I do declare . . .

[BlackShanglan]

Well, there can only be, at the most, 10 nominees, because that's how many slots a poll can have.

Laurel usually selects the 5 with more nominations but, in cases of the Poet and Writer of the year, she has been known to pick more. I remember that two years ago there were 9 nominees for poet. But yes, always based on who has more nominations.

Ah, cheers. Hadn't realized that. Thanks for clarifying -

Shanglan

 

[The_Fool]

Well, there can only be, at the most, 10 nominees, because that's how many slots a poll can have.

Laurel usually selects the 5 with more nominations but, in cases of the Poet and Writer of the year, she has been known to pick more. I remember that two years ago there were 9 nominees for poet. But yes, always based on who has more nominations.

You are such a smartie pants....

 

[mismused]

Hmm! Perhaps . . .

Hmmm, let's see....

The following people have nominated brightlyiburn (the number after their name is the number of posts):

Jenna_in_Dreamland - 4
missi3378 - 3
ZydigoDancer - 1 I really want to tell them that they can't spell worth shit
anaeish - 1
elhund - 1
hoooofie - 1
laurapalmer - 1
Doc6130 - 2
ComeBackToMe - 2
so__kissme - 2
blue_berry - 1
Demorie edited in

for most of them, their only posts have been in the awards threads, I checked.

For patricia51:

willyb220 - 1
Captain Midnight - 1
writingdragon - 2
Papabear49 - 3
Foux Pas - 2
jennianydots - 2
Dotrice1 - 3 notice a similarity between this name and the one before?
beetle_221 - 1
the Troubador - 2
Kanga40 - 5
GoodWifey - 2
Losthead - 1
Harddaysknight - 1
Chagrined - 1 edited in

ditto for where the posts are.


Is there anything that Laurel can do about this? For the people that are honestly nominated, this really sucks monkey ass.

===================

There's something to this, or no doubt there's much to it, however. . .

I think I espied one name on this list that is very legitimate, and that is Dotrice1, who, if I'm not mistaken, seldom, if ever, posts, but is an author of great promise.

Just by way of saying "don't throw the baby out with the dirty bathwater."

BTW, I am not voting. I have several favorites, and am hard put to name just one.

mismused

And PS: I have no alts whatsoever.

 

[bearlee]

I honestly wish I could give these folks the benefit of a doubt, but it's one of those things that just stinks to high heaven, as far as I'm concerned.

The sad thing is it might cost the person that is honestly that highly thought of a nomination or a win, and that's just flat-out wrong.

The one thing that's very telling is that these "different" newbies didn't nominate anyone in the genre-transcending category, or the poet category. Most of the honest people went through and nominated something in each category.

Now I was invited over here by Rumple Foreskin in a PM and he said you'd all be nice to me, so I'm taking a break from spamming right now to tell you, no-you shouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt-be cynical. I noticed one category where three people voted for the same person, each about six minutes apart, that had all registered in February, 2004-what are the odds

Okay, time to slink away now

 

[annaswirls]

would it be wrong if I voted for one of the virgins who seem to be reproducing logorhythmically?


seems equally absurd and could make things quite confusing

Hmmm, let's see....

The following people have nominated brightlyiburn (the number after their name is the number of posts):

Jenna_in_Dreamland - 4
missi3378 - 3
ZydigoDancer - 1 I really want to tell them that they can't spell worth shit
anaeish - 1
elhund - 1
hoooofie - 1
laurapalmer - 1
Doc6130 - 2
ComeBackToMe - 2
so__kissme - 2
blue_berry - 1
Demorie edited in

for most of them, their only posts have been in the awards threads, I checked.

For patricia51:

willyb220 - 1
Captain Midnight - 1
writingdragon - 2
Papabear49 - 3
Foux Pas - 2
jennianydots - 2
Dotrice1 - 3 notice a similarity between this name and the one before?
beetle_221 - 1
the Troubador - 2
Kanga40 - 5
GoodWifey - 2
Losthead - 1
Harddaysknight - 1
Chagrined - 1 edited in

ditto for where the posts are.


Is there anything that Laurel can do about this? For the people that are honestly nominated, this really sucks monkey ass.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Re: Hmm! Perhaps . . .

===================

BTW, I am not voting. I have several favorites, and am hard put to name just one.

mismused

And PS: I have no alts whatsoever.

Congratulations on your 500th post, mismused.

Bearlee, seems like you made it in-and-out with no scars. Come back ever so you can.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[mismused]

Re: Re: Hmm! Perhaps . . .

Congratulations on your 500th post, mismused.

Rumple Foreskin

========================

How about that? Do I get a kewpie doll, or something? Or a vibe, maybe?



mismused

 

[CharleyH]

would it be wrong if I voted for one of the virgins who seem to be reproducing logorhythmically?


seems equally absurd and could make things quite confusing

LOL, perhaps you can create an all-encompassing banner for all of them?

 

[bearlee]

Re: Re: Hmm! Perhaps . . .

Congratulations on your 500th post, mismused.

Bearlee, seems like you made it in-and-out with no scars. Come back ever so you can.

Rumple Foreskin

ROFL Yeah, it was fun being here for awhile. You know, it's odd though because a person just voted in two categories-only two votes ever for him but hell, he registered in 2001-that's a long wait

So mr. Foreskin, my darlin' is almost here and I must depart soon-hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend!

 

[Guest]

They don't. That's how two of the poetry categories flipped completely in the last couple of hours of voting, last year...

Damn.

A year later and I'm still being burned in effigy?

I never had any hope of winning that and I didn't want to. I remember telling my husband it would make me uncomfortable as hell because I didn't consider myself a "real" poet. My work actually rhymes and that's quite the no-no in the Poetry Hangout.

Several days before the end of voting I actually checked the scores (because I hadn't been keeping track) and saw a four-way tie. Apparently the opinion among voters was still split.

I do know several AH authors openly advertised mine and other category entrants among their reader base.

At any rate, I've received some lovely hate mail since then - in a public forum and through anonymous feedback. I finally removed all voting and public comments on my poems and haven't submitted others - and I won't, at least not here.

I did nothing to influence the outcome of that contest and winning cost me a great deal more.


(edited to add - I did keep track of my story in the How-to category. I did have hopes of winning there and felt I deserved it.)

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'm sorry, Sarah, I wasn't thinking about you when I mentioned that.

I know you didn't advertise to win that award and I have always considered you a true poet and recommended some of your poems several times. If anything, I defended you on those first days after the results came through, and got my fair share of hate mail as well.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Lauren.

Both for the nice things you've said and for defending me in the pit.

I'm sorry you were blasted for coming to my aid.

This brings back all the bizarre thoughts of last year. Surreal insanity.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Sorry.

It was a bizarre last week of voting, but I never thought it had had so many repercussions on you.

I was seriously pissed off about what happened in the non-erotic poetry award (and that was a different matter altogether from yours), but the following day it was old news already. I didn't even think about it until today when I made that post.

I wasn't blasted for coming to your aid, really. No one in the Poetry board (to my knowledge) had problems with you having won. Many were disappointed, but understood and accepted. The blasting I received was probably much like yours, with messages like "You have a nice future ahead of you if you concentrate on self promotion the way you have been doing" and stuff like that. (That was the mildest, but a recurrent idea. )

 

[Guest]

You are very sweet. Last year was a pretty rough year for me personally - I don't think this would have affected me so hard otherwise.

I don't remember much about the other categories because I honestly wasn't keeping track (though the next day I did catch some angry thread arguments). Seems the poetry awards were a mess all the way around.

I like self-promotion - none of us do enough of it for our hard work. Spiteful fools.

I received prose pretty much along the lines of - Can't believe someone with this low quality of work could win this award - The voting system on Lit must be rigged - blah blah blah -

Charming stuff, really.

(especially 'cause it was all anonymous)

 

[Guest]

Re: Hmm! Perhaps . . .

BTW, I am not voting. I have several favorites, and am hard put to name just one.

mismused

I have to say I find myself in the same predicament.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Perhaps, the one redeeming thing about all that crap Lauren and Sarahh had to deal with is that folks got that worked up over a poetry award. IMHO, that's a good thing. But I'm not a poet and can well understand if Lauren and Sarahh find it difficult to share that view.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Guest]

Perhaps, the one redeeming thing about all that crap Lauren and Sarahh had to deal with is that folks got that worked up over a poetry award. IMHO, that's a good thing. But I'm not a poet and can well understand if Lauren and Sarahh find it difficult to share that view.

Rumple Foreskin

I'm still in therapy.


(Or at least, that's my justification for having rum this evening.)

 

[The_Fool]

I'm still in therapy.


(Or at least, that's my justification for having rum this evening.)

Rum rocks....sounds good.

 

[Guest]

Rum rocks....sounds good.

Musicians make better lovers.

(especially brass players)

 

[cloudy]

uh-oh, we've ticked someone off with our "implications."

Gee, I would've thought that honest folks wouldn't have anything to get defensive about.

edited to add: I'm not talking about you, SSS, not at all. After I thought about my post, I wanted to make sure you didn't think I was.

 

[Guest]

uh-oh, we've ticked someone off with our "implications."

Gee, I would've thought that honest folks wouldn't have anything to get defensive about.

edited to add: I'm not talking about you, SSS, not at all. After I thought about my post, I wanted to make sure you didn't think I was.

I didn't think so, cloudy - no worries. Lauren and I had a lovely discussion which actually made me feel a lot better about last year.

But I think you're correct about some people being defensive.

(And I'd still love to kiss you sometime - but that's beside the point. )

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

For more info, check out the 6th Annual Lit Award Nomination, Most Influential Writer thread. Enjoy.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[cloudy]

(And I'd still love to kiss you sometime - but that's beside the point. )

Now, there's a thought....

 

[cloudy]

For more info, check out the 6th Annual Lit Award Nomination, Most Influential Writer thread. Enjoy.

Rumple Foreskin

Rumply,

You may not have been implying anything, but I certainly was (or Sherry, to be exact, but she is me and I am her and....).

I don't think I would have thought a thing about it if all these suddenly new folks that never post hadn't felt a sudden urge to all nominate the same person.

She may be a fine writer, and if there's nothing strange going on, then I owe some apologies all around, but why would these folks that never bother to post, suddenly feel the need to do so? And all for the same person?

If it looks like a fish, smells like a fish, and swims like a fish....most likely it's a fish.

 

[Guest]

If it looks like a fish, smells like a fish, and swims like a fish....most likely it's a fish.

Unless it's pussy.