"Steven Schveighoffer" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:16:40 -0400, dsimcha <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What's the policy for people who submitted articles? If we don't >> officially have >> one, I think everyone who submitted an article should vote for any >> article except >> their own. If submitters are allowed to vote for themselves, of course >> they all >> will and their votes will effectively cancel out. I think it's best to >> give each >> submitter a meaningful vote as to what the best other article is. > > There were never any rules about authors of articles not being able to > vote. Since all of us had posted to the newsgroup prior to the > announcement, we can all vote. > > I was planning on voting for the best article besides my own because I > think that's the gentlemanly thing to do. But there are no rules as far > as whether you can vote for your own article or not. I.e. if you want to > vote for your own article, there is no rule against that. > > -Steve
If other authors vote for themselves, then I'd want to vote for myself as well. However, I much prefer Steve's plan of voting for someone other than himself. I agree it's "the gentlemanly thing to do". Besides, if most of us do vote for ourselves, then they'll pretty much just cancel out anyway. So I have a proposal: Even if we are technically allowed to vote for ourselves, I propose that we all agree not to. With Steve and I in favor of this, that makes it 2 out of the 5 so far. So how about it, Jonathan, Dave and Robert?
