Alun wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote in
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Alun wrote:
If I thought it should be decided by a poll, and I'm by no means sure
of that, then it should be done on-line. Just have a web page where
you click your chosen response. Chicago voters might be a problem,
though.
Do you remember Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf?
- Mike KB3EIA -
No. Can't say I do. Enlighten me!
A couple years back, People Magazine ran an online vote for "Most
Beautiful Person of the Year" on their website. This was shortly after
the movie "Titanic" was released. People's "choice " was for Leonardo
DeCaprio to run away with the honors (go figure!)
Well the word got around in the newsgroups that this was going on, and
the suggestion was made to all newsgroupies to go to the page and do a
write-in vote for "Hank, the angry drunken dwarf"
http://www.hankthedwarf.com/plain/frameset.html
Hank was definitely NOT one of the "beautiful people", and was a
perfect foil for the shallow business of celebrity worship as practiced
by the likes of People magazine. Unfortunately, Hank's "lifestyle"
caught up with him at an amazingly early age, and he is no longer with us.
But he and hundreds of thousands of newsgroupies spanked People
magazine a good one:
http://www.hankthedwarf.com/flash_dynamic/news.html
Quote:
PEOPLE ONLINE
MAY 1998
Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf wins People Online's Most Beautiful Person
in the World Poll receiving 230,169 votes dwarfing runner up Leonardo
DiCaprio and Rick Flair by over 200,000 votes.
People Online's articles after the spectacle said: "Though we're hardly
novices at handling online polls--this was out sixth--nothing could have
prepared us for the agony, the ecstacy…and well, the angry, drunken dwarf."
But my point in all this is:
Internet polls mean absolutely nothing whatsoever! I voted for Hank
three times in that poll, and if it happened today, I could vote for him
five times without trying. If I tried, I suppose I could give him around
300 votes or so.
This is the internet, and online voting won't work.
- Mike KB3EIA -