Vote or Die

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I don’t think you can use that phrase too much. Go vote, nerds. Vote, and to the vic­tors, the spoils! Which, in this case, is a web graphic declar­ing your post as the winner!

If you vote more than once, I’ll take your lat­est vote, but please don’t make me go through that work. The vot­ing page is above (where it says “2006 eSIP Awards Vote”) or you can use this hyper­link that points to the 2006 eSIP Awards Vote page.

55 thoughts on “Vote or Die”

  1. Dang, I for­got to sub­mit any­thing, oth­er­wise my JJ Redick post would have won everything

  2. Yo Miles… while I’m here I thought I’d drop you a line.…. start­ing big things in Sioux Falls.… would love to go on… but time is run­ning short…

  5. That’s the same thing I said Ghetto Bill. I pur­posely didn’t vote for peo­ple with mul­ti­ple entries. TAKE THAT!
    Ok, I didn’t, but I THOUGHT about it!

  8. Well since we are tak­ing the exact words i will twist them around against you then:
    Fill out the linked form and nom­i­nate one or two of YOUR OWN POSTS.
    That clearly means nom­i­nate one or two of your posts in total. Pick your two best posts and decide on a cat­e­gory to put them in. I thought there were two dif­fer­ent text boxes because there were two dif­fer­ent things you needed to fill out. If i remem­ber, the boxes both had dif­fer­ent labels above them. As in Writer: and Blog:, i dont remem­ber what they really were. And noone knows what a “Gansta” is Bryce.

  9. I just hope I win, and if not i’m going to demand a revote. Just because I want to win that bad. Oy Vey Gangsta!

  10. Your argu­ment is almost valid. :)
    There were no labels above the text boxes. Miles, can you ver­ify, since the site has been taken down?

  11. I put the offend­ing page back up, and it ver­fies that there were labels above each text box that read “Nom­i­nee*:” or “Nom­i­nee:”. These labels were below a col­ored para­graph that announced the cat­e­gory of the fol­low­ing two nom­i­nee boxes. The label of “Nom­i­nee” was meant to indi­cate that that textbox was where a post one wished to nom­i­nate would be pasted into. The “*” was meant to indi­cate (as was explained below on the page) that the field was required. I did state in the orig­i­nal post:

    Fill out the linked form and nom­i­nate one or two of YOUR OWN POSTS.

    : and I later explained that :

    You must nom­i­nate posts, not weblogs

    : and :

    Paste the link to the post into the Nom­i­nee boxes below

    : which were sup­posed to clar­ify things. I, in no way, feel bad that some peo­ple mis­read the instruc­tions. This isn’t a weblog con­test for lit­tle kids who need their mom­mies to unwrap their suck­ers for them and kiss them a lot on their chubby cheeks.

  16. Chubby cheeks? have you looked in the miror lately? You arent the ideal pic­ture of a fit per­son your­self sir. I didnt mis­read the instruc­tions. My point is very valid, take a look at the nom­i­na­tions page. You will notice that Bryan and Jackie only posted a total of how many nom­i­na­tions? oh yeah, two. The nom­i­na­tions were up to many inter­pre­ta­tions. Back to my real point i was actu­ally mak­ing at first, This “com­pe­ti­tion” sucks because there are like ten nom­i­na­tions for every cat­e­gory. If you guys can’t decide on one post as your best one for each topic then i cant either.

  19. you dont give babies suck­ers first off. And you were refer­ing to me in “ome peo­ple mis­read the instruc­tions” and how you didnt feel bad for me, then you com­pared peo­ple that mis­read it are like lit­tle chubby kids. I took it very much as a per­sonal slight.

  20. I think every­one knows that Miles would never do or say any­thing that would hurt somebody’s feel­ings or sin­gle any­one out. He would never have writ­ten that last line had he thought any­one would take it per­son­ally; it was meant as a joke and shouldn’t have been taken seri­ously. One can choose to take it per­son­ally or to not believe him when he apol­o­gizes, but that isn’t his fault.

    I’m not his spokesper­son, and he doesn’t know I’m writ­ing this. But Tyler, I’m the one that egged you on after your first com­ment, I meant it as play­ful ban­ter, and I am the one who pulled Miles into it by ask­ing him to com­ment on it to clear it all up. If any­one wants to attack any­one, it’s my fault because I kept it going on. I’m sorry for what it’s become.

    Miles, I think the con­test was a great idea, and I know you put a lot of work into writ­ing the code for it and try­ing to make it the best you could, espe­cially for it being the first time you’d done any­thing like this. I wish I had the cre­ativ­ity and abil­ity to do some­thing of this mag­ni­tude. It was a great thing for your read­ers and the blog­gers on your site to do some­thing fun and out of the ordi­nary. I think peo­ple were/are excited about it and I enjoyed read­ing everyone’s sub­mis­sions for each cat­e­gory. Please keep hav­ing inno­v­a­tive ways to please your readers!

  23. I think we should bring Randy Moss back. I think he’s learned his les­son. What do you think?

  24. Wait, i fig­ured it out. The rea­son this has been so neg­a­tive is because of Luke Doma­gala. That stu­pid son of a .… !

  25. I think peo­ple give babies suck­ers all the time. There is an expres­sion, after all, that refers to tak­ing “candy from a baby”, and suck­ers are candy.

    That aside, Ghetto Bill claims that he did not mis­read the instruc­tions, there­fore my com­ment wasn’t aimed at him. I said :

    I, in no way, feel bad that some peo­ple mis­read the instructions.

    : and Ghetto Bill later com­mented :

    I didnt mis­read the instructions.

    : so all this con­ver­sa­tion is point­less, and the “per­sonal slight” was mis­in­ter­preted. He didn’t really mis­read the instruc­tions and there­fore wasn’t the sub­ject of the offend­ing line in my com­ment. How­ever, I apol­o­gize to those who did feel insulted by the line; it was ambigu­ous in its inten­tion and has caused a lot of peo­ple a lot of suffering.

  28. Suck­ers are obvi­ous chok­ing haz­ards for babies. Any mother that gives her baby a sucker not only deserves the candy taken from the baby, but child ser­vices should take the baby away as well. My declar­ing that i did not mis­read the rules came after you said the chubby cheeks linge. There­fore, i did feel like the line was intended towards me and i wanted to state that i didnt mis­read the rules. but what­ever i guess, i know i am fat any­way, im just sad i wont be invited to the wed­ding anymore ;)

  30. I say bring Randy Moss back! I’ve always liked the guy and I don’t he’s as bad as the medai makes him out to be. We get him and Brad John­son becomes the Pro-Bowl quar­ter­back I see in him.

  32. I just went to see The Num­ber 300 and Reno 911! Miami, five more dol­lars in your pocket…not to give away any spoliers but one of the char­ac­ters is named Miles!

  39. i’m scoutin…i’m scoutin…did i tell you that i am a god now…i’m scoutin…i need wood

  43. Almost half way to 100. Keep it up peo­ple. Just remem­ber, we hate Luke Doma­gala. And go…

  48. Luke Doma­gala:
    How is he not dead, I believe he fell off a roof once, was run over my a lawn­mower, acci­den­tally axed him­self, got hit by a car, got hit by a bus, and had seizures in high school miss­ing almost an entire years worth of school.
    He’s a bit weird, I think he’s mar­ried, he dis­ap­peared for a while and is now back, and appar­ently in Sioux Falls. I per­son­ally don’t know about him because he swears he always assumed I was gay. Prob­a­bly because he wants my burns. But he’s only human, don’t judge.
    Miles can you ver­ify the rea­sons he should be dead? Did I for­get any?