1st September 2003, 11:02 PM
It's not even a battle though, it's a popularity contest. It's not about who would win in a fight. Also, I've actually found there's a divide and two communities at GameFAQs. There's the large number of people who ONLY go there for the guides and are barely even aware the polls exist on any level, and then the people who use the message boards too. We all know the average intelligence of the people who post there. I do believe it's the people who post who vote in the polls far more often than the former. I myself tend to ignore most of the polls, though I have posted in the boards before, mainly to find out something (tried several times, each time my question was ignored or answered with a comment that is both completely ignorant and intended to insult me, so I gave up posting there).
Last year's votes were stupid. This year's votes ARE stupid. And people who comment on the "fairness" of it, like a bunch of people voting out who they don't like, or something stupid like "but they are SUPPOSED to win because I'd like to see those guys going at it in the final round, even though this isn't actually a battle so it's more like they would both be sitting in some room quietly waiting for the votes to come in for class president".
Stop acknowledging this thing, and for the love of Ghazpork DON'T make one here!
Last year's votes were stupid. This year's votes ARE stupid. And people who comment on the "fairness" of it, like a bunch of people voting out who they don't like, or something stupid like "but they are SUPPOSED to win because I'd like to see those guys going at it in the final round, even though this isn't actually a battle so it's more like they would both be sitting in some room quietly waiting for the votes to come in for class president".
Stop acknowledging this thing, and for the love of Ghazpork DON'T make one here!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)