Weekly Vote & Drama-que!

[emo_snal]

   It's that time of the week! LJ Idol polls are up, and that means its also time for my weekly drama-que (polls will be closed already by our usual time of Sat morning). So throw some OMG-weiners and WTF-burgers on the grill, crack open a nice cold can of STFU and pull up a chair!

Comments

[agirlnamedluna]

So who do you have to screw to get a recommendation here? LOL

I think it's important to note that actually a "noble" (I don't know this person so I cannot comment on their true intentions) cause backfired last week. The post before it was edited either had a comment or an icon asking people to vote for brightflashes and against rm, but only when said person realised how badly this reflected on brightflashes and how it put her in an uncomfortable spot, did they ask everyone to vote for everyone BUT rmThat said - it's Idol. To give an example: Belgium once sent a girl who couldn't sing 2 straight notes after one another to the European Song Festival (which is nothing more than a kitsch gathering where neighbouring countries vote for each other) ... the only reason said "singer" made it through the televoting was because a) the audience of the TV show was pretty low and b) she had called upon her church community to vote for her

[emo_snal]

Haha thats funny about the European Song Festival malarkey. She must have "posted the polls" in her church. ;D

[agirlnamedluna]

LOL well that's exactly what she did :P

[emo_snal]

That actually kind of occured to me as a potential LJ Idol "trick" someone might be doing -- if they lived in dorms or something where there were a number of other people with LJs about they could post a reminded to vote on some kind of physical bulletin board IRL and we'd have no way of figuring it out! O=

Agreed with your recommendations.

[kenakeri]

I liked superhapytime's entry this week, it helped me gain a little perspective.

I'm on the internet to lime. Drama takes away from that, because I'm stupid soft and don't like to see anyone upset/mocked/attacked.

Re: Agreed with your recommendations.

[emo_snal]

Yeah. One of my friends jokingly referred to me as "the king of drama" the other day just on account of my weekly series here, But really, I do it because I think it actually helps to talk about things. When people are sitting around stewing they get entrenched and alienated from one another. So I've started doing this weekly airing out ot the LJ Idol laundry to kind of put it all out there.

My advice for everyone to avoid drama is: (a) don't presume that the unwritten rules you believe in should apply and be accepted by everyone. This is a source of much drama. (b) ESPECIALLY don't try to "enforce" your beliefs on others by means such as strongly worded diatribes to community entries or campaigns of terror involving makign someone's life hell by putting their info out there and encouraging people to contact them. Note that my opinions expressed in this entry are carefully frames as just an opinion.

Also, thanks. (=

Re: Agreed with your recommendations.

[kenakeri]

I do it because I think it actually helps to talk about things.

I recognise that. :-)

[tsarina]

I really, really think that your line "Apparently [info]rm managed to make herself disliked by a large portion of the blogosphere by her past actions."> doesn't come close to the entire story. If we are going to hew to the mantra of there being two sides to every story, then I feel compelled to point out that the particular section of the blogosphere complaining about getting banned from her journal and freezing comment threads were banned and frozen because of the incredible slurs and personal attacks they were throwing around in her journal as well as harassing other people commenting in her journal.

Other Side

[emo_snal]

Duly noted. I don't actual know anything about that except what I'm gathering now. I will say, however, that it still fits under the category of "past actions" because one way or another those people came to dislike her (possibly before she had to ban/delete/freeze them then). Thanks for the heads up on that though.

Re: Other Side

[tsarina]

So it's okay for these folks to hate her and try to get her voted out of something that doesn't have anything to do with them because she banned them due to the fact they were calling her names like tranny faggot because of her user icon? Are you serious?

Re: Other Side

[emo_snal]

If its true its entirely because of her icon well then thats deplorable. I have more faith in people than that, however, and I know from personal experience she can come off as self-righteous and condescending. And yes, if people in LJ dislike her and don't want her to be LJ Idol for reasons other than official entries to LJ Idol, I think its legitimate. If people want to call it Gary's Writing Contest Idol then maybe the situation would be different.

[darkprism]

Oooh sexy evil cackle for the win!

[darkprism]

Wait...it's NOT a short story competition?!

FUCK!

I've been doin' it wrooooong...

Well, that's disheartening.

~*~