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  1. 1. Alliance of the Year

    • Black Knights
      34
    • Fark
      5
    • Guardian
      5
    • Knights Templar
      17
    • Mensa HQ
      7
    • New Pacific Order
      142
    • Pantheon
      14
    • Rose
      16
    • The Knights Radiant
      45
    • Zodiac
      35
    • ABSTAIN
      23
  2. 2. Most Powerful Alliance

    • Acadia
      3
    • Arrgh!
      25
    • Black Knights
      34
    • Fark
      1
    • Guardian
      6
    • New Pacific Order
      161
    • Nuclear Knights
      12
    • Rose
      18
    • The Knights Radiant
      66
    • ABSTAIN
      17
  3. 3. Best Military

    • Arrgh!
      39
    • Black Knights
      155
    • Cerberus
      3
    • Guardian
      18
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
      6
    • Mensa HQ
      14
    • New Pacific Order
      29
    • Nuclear Knights
      10
    • Rose
      10
    • The Knights Radiant
      38
    • The Syndicate
      6
    • ABSTAIN
      15
  4. 4. Best Rookie Alliance

    • Advanced Idea Mechanics
      14
    • Avansies
      3
    • Cerberus
      113
    • Church of Spaceology
      29
    • Dark Brotherhood
      6
    • Knights Templar
      36
    • Orange Defense Network
      15
    • Rise of the Undead Mob
      8
    • Solidarity of Dragons
      31
    • Stratagem
      17
    • Typhon
      7
    • Zodiac
      32
    • ABSTAIN
      32
  5. 5. Best Flag

    • Acadia
      8
    • Arrgh!
      13
    • Cobra Kai Dojo
      10
    • Church of Spaceology
      21
    • Cornerstone
      7
    • Entiti Rorupurei
      9
    • Grumpy Old Bastards
      15
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
      144
    • House Stark
      7
    • Knights Templar
      14
    • Oblivion
      5
    • Orbis State Troopers
      2
    • Pantheon
      12
    • Polaris
      9
    • Ragnarok
      3
    • Rose
      13
    • Roz Wei
      13
    • Terminus Est
      2
    • The Eye
      4
    • The Syndicate
      6
    • ABSTAIN
      26
  6. 6. Best War Flag

    • Arrgh!
      30
    • Cobra Kai Dojo
      21
    • Dark Brotherhood
      1
    • Knights Templar
      15
    • Nuclear Knights
      14
    • The Knights Radiant
      31
    • Mensa HQ
      7
    • Pantheon
      10
    • Polaris
      139
    • Rose
      12
    • Roz Wei
      13
    • United Purple Nations
      8
    • ABSTAIN
      42
  7. 7. Most Active Alliance

    • Alpha
      1
    • Arrgh!
      51
    • Black Knights
      169
    • Church of Spaceology
      11
    • Grumpy Old Bastards
      8
    • Hogwarts
      8
    • Knights Templar
      22
    • Lordran
      6
    • Pantheon
      17
    • The Knights Radiant
      29
    • ABSTAIN
      21
  8. 8. Most Honorable Alliance

    • Black Knights
      23
    • Cobra Kai Dojo
      2
    • Cornerstone
      123
    • Fark
      4
    • Guardian
      14
    • Hogwarts
      2
    • Knights Templar
      13
    • New Pacific Order
      18
    • Pantheon
      15
    • Polaris
      9
    • Principality of Zeon
      1
    • Rose
      4
    • Roz Wei
      13
    • Solidarity of Dragons
      9
    • The Coalition
      7
    • The Knights Radiant
      41
    • Zodiac
      27
    • ABSTAIN
      18
  9. 9. Most Improved Alliance

    • Arrgh!
      18
    • Black Knights
      17
    • Cerberus
      3
    • Fark
      4
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
      125
    • Knights Templar
      14
    • The Syndicate
      1
    • New Pacific Order
      26
    • Rose
      29
    • Roz Wei
      6
    • The Commonwealth
      10
    • The Fighting Pacifics
      11
    • The Knights Radiant
      11
    • The United Empire of ZahAharon
      6
    • World Task Force
      3
    • Zodiac
      36
    • ABSTAIN
      23
  10. 10. Best Diplomatic Team

    • Arrgh!
      23
    • Black Knights
      150
    • Church of Spaceology
      13
    • Cornerstone
      12
    • Knights Templar
      15
    • New Pacific Order
      24
    • Pantheon
      12
    • Rose
      27
    • The Knights Radiant
      32
    • United Purple Nations
      3
    • ABSTAIN
      32
  11. 11. Best Economic System

    • Acadia
      2
    • Arrgh!
      21
    • Black Knights
      20
    • Durmstrang
      7
    • Grumpy Old Bastards
      7
    • Hogwarts
      7
    • Knights Templar
      12
    • New Pacific Order
      41
    • Pantheon
      12
    • Ragnarok
      2
    • Rose
      13
    • The Coalition
      1
    • The Knights Radiant
      23
    • The Syndicate
      5
    • Zodiac
      138
    • ABSTAIN
      32
  12. 12. Best Recruiting Staff

    • Acadia
      1
    • Arrgh!
      18
    • Black Knights
      47
    • Knights Templar
      24
    • Lordran
      7
    • New Pacific Order
      18
    • Pantheon
      9
    • Solidarity of Dragons
      9
    • The Knights Radiant
      31
    • Typhon
      4
    • Zodiac
      147
    • ABSTAIN
      28
  13. 13. Best Propaganda Staff

    • Acadia
      5
    • Arrgh!
      30
    • Black Knights
      161
    • Cobra Kai Dojo
      15
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
      8
    • Knights Templar
      26
    • Lordran
      3
    • New Pacific Order
      24
    • Rose
      12
    • Roz Wei
      8
    • The Eye
      4
    • ABSTAIN
      47
  14. 14. Best Alliance Growth

    • Arrgh!
      29
    • Dark Brotherhood
      4
    • Guardian
      6
    • Knights Templar
      30
    • Lordran
      12
    • New Pacific Order
      171
    • Rose
      18
    • Solidarity of Dragons
      18
    • Sparta
      3
    • The Knights Radiant
      23
    • ABSTAIN
      29
  15. 15. Best Forums

    • Black Knights
      170
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
      12
    • Holy Britannian Empire
      6
    • Mensa HQ
      8
    • New Pacific Order
      20
    • Pantheon
      10
    • Seven Kingdoms
      17
    • The Knights Radiant
      31
    • ABSTAIN
      69
  16. 16. Alliance Most Likely to Succeed in 2018

    • Acadia
      114
    • Advanced Idea Mechanics
      11
    • Arrgh!
      26
    • Assassin Order
      10
    • Avansies
      5
    • Black Knights
      26
    • Guardian
      7
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
      5
    • New Pacific Order
      35
    • Nuclear Knights
      5
    • Rose
      9
    • Stratagem
      12
    • The Knights Radiant
      23
    • Zodiac
      34
    • ABSTAIN
      21
  17. 17. Most Immoral Alliance

    • Arrgh!
      184
    • Black Knights
      17
    • Church of Spaceology
      5
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
      4
    • Holy Britannian Empire
      9
    • Iron Guard
      28
    • Knights Templar
      21
    • Lordran
      4
    • Nuclear Knights
      11
    • Rose
      7
    • Sparta
      3
    • Stratagem
      13
    • The Knights Radiant
      19
    • Viridian Entete
      2
    • ABSTAIN
      16
  18. 18. Most Controversial Alliance

    • Arrgh!
      46
    • Black Knights
      17
    • Duat
      7
    • Roz Wei
      11
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
      5
    • Hogwarts
      24
    • Iron Guard
      148
    • Knights Templar
      28
    • Lordran
      9
    • Nuclear Knights
      14
    • Stratagem
      7
    • The Viridian Entete
      8
    • ABSTAIN
      19
  19. 19. Best Alliance for New Players

    • Arrgh!
      24
    • Black Knights
      32
    • Cobra Kai Dojo
      6
    • Esquire Templar
      3
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
      6
    • Knights Templar
      13
    • New Pacific Order
      21
    • Pantheon
      15
    • Rose
      7
    • Teutonic Order
      0
    • The Commonwealth
      5
    • The Knights Radiant
      38
    • The United Empire of ZahAharon
      4
    • Typhon
      5
    • Zodiac
      143
    • ABSTAIN
      21
  20. 20. Most Missed Alliance for 2017

    • Earth Space Defense
      12
    • Green Protection Agency
      43
    • Mensa HQ
      93
    • Resplendent
      9
    • Terminus Est
      66
    • Valyria
      15
    • Western Union
      15
    • ABSTAIN
      90


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12 minutes ago, Nexa said:

Hmm most honorable alliance is striking me first :P 

I'm not aware of that, tell me what you know

9 minutes ago, Curufinwe said:

so you can't really credibly accuse us rigging the vote.

I'm not accusing, he said it :D

 

But in the end can we agree that this is a valid CB? Because this is the 7th month without world wars...

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31 minutes ago, Micchan said:

You should coordinate the replies, your leader just said "I never won awards that I didn't deserve and I'm very butthurt about this so I rigged the poll to win everything... but this has no meaning, I don't care at all about the winner, I swear!"

EMC rigged one poll, the one for the name of the Trail of Tiers, and I'm still mad because Roq Bottom was a better name

I don't really care what Roquentin said. This doesn't have to be fair or tit for tat. If you want to do a different kind of contest, it could have been darts or we could have rolled dice or we could have selected names out of a hat. As for whether it's rigging...

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7 minutes ago, Micchan said:

I'm not aware of that, tell me what you know

I'm not accusing, he said it :D

 

But in the end can we agree that this is a valid CB? Because this is the 7th month without world wars...

As I said last time you asked, I am but a humble retiree.  Like many retirees, I do believe in the importance of voting though :)

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35 minutes ago, Curufinwe said:

We violated no rules I'm aware of and as far as I know (since I can't actually see who voted for who) every vote has been cast by a member of PW in good standing.  And actually, I think Sval is a funny guy, CS is an honourable AA and Seeker has done some good work in GoG and apparently a fair number of people agree with me.  If you disagree, that is your prerogative - you can vote for someone else and if enough people agree with you, they'll win the category.  What isn't your prerogative is to try to nullify my vote because you don't think that my choices are correct.  Every person who has voted has just as much right to do so as you or I and, quite honestly, it's pretty elitist to suggest otherwise because you disagree with the votes they've chosen to cast. When Syndi-OO dominated voting (in 2016 for example) I don't recall these kinds of objections being raised, which calls into question what exactly you mean by the 'spirit' that is currently being violated by our members voting.

 

You know, traditionally 'vote rigging' means doing stuff like stuffing ballot boxes with fake ballots, intentionally preventing people who don't support you from voting and refusing to count votes against your candidate.  As far as I know, no one (including Roq) has done any of these things, so you can't really credibly accuse us rigging the vote.  We are encouraging our members to vote, but that's called 'participating,' which really isn't the same thing.

Lmao, what sane person do you think you're fooling with all this bullshit rhetoric? Ya'll coordinated your voting efforts to lock up all categories, majority of which you shouldn't even be nominated for. Blah blah blah I'm EMC and butt hurt, bullshit, any sane person would say that the voting so far is just complete rubbish and embarrassing. There are people and alliances here that rightfully deserve these awards and you guys totally !@#$ed them over. 

 

PS: You've locked up controversial player so you can put the campaign to rest. 

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Just now, Justin076 said:

There are people and alliances here that rightfully deserve these awards and you guys totally !@#$ed them over.

Sorry, but I thought the mechanism for determining who "rightfully deserves" any of these awards was the vote.

13 minutes ago, Micchan said:

Into the gulag he goes

Auctor runs the gulags.

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1 minute ago, Justin076 said:

Lmao, what sane person do you think you're fooling with all this bullshit rhetoric? Ya'll coordinated your voting efforts to lock up all categories, majority of which you shouldn't even be nominated for. Blah blah blah I'm EMC and butt hurt, bullshit, any sane person would say that the voting so far is just complete rubbish and embarrassing. There are people and alliances here that rightfully deserve these awards and you guys totally !@#$ed them over. 

 

PS: You've locked up controversial player so you can put the campaign to rest. 

If you feel that other people deserve the awards, then you're free to vote accordingly.  As it happens, I disagree, so we'll have to let the voters decide the matter.

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Tip @ EMC posters from an old friend: This is not doing you a lot of favors. You're coming across as rather ...petty....

 

Yes. IQ probably coordinated its effort. No, this is not much different from things your sphere has done in the past, though it is at a more organized scale it seems.

 

No, it does not matter much in the bigger scheme of things. It's a voting contest. Everyone gets 1 vote. From there... there's no stipulations. Maybe look at improving the regulations and process next time. But for this year... just roll with it, is my advice.

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2 hours ago, Hope said:

~snip~ (because I'm not actually referring to what you said)

From my point of view I would strongly encourage you and everyone else involved in the organization of these votings to scrap the entire awards. It's obvious that people like Roquentin do not appreciate the work you've put in this in the slightest and that they're completely unable to show any kind of respect towards the hours you've invested in it. If they're going to whine about it being scrapped, then who cares? They have decided to be completely inconsiderate so why should you be considerate?

If you decide to keep the whole thing going I still encourage you to scrap the "Funniest player" voting and award the price in a non-democratic (but realistic) way to Zeebrus.

Having joined the game only about six months ago, I was hoping for a bit more in these awards. Of course I'm not an idiot who thought that people wouldn't vote for allied alliances/players but I didn't expect it to be taken to such extremes. I'm sorry your work was treated with such disrespect and I thank you for the effort you put into this event. Regardless of the outcome in the end.

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14 minutes ago, Mitsuru said:

If you decide to keep the whole thing going I still encourage you to scrap the "Funniest player" voting and award the price in a non-democratic (but realistic) way to Zeebrus.

So completely eliminate the community aspect? You're literally suggesting to award it based on your opinion. Personally I don't find Zeebrus funny, so how is it realistic? If you think Zeebrus is the most funny in the community vote for them.

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Easy fix guys, don't worry about it. Change the topic title to "Worst Alliance Category Voting - Official" and change the sub headers from Best to Worst, and from Most to Least and suddenly everything is 100% correct. 2018 Awards saved!

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12 minutes ago, Mitsuru said:

From my point of view I would strongly encourage you and everyone else involved in the organization of these votings to scrap the entire awards. It's obvious that people like Roquentin do not appreciate the work you've put in this in the slightest and that they're completely unable to show any kind of respect towards the hours you've invested in it. If they're going to whine about it being scrapped, then who cares? They have decided to be completely inconsiderate so why should you be considerate?

If you decide to keep the whole thing going I still encourage you to scrap the "Funniest player" voting and award the price in a non-democratic (but realistic) way to Zeebrus.

Having joined the game only about six months ago, I was hoping for a bit more in these awards. Of course I'm not an idiot who thought that people wouldn't vote for allied alliances/players but I didn't expect it to be taken to such extremes. I'm sorry your work was treated with such disrespect and I thank you for the effort you put into this event. Regardless of the outcome in the end.

So basically you're arguing that the vote should be scrapped and an award given to the candidate you prefer because someone else has recieved more votes?  On what basis do you think your opinion is more valid than the dozens of people who didn't vote for your favorite candidate? Why should their vote not count, while yours should?  That's literally the opposite of 'one person, one vote' which is the whole basis on this poll.

As for the rest, all we've done is encourage our members to participate which, if anything, is a validation of the work put in by the organisers (you're welcome). Just because you apparently disagree with the choices our members have made doesn't make their opinions any less valid than your own.

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the issue isnt that IQ is winning the polls or whatever. it’s that we all can’t set aside our political differences for literally a couple forum threads to just vote who we think is best deserving. i think it’s pretty obvious IQ doesn’t even believe their own votes are the best choices in many of the categories

yes, EMC has done the same thing before. no, that doesn’t mean IQ doing it this year now gives them a free pass

usually people say “this is why we can’t have nice things” as a joke, but im being completely serious when i say this. we as a community are unable to set aside our IC/OOC drama to do something fun together. yes, it’s a competition. no, it really doesn’t matter that much if you win or lose. 

im aware im guilty of doing the same thing as well, but i’m more disappointed than anything atm that something that was supposed to be fun has devolved into this

 

edit: telling your members to go out and vote their conscience? that’s a load of shit and you know it. you told them who to vote for and if you say otherwise that’s a lie and you know it

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1 minute ago, Hope said:

the issue isnt that IQ is winning the polls or whatever. it’s that we all can’t set aside our political differences for literally a couple forum threads to just vote who we think is best deserving. i think it’s pretty obvious IQ doesn’t even believe their own votes are the best choices in many of the categories

yes, EMC has done the same thing before. no, that doesn’t mean IQ doing it this year now gives them a free pass

usually people say “this is why we can’t have nice things” as a joke, but im being completely serious when i say this. we as a community are unable to set aside our IC/OOC drama to do something fun together. yes, it’s a competition. no, it really doesn’t matter that much if you win or lose. 

im aware im guilty of doing the same thing as well, but i’m more disappointed than anything atm that something that was supposed to be fun has devolved into this

 

You're still ignoring the points of contention:  

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As for the rest, all we've done is encourage our members to participate which, if anything, is a validation of the work put in by the organisers (you're welcome). Just because you apparently disagree with the choices our members have made doesn't make their opinions any less valid than your own.

If they believe that whoever they voted for should be who should win that category then who are you to say their vote shouldn't count and be discredited?  Like I said before, people have the opportunity to literally vote for whoever they want to vote for in the poll.  This isn't a straw poll in which people can spam it.  These are individual people who are entitled to their own beliefs and they are expressing them in the poll.  Not sure why that's even a problem.

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9 minutes ago, Hope said:

the issue isnt that IQ is winning the polls or whatever. it’s that we all can’t set aside our political differences for literally a couple forum threads to just vote who we think is best deserving. i think it’s pretty obvious IQ doesn’t even believe their own votes are the best choices in many of the categories

yes, EMC has done the same thing before. no, that doesn’t mean IQ doing it this year now gives them a free pass

usually people say “this is why we can’t have nice things” as a joke, but im being completely serious when i say this. we as a community are unable to set aside our IC/OOC drama to do something fun together. yes, it’s a competition. no, it really doesn’t matter that much if you win or lose. 

im aware im guilty of doing the same thing as well, but i’m more disappointed than anything atm that something that was supposed to be fun has devolved into this

 

Um, it's kind of presumptuous to suggest that you know the minds of voters better than they do because you don't agree with their preferences. People vote for lots of people for lots of reasons - just because you think someone is more deserving doesn't mean someone else does, nor are you necessarily measuring that person by the same yardstick they are.  That's why we have votes - if we didn't disagree on who the best choice was, we wouldn't need to hold a vote at all.

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9 minutes ago, Hope said:

the issue isnt that IQ is winning the polls or whatever. it’s that we all can’t set aside our political differences for literally a couple forum threads to just vote who we think is best deserving. i think it’s pretty obvious IQ doesn’t even believe their own votes are the best choices in many of the categories

yes, EMC has done the same thing before. no, that doesn’t mean IQ doing it this year now gives them a free pass

usually people say “this is why we can’t have nice things” as a joke, but im being completely serious when i say this. we as a community are unable to set aside our IC/OOC drama to do something fun together. yes, it’s a competition. no, it really doesn’t matter that much if you win or lose. 

im aware im guilty of doing the same thing as well, but i’m more disappointed than anything atm that something that was supposed to be fun has devolved into this

 

edit: telling your members to go out and vote their conscience? that’s a load of shit and you know it. you told them who to vote for and if you say otherwise that’s a lie and you know it

 

So your plan to throw in a few marginal candidates along with the players and alliances you wanted to win backfired on you? Poor babies.

3 hours ago, Felkey said:

I wonder how much of that could be attributed to building up to suicide nuke Pantheon infra, then immediately selling all your units to avoid damage while getting your shit kicked in?

Kind of like having Arrgh one ship beige you so you could rebuild in beige right? BTW, did you have to pay them for that?

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4 minutes ago, Who Me said:

 

So your plan to throw in a few marginal candidates along with the players and alliances you wanted to win backfired on you? Poor babies.

y’all nominated them, im only contending that the fact that it’s obvious votes were coordinated so that only people in IQ would win.

 

6 minutes ago, Curufinwe said:

Um, it's kind of presumptuous to suggest that you know the minds of voters better than they do because you don't agree with their preferences. People vote for lots of people for lots of reasons - just because you think someone is more deserving doesn't mean someone else does, nor are you necessarily measuring that person by the same yardstick they are.  That's why we have votes - if we didn't disagree on who the best choice was, we wouldn't need to hold a vote at all.

 

7 minutes ago, Seeker said:

You're still ignoring the points of contention:  

If they believe that whoever they voted for should be who should win that category then who are you to say their vote shouldn't count and be discredited?  Like I said before, people have the opportunity to literally vote for whoever they want to vote for in the poll.  This isn't a straw poll in which people can spam it.  These are individual people who are entitled to their own beliefs and they are expressing them in the poll.  Not sure why that's even a problem.

because it just so happens that the majority of people in the community find Sval hilarious? if that was the case then you’d think people on both sides would agree with you. or that people on both sides find Thantos to be the best community addition..oh wait that isnt the case. nobody has heard of him besides GoG

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at least you can stop complaining the forums are biased against IQ players now

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2 hours ago, Hope said:

can confirm. nice to see the hours it took to put all the polls together (this is not an exaggeration) are just being rigged by Roq and his cronies.

nice to see a fun community activity was treated as something political

at least some people appreciate it.

So since when is exercising our ability to vote for whoever we choose considered "rigging" and "unappreciative" and since when is defending our freedom of choice by our own opinion from the attacks here on forums considered making it "political" ?? Seems the only ones making it political are the ones whining about it being rigged and throwing out these big conspiracy theories about how or why it might be rigged.

 

2 hours ago, Hope said:

lmao okay next time you can waste hours of your life setting up polls for people who aren’t going to take it seriously and are just going to vote for people who aren’t deserving of it

by doing what you did you ruined it for people who may actually have wanted to see people who deserved it win

just a thought, since you obviously didnt think about anyone but yourself and how you can “get back at EMC”

Seriously? As if these other people you speak of who I'm sure are voting for themselves or their allies is any more objective? Obviously the matter of who deserves the award is decided by the one who gets the most votes, so how can you say that any other who didn't win by vote deserves it? They clearly don't deserve it if they fail to win the vote, now do they? You're just speaking from your own flawed personal views and opinion which I do not share.

 

17 minutes ago, Mitsuru said:

From my point of view I would strongly encourage you and everyone else involved in the organization of these votings to scrap the entire awards. It's obvious that people like Roquentin do not appreciate the work you've put in this in the slightest and that they're completely unable to show any kind of respect towards the hours you've invested in it. If they're going to whine about it being scrapped, then who cares? They have decided to be completely inconsiderate so why should you be considerate?

If you decide to keep the whole thing going I still encourage you to scrap the "Funniest player" voting and award the price in a non-democratic (but realistic) way to Zeebrus.

Having joined the game only about six months ago, I was hoping for a bit more in these awards. Of course I'm not an idiot who thought that people wouldn't vote for allied alliances/players but I didn't expect it to be taken to such extremes. I'm sorry your work was treated with such disrespect and I thank you for the effort you put into this event. Regardless of the outcome in the end.

So you're going to pretty much disregard my (and several others as well) vote and personal opinion on who I find more humor in all because you're apparently hurt that someone who you find more humor in that I didn't isn't winning, just in order to give them the win? That's lame and pretty messed up and that is the perfect example of a rigged poll.

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57 minutes ago, Partisan said:

Tip @ EMC posters from an old friend: This is not doing you a lot of favors. You're coming across as rather ...petty....

 

Yes. IQ probably coordinated its effort. No, this is not much different from things your sphere has done in the past, though it is at a more organized scale it seems.

 

No, it does not matter much in the bigger scheme of things. It's a voting contest. Everyone gets 1 vote. From there... there's no stipulations. Maybe look at improving the regulations and process next time. But for this year... just roll with it, is my advice.

Small correction.

Mensa coordinated votes on themselves during polls (At least the early ones after we started up and had 50+ members).  I think TKR coordinated theirs one year too, but beyond that - that was the only coordinated stuff.

So yes, we're guilty of it, but not as a sphere.  That was also before Sheepy decided to give awards to players who won the votes.

However, I honestly care less about the votes.  It's amusing.

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Hm, I do think a bigger fuss is being made about this than it deserves.

These votes have been popularity contests every year, and have been stuffed by whichever alliance or group of alliances wanted to win stuff at the time and put in effort. The first year it was tS, Mensa and OO, then last year it was TKR and tS, and now it seems IQ is trying to get themselves some awards. Were people unhappy with who won every year? Absolutely, I remember people complaining pretty heavily whenever someone won who they thought absolutely didn't deserve it. That's just what happens with these sorts of votes. I'd encourage anyone who wants them or their alliance win to get someone to nominate them and then get out to vote, you can absolutely win! I mean, I won worst alliance leader last year just by bugging people to vote for me, and managed to unseat some tough competition. If TKR members want TKR to win, you guys should get people out to vote! Message your fellow members, remind people why you think TKR, or any nominee, earned their top spot this year. All you have to do is try!

And regardless, not winning isn't a massive loss. If Zeebrus doesn't win "Funniest Player", that doesn't mean they aren't funny or well-liked by a lot of people, and I'm sure all those who believe that now won't change their minds! So yeah, please don't cancel the awards, that's just cutting off the nose to spite the face. I can assure you guys a lot of people are having fun with these, I'm eagerly awaiting the "Worst" category so I can campaign and defend my title! The effort is really appreciated, and clearly a lot of activity has been sparked by these, which is great! Letting anyone ruin the fun is just doing a disservice to yourself and all those who are having a good time.

I mean, when Kastor ran the awards last year, he didn't throw a fit and cancel them because people voted him "Worst Player" or "Worst Forum Poster". It's not too often I say this, but everyone should be more like Kastor in this situation. Get out and let people know, have some fun with these. After all, they're only once a year! :D

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Just goes to show how interesting this game is when the most controversial thing we have to divide ourselves is unsportsmanlike activities in a popularity contest. 

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