If you attend both showings of an AMV contest at the con,

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:16 am

I vote twice because I have two hands.

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:45 pm

I'd vote once and not for myself unless I thought my video was hands-down the best. The way I see it, not voting for the best video is at odds with the purpose of the competition - whether your intention is to deliberately slight that video or avoid voting for your own, either way you're not voting the way you're supposed to.

This does raise the issue of how well AMV contests walk the straight and narrow, though. It's a good thing we're not all politicians - otherwise we'd be up in arms, demanding recounts and accusing everyone else of cheating. Of course, to make such accusations, there have to be rules to break, and since the rules are obviously so hazy as to make voting multiple times not only possible but not explicitly prohibited...

...we end up with threads like this one.

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:50 pm

I would, if I actually had the patience to sit through more than one showing.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:19 pm

I vote for the underdog entry.

outlawed · Post by **outlawed** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:50 pm

dwchang wrote:I only vote for myself when I honestly believe I have the best entry in a category. That's not always the case, but to be honest, it has happened a handful of times (zomg ego).

I bet George W Bush voted for himself and he wasn't even the most qualified !!

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:56 pm

outlawed wrote:
dwchang wrote:I only vote for myself when I honestly believe I have the best entry in a category. That's not always the case, but to be honest, it has happened a handful of times (zomg ego).
I bet George W Bush voted for himself and he wasn't even the most qualified !!

I see what you did there...comparing me to George Bush eh? T_T

But yeah in all honestly, I have done it and I won't hide that. It's surely the minority, but there have been a handful where I felt I had the strongest entry hands down and to be a bit arrogant (and justification

), I did win those so clearly others agreed

.

outlawed · Post by **outlawed** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:38 pm

Not knocking you. I just can't pass up an opportunity to crack GWB jokes. BTW I've voted for myself in leadership elections before. I figure if I wasn't the best man for the job why did I even run =p

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:19 pm

dwchang wrote:
outlawed wrote:
dwchang wrote:I only vote for myself when I honestly believe I have the best entry in a category. That's not always the case, but to be honest, it has happened a handful of times (zomg ego).
I bet George W Bush voted for himself and he wasn't even the most qualified !!
I see what you did there...comparing me to George Bush eh? T_T

But yeah in all honestly, I have done it and I won't hide that. It's surely the minority, but there have been a handful where I felt I had the strongest entry hands down and to be a bit arrogant (and justification ), I did win those so clearly others agreed .

I can top that arrogance.

While I didn't vote for myself in the category I was in, I voted for myself in the Best of Show, only to not win it.

I think there's a lesson to be learned here.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:32 pm

My policy is to vote for myself or just abstain from voting. I'm not going to fuck myself over in a contest. I have voted for myself when I knew I wasn't going to win, but that was so that I'd actually have a vote when everything was tallied. (In fact I beta'd the winning video before hand and congratulated the editor before the contest)

Ijexis · Post by **Ijexis** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:20 pm

I've only entered into one con so far and completely forgot to turn in my ballots during either showing