Personally I like to think that the "ColdFusion Community" is made up of more than just developers. For example a while back (before our merger) we had management that would defend the use of the product based on ROI, cost to production, etc. They may keep up with the general state of affairs (XML capabilities, Flash integration, etc) but couldn't really code a line.
They may have valid opinions on tools and products as well. Granted their opinions may (if they're good) be influenced by their developers, but also by the ease of integration, cost, etc. Jim Davis President, http://www.depressedpress.com Webmaster, http://www.firstnight.org Webmaster, http://www.cfAdvocacy.org Senior Consultant, http://www.metlife.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Randolph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:57 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: House of Fusion Awards > > Hello, > > Get together a list of 1000 ColdFusion Questions and present 25 at > random. To vote you need to score 60% or better? This along with some > careful monitoring of the voting process would allow anyone in the CF > community to vote and would assure it was representative of the CF > community at large, it also would allow for House of Fusion to expand > there > list with real users. > > Maybe make it a hundred questions and have an Award for the person that > does the best to further slow the vote stuffing process and shield from > bad > votes? > > Cheers, > Mike Randolph > > At 12:07 PM 6/5/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >Hello, > > > >It's always been a popularity contest/subscriber drive and everyone would > >have the same fair shake in regards to getting family and friends to > >vote... so long as everyone has an equal vote. Me living in a town where > >we only have 18 kids in the local school from K-12 actually puts me at a > >disadvantage in these regards. But I really still do like the idea of > >requiring a credit card to vote and donating the money do a worthy > >charity. That would keep the fraudulent voting to a minimum. Either way > >we've seen about 1000 votes for the CFDJ voting and it doesn't go up that > >much each day, I truly don't think it would be an enormous task to keep > the > >voting semi-square. > > > >Cheers, > >Mike Randolph > > > >At 03:54 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, you wrote: > > >Well I think that anyone that signs up after a certain date shouldn't > be > > >allowed to vote. > > >Reasoning is that it prevents a rush of people sent by the companies > > >being represented to vote for that company's product. > > > > > >Take things to the extreme. > > > > > >Take for example if Ablecommerce is up for an award, then Mike could > get > > >everyone in his little town of Alaska to join HOF and vote for his able > > >commerce program.This may be extreme, but it could very well happen, > and > > >in that case it wouldn't be people in the community or from the > industry > > >that are voting for the products. It would be just people signing up > and > > >artificially inflating a vote. > > > > > >The point of the thing is to have people who are a part of coldfusion > > >and use coldfusion to do the voting. Not Jack Hick Dooby who sells > > >sealskins and is getting paid 5 bucks to signup and click for a > product. > > > > > >-Gel > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >I'd watch the new subscribers carefully after a certain date but would > > >not stop people from voting. > > > > > >I'm not sure. I didn't hear much along these lines. > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
