well idolist B could be me, I don't recall hat my final finish was. And having witnessed first hand the effect of posting a vote for me post sunday morning and watching myself shoot up from almost being eliminated to close to the top
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Yeah, that is true that this is pretty much billed as "part writing contest, part reality show, part popularity contest" (well I think the third part is hotly debated and usually said cynically but the first two I think are more or less official), and the hijinks Gary throw in are part of that. So its my personal opinion that I don't like them (I intentionally didn't use my original bye either) but I suppose I can't complain too much, its part of the game I signed up for (=
No you weren't one of examples, but I can easily go back and recreate your data because whenever I took the data I cut pasted the poll standings into a notepad document. And recreating a track for someone is just a matter of [search] [name] cut/past to excel (x50), and voila your data is mapped out. (=
You don't need to recreate my data, just noting that I did that same thing, post on sunday morning and watch myself go from like 7th position to 12th or something.
But thank you for offering.
Nobody wants to talk about the popularity aspect but it certainly is there. The thing is there are a lot of ways to be popular, and different contestants are better at different parts of it. Some are popular among their own friends, others are very popular among the community members, and others are popular for their writing, as in they have created a following for themselves.
In this contest i think you can get farther by being popular, but ultimately you are not going to win unless you can really write and people really have been enjoying you all season long.
Oh and I didn't use my bye either, but it was more of a pride thing, I knew ultimately it wouldn't really matter in the game.
On the bye thing, it was partially wanting to be able to say I didn't use it, partially saving it in case I did actually get like hit by a truck or something and literally couldn't write for a week, and also significantly because I thought to myself, every chance to write an entry is a chance to impress people and make more of an impression, why sit out a round and miss the opportunity?
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No you weren't one of examples, but I can easily go back and recreate your data because whenever I took the data I cut pasted the poll standings into a notepad document. And recreating a track for someone is just a matter of [search] [name] cut/past to excel (x50), and voila your data is mapped out. (=
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But thank you for offering.
Nobody wants to talk about the popularity aspect but it certainly is there. The thing is there are a lot of ways to be popular, and different contestants are better at different parts of it. Some are popular among their own friends, others are very popular among the community members, and others are popular for their writing, as in they have created a following for themselves.
In this contest i think you can get farther by being popular, but ultimately you are not going to win unless you can really write and people really have been enjoying you all season long.
Oh and I didn't use my bye either, but it was more of a pride thing, I knew ultimately it wouldn't really matter in the game.
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On the bye thing, it was partially wanting to be able to say I didn't use it, partially saving it in case I did actually get like hit by a truck or something and literally couldn't write for a week, and also significantly because I thought to myself, every chance to write an entry is a chance to impress people and make more of an impression, why sit out a round and miss the opportunity?
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