Woobius Eye: A few good men

http://www.vodafonemobileclicks.com/blog/uk/126/woobius_eye_a_few_good_men/

by swombat • 17 years ago

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thearchitectsam• 17 years ago

good luck!

dkersten3• 17 years ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

jacquesm5• 17 years ago

I'm cool with the idea, it's nice and I really hope that you will succeed.

Not cool to attempt to rig the vote though.

swombat3• 17 years ago

Rig the vote? What do you mean?

jacquesm5• 17 years ago

At the bottom the writer asks HNers to vote for their submission.

"So this is my appeal to you, the Hacker News community. Please vote for us here (the vote closes on Friday). The public vote is only part of the deal, but it makes a difference. You can make a difference."

chaosmachine• 17 years ago

Stating your case and asking people to vote for you is pretty standard procedure in any election.

jacquesm5• 17 years ago

Yes, that is true. But in an election the people that vote normally have some kind of interest in the outcome of the vote.

To ask a large number of outsiders who have otherwise no interest in the vote to come and vote for you to me seems to make the whole thing into a popularity contest, whoever has access to the largest communities will win the vote, regardless of the merit of the various candidates.

I don't think it is 'proper' to use the HN audience as a way to swing a vote one way or the other. But that's just my feeling, and judging by the moderation so far I'm in the minority with that ;).

chrismear• 17 years ago

Drawing people's attention to a vote and promoting yourself isn't vote rigging in any sense. Vote rigging is tricking people to vote for you, or directly manipulating the voting mechanism.

Woobius Eye: A few good men

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