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Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:59 pm**

Hardcore.

Posted: **Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:00 pm**

Richard Brittain wrote:Hardcore.

Thanks. Glad you think so.

Posted: **Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:15 pm**

And you're not allowed to vote for yourself

Posted: **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?

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:02 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:38 am**

Alec Rivers for typing out a giant list of names.

Posted: **Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:13 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:21 pm**

You forgot Conor.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:51 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:44 pm**

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

Posted: **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. >.>

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:38 pm**

Could you please add Julie Russell to the poll?

Thanks.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:46 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:49 pm**

I'm not winning. Add Julie Russell.

Posted: **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!)

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:16 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:38 pm**

Alec?

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:32 pm**

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:34 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:58 pm**

Woohoo someone voted for me.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:21 am**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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...

Posted: **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...........

Posted: **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

Posted: **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!

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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?

Posted: **Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:54 am**

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

Posted: **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! ;- *

Posted: **Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:11 pm**

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

... thought were lovely but... ?

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:11 am**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

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