Turbine Tactics not so bad after all, eh?

[Thanatos34]

Since so much of the escapist community was against Turbine voters beign encouraged to come here to vote I'm taking that to heart and not rushing over to sign up for an account and vote for Escapist on the webby's...It just seems wrong to suport Escapist in a way their membership thinks is cheating

Can you be a little more of a smart-ass?

 

[Mekado]

Can we let the Turbine thing go already ? or you're going to grind about it all year long ?

I came here via a Turbine link, and i stayed.

 

[Thanatos34]

from what I understand, the 'webby award' or whatever it is have no permanent community/forum. Hence, everyone who signs up there is doing so to vote and not affecting the existing community, because it does not exist.

This. Also, the idea of an award being decided by an open vote, in which most of the voters don't have experience with all of the nominees, makes that award a meaningless indicator of quality. The winner won't necessarily be the site that is considered the best by people who know all the nominees, but the site that has the most visitors or advertises the award the hardest. Popularity doesn't equal quality, and advertising certainly doesn't.

That's why I won't give the Webby Awards much respect. You can draw your own conclusions about my opinion of the March Madness result.

What Doug and Fraser said.

Fourthed.

5thed

I agree completely. It is simply the website that has the most traffic that will win that award, making it as meaningless as the MM competition. Both contests will not show who is the best, but who has the most members, (or most rabid fanbase, lol).

Also, sixthed.

 

[MasterStratus]

Since so much of the Escapist community was against Turbine voters being encouraged to come here to vote, I'm taking that to heart and not rushing over to sign up for an account and vote for Escapist on the Webby's...It just seems wrong to support Escapist in a way their membership thinks is cheating

Seriously, stop being so smug. It hurts me. And also, I highly doubt that the ENTIRE Escapist community commented harshly on the March Mayhem threads. Possibly one third at most.
And yes, I fixed your comment a bit.

 

[MasterStratus]

Seriously, stop being so smug. It hurts me. And also, I highly doubt that the ENTIRE Escapist community commented harshly on the March Mayhem threads. Possibly one third at most.
And yes, I fixed your comment a bit.

"fixing" quotes is bad form.

You know I don't know what % of people were rude, but overall the response we received was EXTREMELY hostile, and we find it amusing now to see the tables turned this way...

Even in this thread there are a couple rude comments showing similar disrespect, its always funny when people's childish behavior comes back on them.

I apologize if I offended you by "fixing" your post, but I was bored and it was fairly simple so I decided to do it anyways. I know, I have an exciting life.

And I agree, there was unnecessarily hostile responses on that forum, but it was a bit of a stretch to say the entire community did it. Anyways, we seem to have similar opinions, and I don't want to get into an argument.