Re: Vote for the C&TS
| May 02, 2022 10:09AM |
KevinM Wrote:
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> I've never been a fan of these social media
> contests in which people can vote multiple times,
> and even multiple times per day, depending on how
> many discrete devices they own. The results of
> such "votes" don't really determine
> anything......other than which group of fans can
> mount the biggest ballot box stuffing
> campaign....
And if they did try to limit it to one vote per person clever nerds would be finding ways to vote multiple times anyway.
>..which is just nonsense, at least in
> my opinion.
to which you are, of course, entitled
> It's not a fair vote from past
> customers,
Some of whom will be influenced by extraneous things, like the memory of riding overlaid with memories of a then new significant other who turned out to be toxic, or a queasy stomach form eating in the wrong restaurant that morning or....
> and in particular, customers who have
> experienced the rides at all of the contending
> railroads.
Now that would be a very limited pool.
> Unless you do that, the results are
> pretty meaningless and provide baseless bragging
> rights for the winners.
aka free advertising.
> Sorry to be "Debbie Downer", but what would folks
> think of deciding local, state and federal
> elections this way? Oooh, that changes things,
> doesn't it?
Well, according to certain sore losers[1] we already do. OTOH, comparing apples and watermelons here I think.
Hank
[1] Like certain Gore 2000 supporters, amongst others more recent.
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>
> I've never been a fan of these social media
> contests in which people can vote multiple times,
> and even multiple times per day, depending on how
> many discrete devices they own. The results of
> such "votes" don't really determine
> anything......other than which group of fans can
> mount the biggest ballot box stuffing
> campaign....
And if they did try to limit it to one vote per person clever nerds would be finding ways to vote multiple times anyway.
>..which is just nonsense, at least in
> my opinion.
to which you are, of course, entitled
> It's not a fair vote from past
> customers,
Some of whom will be influenced by extraneous things, like the memory of riding overlaid with memories of a then new significant other who turned out to be toxic, or a queasy stomach form eating in the wrong restaurant that morning or....
> and in particular, customers who have
> experienced the rides at all of the contending
> railroads.
Now that would be a very limited pool.
> Unless you do that, the results are
> pretty meaningless and provide baseless bragging
> rights for the winners.
aka free advertising.
> Sorry to be "Debbie Downer", but what would folks
> think of deciding local, state and federal
> elections this way? Oooh, that changes things,
> doesn't it?
Well, according to certain sore losers[1] we already do. OTOH, comparing apples and watermelons here I think.
Hank
[1] Like certain Gore 2000 supporters, amongst others more recent.
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