Hello Judith, It's not fair considering this has always been a CFDJ Subscriber drive and NEVER had anything do to with BEST, worst or whatever... so if I'm able to drive more subscribers to the site then we should win. Quite simply the awards are going to go to the heaviest advertisers with the new vote counting procedure. The awards never meant much and this year they are simply a PERK to the advertisers of CFDJ plain and simple.
It's like advertising a president up for election on FOX news channel and then congress giving everyone that's seen the FOX ad's twice as much voting power as the rest. Who do you think would win? There wouldn't of been any Florida debate, it would of been a landslide victory for the 2x power voters. Kind Regards, Mike Randolph At 12:16 AM 5/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Mike, > > > * As part of our 2003 Readers' Choice Awards Voting Process - ACTIVE > > subscribers (Advertising viewers) of ColdFusion Developer's Journal votes > > will be qualified as 2 points in our voting tally. New subscribers votes > > will count as 1 point. Subscription records are verified as of the > start of > > voting - March 31, 2003. > > > WHY I'M MAD: Please note that without this tainting we would quite likely > > be winning (or likely could win) the Best eBusiness Software category. The > > leader in the 'Most Innovative CF Application' is a ColdFusion Application > > SERVER, but they advertise a lot so what the heck right. > >So what you're saying is that people who are long time subscribers to CFDJ >(Before March 31st) and have had more exposure to the advertisers will >vote on that basis rather than from their own experience with the products >involved. How many people who subscribe to CFDJ really read it cover to >cover, and how many are so affected by the advertising? > >(I would love it if someone from CFDJ would explain the reason behind this >distinction in the voting. I don't think it's fair either, and I'd like to >know why they made that change. But I am wondering whether it makes a real >difference here.) > >Judith > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
