The final results of our shortened haiku romp... anticlimactic!
Dear ladies and gents: The polling has just been closed, and it was quite close.
Our two "finalists" were our friends quietspaces and roina_arwen.
Winning by one vote, roina-- our past runner-up-- took the lead this time.
Seems quite cut and dried-- until I remind you all of Week Oh's results. / At the time, I said the winner of that week's poll would get Powers ( Read more... )
Our two "finalists" were our friends quietspaces and roina_arwen.
Winning by one vote, roina-- our past runner-up-- took the lead this time.
Seems quite cut and dried-- until I remind you all of Week Oh's results. / At the time, I said the winner of that week's poll would get Powers ( Read more... )
You have something of a point re: longer poems and polling. I'm not sure that it's that much more difficult than going from place to place and reading entries, especially when there are still likely to be relatively few. But I can see that being something of an issue with sonnets.
The blind voting has been my way of dealing with what I've always seen as an inherent LJI problem-- again, one that can't really be avoided when you start with hundreds of contestants, but with smaller numbers, totally possible to do.
People totally *can* post "Hey, vote for contestant #3" and I can't stop them; I've never said I would disqualify anyone for doing that (I can't really check friends-only entries, for one thing). But doesn't it kinda spoil the meritocracious fun?
I did try to get folks to add the comm to their f-list with their join-ups (left a comment to each of the early joiners at least...), but I guess it didn't happen for some of us. In "everyone's" defense, I do know adding comms to a friend feed on LJ is just a little bit more obnoxious and involved than it really needs to be in this day and age.
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