evolkatsAnd the cheating gets worse, at least that is the take from Tales from the Ballot Box. I don’t agree. I mean don’t get me wrong rabid fangirls are bad news but fangirls… well we all have a lil fangirl in us don’t we?

And really, raise your hand if you are expecting ANY best of [name your year here] poll about romance novels (or hell anything) to be the hard truth. The cold facts. The what the hell ever.

cynicalI love the year end shit. I use them for rec’s. They are fun to mock. They can even be fun to do. But personally I haven’t voted yet in the AAR poll. For two reasons really, the whole voting process is set up to take 100 years and oddly I think something would be wrong with my ballot… and it would end up where ever Jimmy Hoffa is.

So what about you? What do you think? Is it bad for an author to post – yo poll here. And those nasty fangirls come out to play? Are you gonna vote? Do you care? Do you think too much fucking thought has gone into it sucking the fun out of it?

My thoughts on the whole cheater, cheater, fangirl beater would be here. Or you can’t be arsed to go there, you can see it behind the cut.


Same thoughts as last year…

Posted by Sybil on January 29, 2007 at 13:38:25:

How can you judge what ‘the general romance readership’ does or doesn’t like? And a large part of that ‘general romance readership’ doesn’t come to AAR, so if they hear about the poll and come vote, what right do you have to throw out the vote?

That fangirl could honestly believe that book is IT. They could think it is the bestest evah that year. So what? You trash their vote cuz… It might not be so much about OMG lets make our author win, win, win as much as oh cool lets vote. Don’t get me wrong, I think rabid fangirls are the evol but if you are going to have an open vote, why treat them as a lower life form?

No online poll means anything. This one won’t anymore than the others did but it is fun to talk about, helps people find rec’s and whatever. But you are invalidating your own results by throwing out votes from people you deem fangirls or have an adgenda.

I know I am in the minority but to me cheating is 1 person voting more than once. If five different people come in and vote for the same books, throwing out those votes is cheating.

Wouldn’t it be simple enough to have ‘true’ AAR readers sign up for a super secret message board or something and only let the smart readers of AAR who don’t vote for the same book twice and spend a few hours filing out the ballot.

Of course I have no idea how in the world Ask For It is anyones favorite funny, so what do I know. And seriously think this is being over thought but hey such is the life of fandom.