Vote for Faces of Apolyton #10 (read the post before voting)

[Locutus]

DC,
I retract my statement that you ought to be disqualified by voting for yourself, even though it was only a joke If anyone ought to be disqualified here it should be faded glory and Solver. Due to their advertising the outcome of this poll has become rather meaningless. Before the advertising the two of them together had 10 votes and now they have 25, while the rest of us have hardly gotten any new votes. I don't care who eventually gets the interview (as I said before, I'm sure all of us will get interviewed at some point), but there's not a chance in hell that the current result accurately reflects the opinion of all of Apolyton. So I hope Solver will be wise enough to not solely look at the outcome of this poll when he selects the next person to interview.

Korn,
Ming posted a similar proposal in a different thread just a few days ago. My response then was that I couldn't agree more with him, and I say the same thing to you now. If you want to use a democratic system and let the posters decide who should be interviewed (which I think is basically a good idea), a system such as the one you describe is by far the best way of doing this.

To prevent situations such as the ones DC describes (although I disagree about OT making more contributions to Apolyton than Alt Civs - but that's a different story altogether), someone (Solver, I suppose) should keep track of all the individual polls and eventually choose the candidates to interview. This would prevent situations where relatively unimportant people from smaller sections are favoured over relatively important people from larger sections, and it would also ensure that cross-forum people, who get a few votes in every forum, get the credit they deserve.

Gramphos,
D'oh! Who uses such an ugly style anyway?

Edit: spelling

[Locutus]

As korn pointed out, if we all were to campaign in other parts of the forum, this poll would be nothing but a mere popularity contest. And that is definitely *not* a good way to select candidates for the FoA interiew, AFAIK that was never the intent of whole feature...

[Solver]

Nonsense. Saddam did it first because I said anyone might link. Reason is, I need more votes. If I get 30-40 votes alltogether, it does not suit me AT ALL. I want more votes, and that's why I was actually happy to see Saddam link.

I strongly endorse you to link the thread, then there would be more votes. A poll like this can never be too fair...

Locutus, you're right, you will all be interviewed. All the people on this poll offered will be interviewed. The poll is merely unimportant, as it just decides who will be #10.

Thus, please forgive Saddam for starting to link, and link yourself. More votes!

And admittedly, I expect DC to win.

[notyoueither]

Hey! @#!

Where's the NYE option. Every poll needs it's banana does it not?

Don't worry korn. I voted for you. If only we could figure out how to lure the Finn vote, you'd have you plus me plus 99. You win. But you would not understand a single word of the questions put to you. Unless of course you have a Jibberish-English dictionary handy. Good luck.

Salve

[Solver]

Let me admit that Korn was my original intention for the interview number 10. Go Korn!

I guessed someone will notice that the poll has no bananas .

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Solver
I guessed someone will notice that the poll has no bananas .

There isn't? What's the fourth choice for then?

[PN]

Solver

Should be an interesting interview. Especially if he's as responsive as he was when I was chasing him in some games I moderate.

[Solver]

Seriously speaking, if (when, in fact) I am interviewed, I'll let the others ask me questions, and somebody else will be making the whole interview. I hope it won't be worse than the others... I LOVE to talk.

[Lefty Scaevola]

I want to exploce Darkclouds obsessive behavior with the lists. If it souds fun, maybe i will convert.

[korn469]

insomnia strikes again

i tried to post this last night, but my internet died

if we all were to campaign in other parts of the forum, this poll would be nothing but a mere popularity contest. And that is definitely *not* a good way to select candidates for the FoA interiew, AFAIK that was never the intent of whole feature

exactly, FoA should let everyone on apolyton learn a little something new about people they have heard of but haven't actually met

i know vel and yin and i had played a pbem game with tau ceti, and although i knew of wesw, xin yu, and lancer i wouldn't consider that i knew them, so finding about about them was really a treat, i have seen stefu's name many times on apolyton but i don't know much about him at all, and i have been here for almost three years and have participated in a number of sections

i think everyone knows ming though

so for people who haven't been here long, they certianly don't remember way back when, and they don't really know much about all of the interesting people and things that have happened on apolyton, considering i couldn't even tell you half of the things either

but it is really cool to find out, and what i would really hate to see if instead of being something neat, if there was a big nasty fight over this, personally i don't care if i win...reading a FoA about me would be cool, but hey i already know all about myself so it wouldn't be as cool as reading about someone else

and while it sounds like i am coming down on solver, i'm not, i think you are doing a really good job with the series, i just think that there should be some kind of more precise method of determining who to interview next, for one thing to keep people from getting their feelings hurt, and for another thing trying to overzealous people from spamming vote for ME! and finally so we can see a good cross section of apolyton, and not have one section dominate all of the others, i mean i can think of people from every section i would like to see in FoA, most of them for different reasons
i certainly don't think it is bad right now, but i see lots of potential for it to get out of hand

so keep up the good work solver, and realize i'm offering these suggestions to try and make the FoA even better than what it is now, because i think it really makes the community stronger, and i'm glad you got a pic of xin yu, it would be cool if possible to include a pic of everyone in the FoA, so we could see the person behind the posts

just as i don't want to see 10 OT interviews in a row, i don't think we should go overboard and interview every single person who ever posted in the alt civs section either

but slightly over representing the less active forums isn't a bad thing

just like how vel, wesw, and tau ceti all came first, while there is nothing wrong with this from a strength of selection standpoint (all were more than worthy of being in the FoA); however a few people got all huffy about how solver was only interviewing his buddies, which wasn't true but that illustrates how uptight people can be, yet this seems to disappear if there are rules and those rules seem fair

i would almost guarantee if we had of established rules on the selection criteria of people before starting the FoA and people agreed that those rules were fair, then even if the FoA had the same order, i bet that there wouldn't have been any complaining, so i am just trying to think of ways to make sure this isn't as much of a headache

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here's an idea, maybe we could vote on which section we want to see a FoA from (and give a list of possible candidates from each section), and have a rule that one section can't get more than 2 FoAs before all of the other sections have had their turn, so while Civ3, Civ2, and the OT might get to have 2 FoA alt civs could still get one, and once every section has had at least one FoA then it would start all over

[Solver]

Korn, thanks, good points. I'll remember these.

There's also a picture of Yin, BTW. I've offered everyone to send a pic, but only Yin, Xin Yu and Stefu did.

Actually, I don't think there should be a vote for each FoA interview. I have names in my head for at least another 10 interivews. The #10 just seemed somewhat special.

I think Saddam might be a good interview, admittedly, for some have heard of him, some have read his posts in the OTF, but not many know him.

And BTW, you can hardly split FoAs by sections. Say, I am Civ 3, CtP and Apolyton.

[FlameFlash]

Originally posted by faded glory
I guess I win !


But you will have to wait till friday or monday for a picture. Its against the rules to use it for things like these. So I have work late next monday or friday anyway

Sorry, FG... I decided I'd tie the vote just to throw a little monkey wrench into the works Now, hopefully some more people will come in and vote for Solver so we'll have a three-way tie.

[Keygen]

Interesting candidates Solv

I am not sure who I would like to see first interviewed but I surely would like to see all of them in the future.

Perhaps Locutus first? An old CtP 1&2 mod maker and great help in creation related discussions. I like this guy

Solv, you propose yourself for the interview? Who said that anyone would be interested on reading about you?
Of cource I am kidding friend Truly I always wanted to see an interview with you since FoA started. I guess I am going to see that after all

Never thought of reading an interview with Faded
But, yes why not, I would like to see an interview with one of the most sociable & eccentric Apolytoners ever seen Go Faded

I heared of DarkCloud recently from the "The Apolyton 100" and I really liked and appreciated his work.

Lastly I had seen Korn in a couple of threads but I don't know anything about him. Well, what the hell, why not learn something about him from within FoA

BTW, if Solver or Faded goes for it I would surely be offered to do part or all of the interview since I know both too well

[Solver]

Keygen, first, cast your vote, I haven't see you voted yet.

Second, who said you'll be offered to make the interview? Maybe a couple of questions, but I'll see with the whole. If you beg it well, I might consider.

[spartak]

We need two more votes for Solver. Come on guys give him a brea\k.