Mistress Tailmon wrote:
Pawkeshup the Vile wrote:
The "clique" doesn't exist, and it wouldn't run squat if it did.
I beg to differ on this. They do exist.
As I stated earlier. There are more deserving canidates than Niti. Him winning is a slap to all that is Allakazam!
Maybe you should nominate these better-deserving candidates, and give them a good writeup in the voting thread then. I mean, I generally vote for the poster whose contributions I am familiar with. Half the time, nominations don't even have relevant threads or posts linked, so if you're not already familiar with the poster, you may not even see what they've done. Nil happens to have high visibility on =10, as well as having contributed greatly to job forums that I frequent. So, I voted for him. I don't always vote for the poster with the highest name recognition, it just so happened that I did this time.
You can complain all you want, but if some "Player of the Month" contest on a video game message board really gets you that up in arms about the so-called forum clique, you should probably take a step back and try to gain some perspective. There may be somewhat of a clique on here amongst the most active posters, but the fact that they post frequently and therefore interact with each other more often than the less active posters naturally leads to people voting for their "friends." However, there is
every opportunity for newer and lesser-known posters to step up and contribute to the forums. Plenty of low postcount posters have been rated up to Excellent for the quality of their posts. It's really not that hard to gain "acceptance."
Edited for some funky grammar. Edited, May 30th 2009 1:59pm by boywithoutaspoon