I don’t think you can use that phrase too much. Go vote, nerds. Vote, and to the victors, the spoils! Which, in this case, is a web graphic declaring your post as the winner!
If you vote more than once, I’ll take your latest vote, but please don’t make me go through that work. The voting page is above (where it says “2006 eSIP Awards Vote”) or you can use this hyperlink that points to the 2006 eSIP Awards Vote page.
Dang, I forgot to submit anything, otherwise my JJ Redick post would have won everything
Yo Miles… while I’m here I thought I’d drop you a line….. starting big things in Sioux Falls…. would love to go on… but time is running short…
coulda swore you were dead.
whoa whoa whoa, i had no idea that you could submit more than one entry in each category. This seams like some foul play
That’s the same thing I said Ghetto Bill. I purposely didn’t vote for people with multiple entries. TAKE THAT!
Ok, I didn’t, but I THOUGHT about it!
Don’t be upset at us just because you all didn’t read all of the rules.
Go to the original post: http://www.milesrausch.com/2007/01/24/the-milesrauschcom-excellence-in-serialized-internet-publishing-awards/
it clearly says: Fill out the linked form and nominate one or two of YOUR OWN POSTS.
Why do you think there were two text boxes for every single category when you were nominating your posts?
Oy vey!
Ganstas Paradise
Well since we are taking the exact words i will twist them around against you then:
Fill out the linked form and nominate one or two of YOUR OWN POSTS.
That clearly means nominate one or two of your posts in total. Pick your two best posts and decide on a category to put them in. I thought there were two different text boxes because there were two different things you needed to fill out. If i remember, the boxes both had different labels above them. As in Writer: and Blog:, i dont remember what they really were. And noone knows what a “Gansta” is Bryce.
I just hope I win, and if not i’m going to demand a revote. Just because I want to win that bad. Oy Vey Gangsta!
Your argument is almost valid. :)
There were no labels above the text boxes. Miles, can you verify, since the site has been taken down?
I put the offending page back up, and it verfies that there were labels above each text box that read “Nominee*:” or “Nominee:”. These labels were below a colored paragraph that announced the category of the following two nominee boxes. The label of “Nominee” was meant to indicate that that textbox was where a post one wished to nominate would be pasted into. The “*” was meant to indicate (as was explained below on the page) that the field was required. I did state in the original post:
: and I later explained that :
: and :
: which were supposed to clarify things. I, in no way, feel bad that some people misread the instructions. This isn’t a weblog contest for little kids who need their mommies to unwrap their suckers for them and kiss them a lot on their chubby cheeks.
So your calling me fat?
Ghetto Cartoon
Can’t we just all get a long?
The hell with that. I say let us hate!
Chubby cheeks? have you looked in the miror lately? You arent the ideal picture of a fit person yourself sir. I didnt misread the instructions. My point is very valid, take a look at the nominations page. You will notice that Bryan and Jackie only posted a total of how many nominations? oh yeah, two. The nominations were up to many interpretations. Back to my real point i was actually making at first, This “competition” sucks because there are like ten nominations for every category. If you guys can’t decide on one post as your best one for each topic then i cant either.
Nobody meant for this to get mean… :(
My “chubby cheeks” comment was a remark on how babies have chubby cheeks. It was not meant as a personal slight.
you dont give babies suckers first off. And you were refering to me in “ome people misread the instructions” and how you didnt feel bad for me, then you compared people that misread it are like little chubby kids. I took it very much as a personal slight.
I think everyone knows that Miles would never do or say anything that would hurt somebody’s feelings or single anyone out. He would never have written that last line had he thought anyone would take it personally; it was meant as a joke and shouldn’t have been taken seriously. One can choose to take it personally or to not believe him when he apologizes, but that isn’t his fault.
I’m not his spokesperson, and he doesn’t know I’m writing this. But Tyler, I’m the one that egged you on after your first comment, I meant it as playful banter, and I am the one who pulled Miles into it by asking him to comment on it to clear it all up. If anyone wants to attack anyone, it’s my fault because I kept it going on. I’m sorry for what it’s become.
Miles, I think the contest was a great idea, and I know you put a lot of work into writing the code for it and trying to make it the best you could, especially for it being the first time you’d done anything like this. I wish I had the creativity and ability to do something of this magnitude. It was a great thing for your readers and the bloggers on your site to do something fun and out of the ordinary. I think people were/are excited about it and I enjoyed reading everyone’s submissions for each category. Please keep having innovative ways to please your readers!
How about them Vikings? Free agency, what a coin toss huh?
Maybe this big controversy will bring more people here to vote (but not for me, aka the bad guy)
I think we should bring Randy Moss back. I think he’s learned his lesson. What do you think?
Wait, i figured it out. The reason this has been so negative is because of Luke Domagala. That stupid son of a …. !
I think people give babies suckers all the time. There is an expression, after all, that refers to taking “candy from a baby”, and suckers are candy.
That aside, Ghetto Bill claims that he did not misread the instructions, therefore my comment wasn’t aimed at him. I said :
: and Ghetto Bill later commented :
: so all this conversation is pointless, and the “personal slight” was misinterpreted. He didn’t really misread the instructions and therefore wasn’t the subject of the offending line in my comment. However, I apologize to those who did feel insulted by the line; it was ambiguous in its intention and has caused a lot of people a lot of suffering.
Damn you Luke Domagala!!!!!!!
Hand on my nutsac.
and i feel responsible cause i told miles he should do a contest with our posts.
it takes a thief.
Suckers are obvious choking hazards for babies. Any mother that gives her baby a sucker not only deserves the candy taken from the baby, but child services should take the baby away as well. My declaring that i did not misread the rules came after you said the chubby cheeks linge. Therefore, i did feel like the line was intended towards me and i wanted to state that i didnt misread the rules. but whatever i guess, i know i am fat anyway, im just sad i wont be invited to the wedding anymore ;)
Luke Domagala is a son of a B!
I say bring Randy Moss back! I’ve always liked the guy and I don’t he’s as bad as the medai makes him out to be. We get him and Brad Johnson becomes the Pro-Bowl quarterback I see in him.
MAKE FUN OF ME NEXT!!!
I just went to see The Number 300 and Reno 911! Miami, five more dollars in your pocket…not to give away any spoliers but one of the characters is named Miles!
I want these comments to reach 100! Who’s with me?
The Number 300? Never heard of it
The Number 23, my bad
throw things at me….throw things at me…you sure are tough attacking unarmed soldiers…throw things at me…
Why make fun of Boy when we can make fun of Luke Domagala! Right guys?
Who is Luke?
i’m scoutin…i’m scoutin…did i tell you that i am a god now…i’m scoutin…i need wood
Can you say 40!!!!
can you say 41!
here’s to 42
Almost half way to 100. Keep it up people. Just remember, we hate Luke Domagala. And go…
WHO IS LUKE!!
I remember good ole Luke…Im luke domagala a dee a domagala a di a damagala a di
This is, RTS3
This is, RTS3
This is, RTS3
Thissss is RTS3
CHris I don’t get it…
Luke Domagala:
How is he not dead, I believe he fell off a roof once, was run over my a lawnmower, accidentally axed himself, got hit by a car, got hit by a bus, and had seizures in high school missing almost an entire years worth of school.
He’s a bit weird, I think he’s married, he disappeared for a while and is now back, and apparently in Sioux Falls. I personally don’t know about him because he swears he always assumed I was gay. Probably because he wants my burns. But he’s only human, don’t judge.
Miles can you verify the reasons he should be dead? Did I forget any?
Can we get to 50?
but of course mon ami
The RTS3 is from the game Age of Mythology. When Bryce was saying throw things at me and David was saying I’m scoutin, those were from Age of Mythology too.
isn’t AOM dead yet?
Tony is all talk about being 53… he doesn’t even make the 53rd post… so now I am 53 and he can maybe try for 54… maybe
54! WOOT!
I haven’t followed a lot of what was said but, hey, I like double digit numbers.