at least some time before the voting starts. This is so people can discuss potential issues before people start voting on it. In my opinion, the vote should be stopped *now*.

Secondly,

"IMPORTANT: Additionally, the big three (Marble Hornets, Tribe Twelve and Everyman Hybrids) will be awarded with an HONORARY DIAMOND TALL MAN - as they are so popular they would completely flood the poll "

If they are that popular, that's because they're *really* good. It is *completely* unfair to take them out just because they're really popular. And the fact that they are the most popular doesn't mean they're the best either. Look at how many people think EmH is better than MH, even though MH has like ten times the amount of viewers? To ensure that series don't get an unfair advantage due to their popularity, you should require that everyone has watched everything in the category. That way they will at least be informed. It won't be like the Time Person of the Year poll where everyone votes on Lady Gaga without any idea who Mohamed Bouazizi is.

This is a fantastic opportunity to let people know about alternate blogs/vlogs, but if you're just going to say "you must watch everything to vote on anything" people are just going to flat out *ignore* that because the criteria to vote is too high.

What you *should* have are actual nominations. Only require that people watch the series that are actually worth something. Make it the top 10 or something, instead of "all of them". That way people can actually manage to watch all of the and be informed before voting.

You can have a "best newcomer" category as well.

And what about "scariest moment"?

Also, people should be able to vote on the vlogs without reading all the blogs. You can require that people watch all of them for the best all around series.

I'm sorry, but it seems like you, Anonymousity, just came up with all these rules and categories yourself without any input from any one else. It's a great idea and all...but you're really not being democratic about it. Let's scrap the current vote and do this properly. Who's with me?

[Noonem]

someone who actually cares and didn't just start this out of boredom should do this type of thing. Otherwise, as you can see, a huge fucking mess.

[GameGodOfAll]

I'd suggest a nomination topic. Get each category down to 5 and then have people vote on those 5.

[Anonymousity]

@ sje: See, I also thought about this idea of nominations, but that would force the voter to watch through what has been nominated, which, at times, is very hard due to length and the time of the individual. Also, nobody could check out if the voters do actually watch the nominees or not (the Academy Awards have been criticized many times that they do not guarantee all their members saw all the nominees).
It could be a pro with the various blogs, as there are so many - but again, this could also leave out the possible favorite of voter AB ("My favorites aren't included, but BLOG-A is OK, I guess...") or the time issue of the vlogs.
Also, I never intended to imply people had to "watch everything", but rather leave it open to their taste and time to decide which series they like. You cannot watch and read every series out (and this probably goes with nominees for some busy posters).

As I said, I am keen on having this discussion go on, as some very interesting discussion on the matter have already started, and I'd be glad to move the deadline even further back to allow the ongoing discussions to come to solution.

As for the big three - as I said, the June 1 2010 date still sits fine with me -it is one year ago, so the ones open for consideration all started not too way back. If the public would like to see TT included, then I will gladly do this.

And if needed, I'd be also fine with keeping this to discussion and then opening a new thread once things are settled. But yeah, I want to keep this open to you guys to decide and discuss.

[The Kempest]

[Anonymousity]

Well, figuratively speaking, it's:

JUNE 1st 2010 - JUNE 1st 2011

Then again, as you see, there is much discussion currently going on, and before I further continue, I'd like to see these issues being discussed.

Oh, and also, if somebody comes up with a better way of doing this, then I'd be happy to hand it over to somebody. So, maybe we should put this on a hiatus and see what everybody thinks.

[qaqa]

I don't need to be lectured about reading more blogs, and I certainly don't need an awards ceremony set up just to try and force me to read them.

[awakeasaurusrex]

[qaqa]

It's not that there are not good blogs to seek out, it's that this "awards" chicanery is not the appropriate venue in which to present them to someone and the entire hamhanded strategy behind it is obnoxious and transparent. Just call this the "Read More Blog Awards " or "Blog Awareness Awards" or "Be More Like Slender Nation Awards," but don't try and tell me it's something else. There are some blogs I bother with, but I'm not going to be railroaded into any more by anyone.

[awakeasaurusrex]

[Josh Rallus]

Is this voting thing actually going down? If so, the hell do you mean by special effects in a blog?

Either way,

I'd like to nominate the "Angel's Game" for best ending in a Slendervlog.

ohwait

[DaLadybugMan]

[Chukwa]

DaLadyBugMan = Epitome of maturity.

[SublimeInsomnia]

Hey, LadyBug, calm down. Look, I get that you're pissed off by the underexposure that the blogosphere gets, and you're perfectly entitled to be, but you're not helping the case by being a dick to anyone who doesn't read the blogs, any more than these awards are helping by forcing people to read blogs to vote. Seriously, calm the fuck down and stop being so childish.

[qaqa]