Discuss here the best article iPad2 contest

[Jonathan M Davis]

On 2011-06-02 03:57, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:op.vwf1mfuueav7ka at localhost.localdomain...
> 
> > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:16:40 -0400, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> What's the policy for people who submitted articles?  If we don't
> >> officially have
> >> one, I think everyone who submitted an article should vote for any
> >> article except
> >> their own.  If submitters are allowed to vote for themselves, of course
> >> they all
> >> will and their votes will effectively cancel out.  I think it's best to
> >> give each
> >> submitter a meaningful vote as to what the best other article is.
> > 
> > There were never any rules about authors of articles not being able to
> > vote.  Since all of us had posted to the newsgroup prior to the
> > announcement, we can all vote.
> > 
> > I was planning on voting for the best article besides my own because I
> > think that's the gentlemanly thing to do.  But there are no rules as far
> > as whether you can vote for your own article or not.  I.e. if you want to
> > vote for your own article, there is no rule against that.
> > 
> > -Steve
> 
> If other authors vote for themselves, then I'd want to vote for myself as
> well. However, I much prefer Steve's plan of voting for someone other than
> himself. I agree it's "the gentlemanly thing to do". Besides, if most of us
> do vote for ourselves, then they'll pretty much just cancel out anyway.
> 
> So I have a proposal: Even if we are technically allowed to vote for
> ourselves, I propose that we all agree not to. With Steve and I in favor of
> this, that makes it 2 out of the 5 so far. So how about it, Jonathan, Dave
> and Robert?

Fine with me.

- Jonathan M Davis