TL , Prepare to Win Miss America - Page 13

On January 21 2010 12:30 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:



You are ridiculous. Here's why.

There may be other deserving candidates. But the difference is, she knows miss Oregon personally and knows she is a good person and what she is capable of, thus she feels there is a better chance that this person will make more of a postive difference than the others and wants to maximize the probability that she will win.

Also, you have failed to consider how the other contestants are getting votes. Do you think the vast majority of votes are people who just stumble on the site and say "hey, I'm going to watch all the videos to make sure I give all the candidates a fair chance?" Further, even if someone did that, do you think it would give an accurate enough picture of each candidate to make the best decision? The reality is, almost everyone who goes there to vote already knows who they are going to vote for before or if they watch the videos, whether they know the candidate personally, saw them at their local pageant, or have been directed in some other form through an advertisement such as this thread.

For the love of god, get off your high horse. Are you telling me that you never do anything to help your friends or family over other people just because they are your friends and family and you think they deserve it more than others? "I hope you sleep well at night." ROFL are you kidding me?

She called us "nerds" affectionately so don't try to blow that out of proportion. Every one of us here at TL is at least somewhat of a nerd if we are starcraft enthusiasts who post on a website dedicated to it, so I don't find anything wrong with that. You clearly must be insecure about it to have pointed that out as a problem. In fact, uncontrollable has hundreds of posts on her account and has played a reasonable amount of starcraft herself. She's a nerd too, even though she employs "cute girlish gestures"! Feel better now?

So it's cool for friends and family to help out just because they know the person? If this were the only factor involved, it would mean that whoever has more friends and family would win. Do you feel that this is a satisfactory, or better, measure than something equally as arbitrary as how many votes they can garner through advertising? I have news for you, just about any vote-based contest like this, e.g. politics, is all about who can convince more people to vote for them using whatever legal methods they have at their disposal, whether or not they are really the best candidate. This is the way Democracy works, the hope is that there is at least some correlation between how many votes someone gets through these means and how good of a candidate they are. I would say throughout history it's obvious that it works to at least some degree. It's not like we have some omniscient mathematical formula we can use to compute a value for each candidate and choose whoever gets the highest number.