GB Hall of Fame Round Ten (Last Round For Now)

[jomar]

At least the narcissist is not winning.

Halle-fucking-lujah!

429, 2/12.

And who the fuck are you?

250, 12/13

 

[pink]

these numbers are crazy... I mean seriously. I don't know that I have spoken with 90 people in the entirety of my tenure here. Something is dodgy here.

There aren't even 90 people on Lit who like me.

 

[Killswitch]

There aren't even 90 people on Lit who like me.

90 accounts do.

 

[Beco]

Nasty, shitty fucking thing to say.

You've a long road ahead of you (maybe) and who knows who'll be there for you at the end? Karma is a smart cunt.

He doesnt understand the concept.....

 

[RobDownSouth]

He doesnt understand the concept.....

I understand the concept perfectly. I happen not to believe in "karma". If other folks do, and it makes them feel better, that's just ducky.

p.s. please don't ascribe positions to me. Queerbait gets very jealous.

 

[spacekowboy]

I'm going to take this opportunity to go ahead and ask that I be removed from consideration from the HOF. I truly do appreciate every last one of the honest votes that I have gotten and I thank you all for them. I think we can all agree that something strange is afoot. Those numbers are far too inflated to be real. I can't in good conscience accept an honor that would include me with the likes of Problem Child and all the others that I admire from here if the votes and numbers are not valid. I'm not going to ask anyone else to follow suit, that is up to everyone individually. I just know that I would not feel right about accepting the honor. I respect the process and the others named to the hall ahead of me.

Again, thank you for the votes and the nomination.

 

[Beco]

I understand the concept perfectly. I happen not to believe in "karma". If other folks do, and it makes them feel better, that's just ducky.

p.s. please don't ascribe positions to me. Queerbait gets very jealous.

Sure thing Walt....

 

[Garnate]

I'm going to take this opportunity to go ahead and ask that I be removed from consideration from the HOF. I truly do appreciate every last one of the honest votes that I have gotten and I thank you all for them. I think we can all agree that something strange is afoot. Those numbers are far too inflated to be real. I can't in good conscience accept an honor that would include me with the likes of Problem Child and all the others that I admire from here if the votes and numbers are not valid. I'm not going to ask anyone else to follow suit, that is up to everyone individually. I just know that I would not feel right about accepting the honor. I respect the process and the others named to the hall ahead of me.

Again, thank you for the votes and the nomination.

Whether shit is foul or not, you deserve to be in it just as much as anyone else so who cares?

 

[Adre]

This is funny.

 

[Killswitch]

This is an internet forum board and it's round ten. TEN!

It ain't Cooperstown man.

Chill.

 

[Queersetti]

I'm going to take this opportunity to go ahead and ask that I be removed from consideration from the HOF. I truly do appreciate every last one of the honest votes that I have gotten and I thank you all for them. I think we can all agree that something strange is afoot. Those numbers are far too inflated to be real. I can't in good conscience accept an honor that would include me with the likes of Problem Child and all the others that I admire from here if the votes and numbers are not valid. I'm not going to ask anyone else to follow suit, that is up to everyone individually. I just know that I would not feel right about accepting the honor. I respect the process and the others named to the hall ahead of me.

Again, thank you for the votes and the nomination.

The numbers are inflated for everybody, though. Even the last place candidate has more votes than some of the winners got in previous rounds. Maybe someone is manipulating the voting, or maybe more people are voting because it's the last round. In any case, there are obviously plenty of people who think you do belong.

 

[trysail]

Are you sure?

I've heard this:

"I want you to breathe through your eyelids."

- Annie Savoy, offering her unique pitching tips to LaLoosh.

☝

★★★★★

​

 

[eyer]

It's a good thing you decided to end GB Idol this week, Scabcrest...

...this sh!t is getting way too funny.

 

[pointless]

it also includes me, so... you know.

 

[Mr Noone]

these numbers are crazy... I mean seriously. I don't know that I have spoken with 90 people in the entirety of my tenure here. Something is dodgy here.

I voted for people I never spoke to, only read. That's not a pre-requisit.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Wrong Element]

these numbers are crazy... I mean seriously. I don't know that I have spoken with 90 people in the entirety of my tenure here. Something is dodgy here.

I had some of the same feelings about my own election. Unless a couple of dozen people I used to be friendly with came back to the GB for the first time since the Bush presidency specifically to support me, I don't know how I got the votes I did.

But I'm not losing sleep over it. I haven't taken any of this especially seriously, never expected to be considered, didn't campaign, and didn't even mention to Arte that I had been nominated. So you might as well just accept your votes for what they are...uh, whatever they are.

 

[Que]

I had some of the same feelings about my own election. Unless a couple of dozen people I used to be friendly with came back to the GB for the first time since the Bush presidency specifically to support me, I don't know how I got the votes I did.

But I'm not losing sleep over it. I haven't taken any of this especially seriously, never expected to be considered, didn't campaign, and didn't even mention to Arte that I had been nominated. So you might as well just accept your votes for what they are...uh, whatever they are.

I don't think it is a mark of friendship in the vein of "lets hang out" so much as the camaraderie version. Not that I am going to go point-by-point through my own reasoning on voting, but:

I wouldn't say you and I have interacted that much on a positive note or otherwise. We are, from time to time, posting in some of the same threads, I find your points reasonably insightful and pithy in ways I am incapable of being, even if I don't happen to agree. I voted for people that post remarkks that don't make me wish I had those 10 or 15 seconds back. I also voted for historical figures that have become part of the fabric, even if I read very little of their posts. If I know of them well enough to have formed an opinion of my poverty at not having met them, they are in.

If you look at the number of people on the GB at any given time versus people posting at all, there are a lot of lurkers that find some of the posts interesting, and choose not to add to the din in the cafeteria.

I get PMs from lurkers on things I have posted that I have never seen post anywhere. Usually on matters where I have shared something personal. Not so much on general pontificating.

 

[pete]

^^^This. I know I'm a relative noob here, but I think she's right.

Maybe he's regretting the promise he made if inducted...

aha! good detective work, red.

 

[unregistered]

 

[pete]

What about the nomination of my hair that everyone ignored? Hmmm?

wut?

 

[Wrong Element]

What about the nomination of my hair that everyone ignored? Hmmm?

It's up for a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

I don't think it is a mark of friendship in the vein of "lets hang out" so much as the camaraderie version. Not that I am going to go point-by-point through my own reasoning on voting, but:

I wouldn't say you and I have interacted that much on a positive note or otherwise. We are, from time to time, posting in some of the same threads, I find your points reasonably insightful and pithy in ways I am incapable of being, even if I don't happen to agree. I voted for people that post remarkks that don't make me wish I had those 10 or 15 seconds back. I also voted for historical figures that have become part of the fabric, even if I read very little of their posts. If I know of them well enough to have formed an opinion of my poverty at not having met them, they are in.

If you look at the number of people on the GB at any given time versus people posting at all, there are a lot of lurkers that find some of the posts interesting, and choose not to add to the din in the cafeteria.

I get PMs from lurkers on things I have posted that I have never seen post anywhere. Usually on matters where I have shared something personal. Not so much on general pontificating.

I think it almost inevitably comes down to friendship as a tiebreaker, unless you just want to vote for everyone you're allowed to (and voting for everybody is essentially like not voting at all). With a few exceptions -- a couple of people who I think, while "famous," have been a net negative influence on the board; and some others who just never seemed all that significant to me (apologies again to LeahLo519) -- the vast majority of nominees have been broadly "deserving" in my opinion.

So I've been voting, for the most part, on the basis of who I've enjoyed interacting with. But there are quite a few I haven't voted for where I've felt bad about it. It's the age-old peril of the Lit List Thread: no matter how diligent you are, you're always going to leave someone out.

 

[artemesia_g]

It's up for a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.






I think it almost inevitably comes down to friendship as a tiebreaker, unless you just want to vote for everyone you're allowed to (and voting for everybody is essentially like not voting at all). With a few exceptions -- a couple of people who I think, while "famous," have been a net negative influence on the board; and some others who just never seemed all that significant to me (apologies again to LeahLo519) -- the vast majority of nominees have been broadly "deserving" in my opinion.

So I've been voting, for the most part, on the basis of who I've enjoyed interacting with. But there are quite a few I haven't voted for where I've felt bad about it. It's the age-old peril of the Lit List Thread: no matter how diligent you are, you're always going to leave someone out.

I only voted for people I've slept with.

And Garnate.

 

[Que]

You are quite right. I would guess I voted for an average of about three per round and if you look at the numbers that's about the average of votes cast for number of voters.

It is much like the "choose up to three of five" votes on a local ballot for say, school board.

If I feel very strongly about one candidate needing to break out of the pack, or other candidates to be left behind, that would influence my vote since your one vote for one candidate impacts that singular candidate to a greater extent.

Since I view myself as an itinerant interloper her, I felt it a good way to show support for people that take the time to be interesting. Sort of somewhere between ride-or-die for a candidate, and a week "like" button.

I suspect that in the range of people being people, some that tend to be pleasers may have voted for everyone on the slate, which is statistically meaningless, but it is still a pat on the back, no?

 

[Garnate]

I only voted for people I've slept with.

And Garnate.

Whom you will eventually sleep with I tell myself so I can sleep at night.