This thread = hand-staple-forehead sometimes.

I think it's _generally_ safe to assume that entrants would vote for themselves regardless of whether or not they were registered here beforehand and regardless of whether or not they got to the finals [I understand some _may_ be altruistic enough not to.]

Ergo the easiest way to solve the problem of "I can't cast a vote for myself because I wasn't registered before X" is to simply not count votes from any entrants/finalists, or to add 1 to the tally for your own video [i.e. assume you voted for yourselves and not shoot yourselves in the foot]. Since entrants [not finalists] stand to gain nothing from voting at this stage, you may as well count them amongst the voters.

The results are the same so its moot.


I don't think its _that_ unfair to restrict votes to people registered before the contest was anounced; at least it's not as unfair as popularity voting. It would probably be best in the future to either (a) get judges to vote for the winner straight away - but that wouldn't get the ITT community involved; or (b) get votes from *active* ITT forum members, which is _kindof_ the way its being done now albeit crudely [but effectively.]


At the end of the day you want to fix the issue of popularity voting i.e. exclude dormant accounts from casting votes and perhaps one way to define this in future is to use the default forum descriptions for people under their names "junior members, member, senior member, administrators, etc".


As a first for Dan - I think it's a learning experience and I'm sure in the future when he's giving away N900s, N950s, N1Ks, etc he'll have a list of foolproof rules setup beforehand. He's done a spiffing job so far and I think he's acheived what he wanted from the competition, so kudos to him


Congrats to all of the finalists, good luck tomorrow! I'd be very interested to see who's won

it's tonight!!!
V. excited.

If anyone is interested I've set up my own poll. Totally informal and it's non-binding. You see I need help deciding on a name for my travel blog. I've got a few shortlisted and I'm being indecisive. Help me out

http://craig.stanton.net.nz/poll.html

Winners - I turned on my ability to receive messages over YouTube. Please send me your preference of "second prize" (ranked 1-4)

Youtube gave me a 500 Internal Server Error when trying to reply, so I've sent you my reply in a PM here.

-Jennifer

I got the same message...

And the winner is?

Well... if you don't know and the other two were asked to pick other prizes... it looks like it's down to ninja or pkick. And if the way pkick's votes jumped indicated voting based on nepotism, I'd say it's ninja.

Hate to say it but - not me. I was asked to pick as well (but my message went through fine on YouTube). I thought it was a general call out to everyone but I could be wrong.

There's still 8 hours of 11/30 left on the east coast. Asking what people's choice would be for other prize makes sense at this point. No need to wait with that 'till tomorrow.

No the vote definitely closed, the message at the top has changed. It was previously stating the deadline in your local timezone. For me it said Nov 30th 6:04pm, and that was 14 hours ago. I also got asked for my pick of the other prizes. It was address to "all winners..."