A Poll: Who are your favourite members?

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:31 pm

On a positive note and for the sake of balance, let's see which members come out on top. You can vote for up to ten people who you like and/or respect, based on their forum contributions. I was limited to 100 names so if anyone's missing then I'm sorry about that. I think all the regular posters are here, though.

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:59 pm

Hardcore.

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:00 pm

Richard Brittain wrote:Hardcore.

Thanks. Glad you think so.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:15 pm

And you're not allowed to vote for yourself

Brian Moore · Post by **Brian Moore** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:34 pm

Time to double the popcorn order, but will the bloodsport on the other channel prove more exciting? More interestingly, will any candidate be able to come near the top of both contests, and will blatant public canvassing result in disqualification?

Paul Howe · Post by **Paul Howe** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:42 pm

Kirk Bevins wrote:And you're not allowed to vote for yourself

I'm almost tempted to vote for myself just to prove that someone else voted for me.

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:01 pm

Brian Moore wrote:... will the bloodsport on the other channel prove more exciting?

I don't doubt it for a moment. And isn't that a sad reflection of our culture: we take more pleasure in showing our contempt than our appreciation.

Matthew Green · Post by **Matthew Green** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:02 pm

I voted for Supee and Richard Brittain, simply because they should have been the only candidates.

Brian Moore · Post by **Brian Moore** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:42 pm

Alec Rivers wrote:
Brian Moore wrote:... will the bloodsport on the other channel prove more exciting?
And isn't that a sad reflection of our culture: we take more pleasure in showing our contempt than our appreciation.

I'm not entirely sure that it's merely a cultural thing ... there are bits of our hardwiring which respond in different ways to different stimuli. In the visual field, it's extremely difficult to view 2D shapes as 2D shapes, and I suspect that our hardwiring is programmed to some extent, whatever our intellects tell us, to find visceral excitement in conflict and 'blood on the floor'. Stephen Pinker'sThe Blank Slate is worth reading, if you've got good eyesight or a magnifying glass, and don't fully buy this 'cultural' thing.

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:30 pm

Brian Moore wrote:Stephen Pinker's The Blank Slate is worth reading

It is indeed.

Brian Moore wrote:... if you've got good eyesight ...

This.

JackHurst · Post by **JackHurst** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:38 am

Alec Rivers for typing out a giant list of names.

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:13 pm

JackHurst wrote:Alec Rivers for typing out a giant list of names.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:30 pm

Personally I think it should be compulsory to vote for yourself, since otherwise it just punishes the honest voters. But there were too many other awesomers to vote for, so I didn't.

Having narrowed it down to my favourite 15 or so, I then picked the 10 who I thought might actually care. For example I'm sure Jono doesn't give a shit, even though his occasional posts are among my absolute favourites, so I didn't vote for him. But I won't reveal who I did vote for until after the closing date.

Jimmy Gough · Post by **Jimmy Gough** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:21 pm

You forgot Conor.

Phil Makepeace · Post by **Phil Makepeace** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:28 pm

Jimmy Gough wrote:You forgot Conor.

No posts for two months and only five since February doesn't really suggest activity.

Philip Jarvis · Post by **Philip Jarvis** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:51 pm

Looks like somebody inadvertently clicked on my name when trying to vote for Phil Reynolds.

Phil Reynolds · Post by **Phil Reynolds** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:07 pm

Phil Makepeace wrote:
Jimmy Gough wrote:You forgot Conor.
No posts for two months and only five since February doesn't really suggest activity.

Two people have so far voted for someone called Supee Juachan, who has never posted at all. Given Alec's specification of the voting criteria ("people who you like and/or respect, based on their forum contributions") I suppose this could be taken as perfectly valid, on the grounds that someone who signs up to the board, then sees what goes on here and quietly decides not to post thereby probably deserves more respect than the rest of us put together.

Matthew Green · Post by **Matthew Green** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:31 pm

Supee deserves to be on any list of great human beings simply for attempting to play apterous while clearly having no grasp of the English language.

Martin Bishop · Post by **Martin Bishop** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:55 pm

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Phil Makepeace wrote:
Jimmy Gough wrote:You forgot Conor.
No posts for two months and only five since February doesn't really suggest activity.
Two people have so far voted for someone called Supee Juachan, who has never posted at all. Given Alec's specification of the voting criteria ("people who you like and/or respect, based on their forum contributions") I suppose this could be taken as perfectly valid, on the grounds that someone who signs up to the board, then sees what goes on here and quietly decides not to post thereby probably deserves more respect than the rest of us put together.

Or it could be interpreted as a calculated attempt to demoralise any person who has checked the poll every day since its inception in a vain and futile search for somebody, anybody, to have voted for them, despite the fact that such a result would go against years of experience in internet forum-based popularity contests and life in general.

Matthew Green · Post by **Matthew Green** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:44 pm

I think anyone who didn't vote for themselves deserves one bonus point.

Hugh Binnie · Post by **Hugh Binnie** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:36 pm

Phil Makepeace wrote:
Jimmy Gough wrote:You forgot Conor.
No posts for two months and only five since February doesn't really suggest activity.

Nowhere does it say the contributions have to be on this forum. >.>

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:45 pm

Matthew Green wrote:I think anyone who didn't vote for themselves deserves one bonus point.

Collect your bonus point by voting for yourself.

Matthew Green · Post by **Matthew Green** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:37 am

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Matthew Green wrote:I think anyone who didn't vote for themselves deserves one bonus point.
Collect your bonus point by voting for yourself.

Oh dear Gavin.

John Bosley · Post by **John Bosley** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:42 am

I have not voted because I realised I could not vote for myself 10 times - and this whole exercise could be pretty degrading for some of us.

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:15 pm

John Bosley wrote:... this whole exercise could be pretty degrading for some of us.

With so many people on here, being the 11th person someone thinks of (and therefore not receiving a vote) is surely no disgrace. It's not a particularly scientific poll, anyway. Maybe I should have set the voting limit at 99.

Ian Dent · Post by **Ian Dent** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:38 pm

Could you please add Julie Russell to the poll?

Thanks.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:46 pm

If you edit the poll options it resets all the counters. So I wouldn't do that.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:46 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:If you edit the poll options it resets all the counters. So I wouldn't do that.

I think it's worth it to include Julie Russell.

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:49 pm

I'm not winning. Add Julie Russell.

Derek Hazell · Post by **Derek Hazell** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:58 pm

If you vote for Peter Mabey he'll Julie Russell up some support for her from his total.

(Just killed my chance of any more votes now by posting something bloody stupid in the very thread people are looking at when they're voting!)

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:01 pm

Derek Hazell wrote:(Just killed my chance of any more votes now by posting something bloody stupid in the very thread people are looking at when they're voting!

I liked it!

But then I'd already cast my vote(s) anyway.

Davy Affleck · Post by **Davy Affleck** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:10 pm

Matt Morrison wrote:I'm not winning. Add Julie Russell.

I won't vote for her. She gubbed me.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:11 pm

Davy Affleck wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:I'm not winning. Add Julie Russell.
I won't vote for her. She gubbed me.

Blimey, that would guarantee her my vote.

Matthew Green · Post by **Matthew Green** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:16 pm

I'm still waiting patiently for A. Poll's decision.

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:42 pm

Matthew Green wrote:I'm still waiting patiently for A. Poll's decision.

lol. She's busy until next month.

Ian Dent · Post by **Ian Dent** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:38 pm

Alec?

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:32 pm

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:32 pm

Ian Dent wrote:Alec?

is not enough cause for a sexual assault complaint, so I've discovered. Chalk one up to the sexpests.

Sue Sanders · Post by **Sue Sanders** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:24 am

Hey, can I have one of my votes back please? Now that Dinos and Jono are a hybrid I've got a spare one.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:34 pm

Woohoo, five votes now. The cheques are in the post.

Derek Hazell · Post by **Derek Hazell** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:22 pm

My favourite member is Huw. He registered on the very first day, and then spent two whole minutes on the site. "Huw" indeed.

Marc Meakin · Post by **Marc Meakin** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:58 pm

Woohoo someone voted for me.

Chris Corby · Post by **Chris Corby** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:21 am

Might as well close this now - the Corbys are clearly the favourites

Sue Sanders · Post by **Sue Sanders** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:25 am

Chris Corby wrote:Might as well close this now - the Corbys are clearly the favourites

Fuck - thought I was voting for the trouser press.

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:39 am

Sue Sanders wrote:
Chris Corby wrote:Might as well close this now - the Corbys are clearly the favourites
Fuck - thought I was voting for the trouser press.

Let's see what you could have won...

Chris Corby · Post by **Chris Corby** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:28 am

Brilliant Alec.... and Sue I think you are getting confused. A Corby trouser press is something that works best in hotel bedrooms where, after you have taken off your clothes, you slip in between two rigid sides and spend several hours with it turned on whilst heat is generated, whereas the Corbys.... no, hang on, I am getting myself confused now...........

Sue Sanders · Post by **Sue Sanders** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:30 am

Chris Corby wrote:Brilliant Alec.... and Sue I think you are getting confused. A Corby trouser press is something that works best in hotel bedrooms where, after you have taken off your clothes, you slip in between two rigid sides and spend several hours with it turned on whilst heat is generated, whereas the Corbys.... no, hang on, I am getting myself confused now...........

Funny. You can at least TURN OFF a Corby trouser press

Derek Hazell · Post by **Derek Hazell** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:08 am

Congratulations to Charlie and the Corbys for winning this, and thank you to those who voted for me!

James Robinson · Post by **James Robinson** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:15 am

I'd personally like to thank the 2 people who were very kind to vote for me on this poll too?

P.S. Before anyone asks, I did not vote for myself.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:25 am

James Robinson wrote:P.S. Before anyone asks, I did not vote for myself.

Who did you vote for, James?

Andy Wilson · Post by **Andy Wilson** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:54 am

Wow, i got a vote. Must have been James Doohan again!

Sue Sanders · Post by **Sue Sanders** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:52 am

If there was a poll for people who you thought were lovely when you met them, you'd have my vote, Andy. Plus a bonus vote for your cute apple cheeks! ;- *

Rosemary Roberts · Post by **Rosemary Roberts** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:11 pm

Sue Sanders wrote:... people who you thought were lovely when you met them ...

... thought were lovely but... ?

James Robinson · Post by **James Robinson** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:29 pm

Jon Corby wrote:
James Robinson wrote:P.S. Before anyone asks, I did not vote for myself.
Who did you vote for, James?

I voted for Alec, Damian, Dinos, Howard, Jason, Liam, Martyn, Niall, Philip and Rich.

Most were based on contributions, as Alec suggested, but I didn't quite reach 10, so the remaining ones are my favourite Apterites, since I thought it would be a waste not to use 10.

EDIT: I was toying around with a couple of other possibilities, but once I'd picked my 10, there was no going back.

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:14 pm

FWIW, the top of the pile is:

1 Charlie Reams 32
2 Jon Corby 24
3 Damian Eadie 21
4 Dinos Sfyris 19
5= Ben Hunter, Matt Morrison 18
7 Kai Laddiman 17
8= Phil Reynolds, Sue Sanders 16
10= Chris Corby, Jason Larsen 13

Ralph Gillions · Post by **Ralph Gillions** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:07 pm

It appears Jason hasn't been around since last Wednesday when
he blamed himself because the forum had reached a stalemate.
Not clear about the problem but he seemed upset.
(He had probably spotted his avatar had been borrowed by another.)
But seriously something was preying on his mind.
Hope he's OK.

Chris Corby · Post by **Chris Corby** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:11 am

I am tied with Jason! There's never a bucket of water handy when you need one.......

Derek Hazell · Post by **Derek Hazell** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:19 am

Chris Corby wrote:I am tied with Jason! There's never a bucket of water handy when you need one.......

The reason I included you with Jon, is I thought the same may have happened to others as happened to me. I chose my favourites, and then found that I had got more than 10 people. Struggling to know who to delete, I eventually deleted the Corby who I thought would get more votes, leaving the other Corby on my list.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:29 am

Derek Hazell wrote:
Chris Corby wrote:I am tied with Jason! There's never a bucket of water handy when you need one.......
The reason I included you with Jon, is I thought the same may have happened to others as happened to me. I chose my favourites, and then found that I had got more than 10 people. Struggling to know who to delete, I eventually deleted the Corby who I thought would get more votes, leaving the other Corby on my list.

Derek Hazell · Post by **Derek Hazell** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:40 am

Jon Corby wrote:

Aww I thought you'd have some fun with that - using it as an excuse to delare yourself the real winner.

Who are your favourite active forum members?