- Pierce Brosnan (7 Votes)
- Connery (3 Votes)
- Dalton and Craig (1 Vote each)
- Lazenby and Moore
New Poll is up so go vote again!
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
I've been expecting you.. er... Brosnan?
Poll results from the Bond Poll
New Poll is up so go vote again!
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New Poll is up so go vote again!
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I'm not sure I should tell Algo this, but the poll allows you to vote more than once. It resets the cookie (or whatever) after a day or so.
ReplyDeleteI personally voted about 5 times on this poll.
Sorry :-)
How very annoying of you. What was the point of doing that?
ReplyDeletePlus, the cookie removal would be on YOUR computer, not on the poll.
I guess it was done because you made it clear that voting for Brosnan was the wrong answer. When you post an entry chastising your readers for not voting the way you would (and when you use the words 'Crikey! Will sanity prevail' I take that as chastisement), you're kind of opening yourself up for something like this to happen.
ReplyDeleteI thought the whole idea of putting a readers poll on your blog was to understand what the opinion of the readers of your blog was, rather than trying to tell them what their opinion should be.
And my point about the cookie was that on my computer it would indicate whether I had voted or not (thereby closing the poll to me for a further vote), but once it went from my computer the poll would open up again allowing me to re-vote.
Oh and by the way I won't be voting more than once in the Doctor Who poll. You have my vote and as long as sanity prevails and Sylvester McCoy doesn't win I'm happy.
Gary
P.S What news from Ray Knight?
Golly,
ReplyDeleteI had no idea the way to chastise someone about how they are running a poll is to deliberately sabotage it... that's sort of counter productive, don't you think?
The purpose of the polls on my site, as opposed to your explanation, is to answer the question for me, and so I have something more to talk about, not to definitively answer deep philosophical questions. If you want to screw them up, fine, but it seems a little petty.
As it happens, I don't mind too much about any of the answers but the whole point is to set up a response from me otherwise.
Please enter into the spirit of things, Gary!
I see where the confusion has arisen.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall form the original poll it said something like "Here's an Empire poll to keep you going until I come up with a better one. Who was the best James Bond"
A reasonable interpretation of that (i.e one which a reasonably intelligent person would have expected to deduce from that) was that you were expecting your readers to inform you about who their choice of Bond was. I now find out that the actual reason for your poll (from your previous comment) is "is to answer the question for me, and so I have something more to talk about, not to definitively answer deep philosophical questions" - ergo you were not expecting actual answers, just something you could rail against in a subsequent post. This is, indeed, what occurred.
By that logic it didn't really matter whether the answers were accurate (or indeed valid), just that they were answers that you could comment on. By that calculation you got exactly what you wanted, didn't you? (incidentally it is the same thing that is happening with your Doctor Who poll: posts entitled "Sigh... and now Tom Baker..." indicate quite clearly that you are expecting a different result to that shown)
Now if you genuinely wanted to know who your readers thought was the 'best' Bond, so that you could, maybe, write a post which (objectively) compared the most popular choice to your choice, then this would have been a different matter. But by posting an entry entitled "Brosnan? Really?" while the poll was still running and berating your readers for having the nerve, nay audacity, to choose someone different from your favourite, you removed yourself from any moral high ground regarding poll results. Don't you think?
It would be interesting if any of your other readers felt a little perturbed to find out - after taking the time to vote - that they had effectively 'got it wrong'?
Lets find out if that's the case.
ReplyDeleteI deleted my earlier response since it didn't really add anything to the discussion.
What I will say is that many times commentary continues during a voting system (for example, during a general election) and talking heads frequently state their opinions while voting is still going on.
But hey, I'd rather keep the readership than piss them off.
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P.S. I really didn;t expect this to be the most controversial thing here!
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What's with that?
Some people eh?...Go figure!
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