VOTE FOR BOARDS!!!!

DeVore

Ok,
So stage 1 of the operation is complete... we've forced them to put us on their list of candidates. (much to their disgust btw! most of the others are advertisers on their site you see...http://www.internetawards.ie/)

Anyhoo... Now we just have to actually *cast* our votes

Go to http://www.internetawards.ie/election/votesiteform.cfm
Fill in your details and when they send you the mail just click on the link embedded in it.

I think the current leader after several weeks is on 6 votes so I think we can win this if we all vote

It would be cool if people who vote just replied here to say "yup done it!" so that I know they dont try and cheat us.

Thanks,
DeV.

Edited so we dont restrict anyones freedoms...


[This message has been edited by DeVore (edited 17-07-2000).]

deRanged

just tried and it went splat.
said "This page cannot be displayed"
at http://www.internetawards.ie/election/actvote.cfm?

MiCr0

devore
the redirect after submit doesn't work.
is it just me ?

DeVore

Their site is down atm (typical).

Give it a try later (or check http://www.internetawards.ie/ to see if they back up).

DeV.

MiCr0

make sure that u put in a contact number

it worked for me on teh ii site

Shiminay

Done

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All the best,

Dav
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My page of stuff

Pretence

Tis done

Trojan

Done.

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Reader's Choice: Boards.ie

Journalist of the Year: John Mc Cormac

[This message has been edited by Trojan (edited 13-07-2000).]

Draco

Done and done.

Draco

Draco

Er, why is Boards.ie just refered to as "Board"?

Draco

Hobbes

Done but, it says you will get an email and click on the link... no email.

.. no wait... got it

The following are the votes you will enter into our system if you click on the link above!

Reader's Choice: Boards.ie

Industry Person of the Year: Colm Grealy/Barry Flanagan

Industry Person of the Year: Denis 0'Brien

Journalist of the Year: John Mc Cormac

Thought I'd vote for others, seeing as I know them. or of them.

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bubbles

Well Well mr. DeVore... I went to your "special" voting page and was sooo pleased to see that you decided who I am to vote for with preselected boxes, and in some case all other options removed.

Thanks for helping me make up my mind, after all I can't do a thing for myself and I would never have my own opinion.

After seeing that i nearly didn't vote, I don't apricate other people telling me who I should vote for.



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Hobbes

Have you read the website.

Devore did you have to pay to enter? Btw the winner isn't based on the votes. Although I'd like to see them give the prize away to someone with sod all votes.

Excelsior

it is done de vore

Hobbes

Originally posted by bubbles:
Well Well mr. DeVore... I went to your "special" voting page and was sooo pleased to see that you decided who I am to vote for with preselected boxes, and in some case all other options removed.

Thanks for helping me make up my mind, after all I can't do a thing for myself and I would never have my own opinion.

After seeing that i nearly didn't vote, but I don't apricate other people telling me who I should vote for.

Your lucky you got my vote.

Hey Muppet boy. why not just go to the main website and vote? All he did was remove the other entrants in thier areas so you don't accidently misvote.

bubbles

yes hobbes, but the link Dev game in his post up there ----^ gave the link to go and vote, and 9 out of 10 ppl will go to that page to vote.

And therefore when someone gos to that page they prob don't know they have a choice, cos it is hidden from them !

El_Presidente

Done

Terra

done

Lucutus

Done, we rock, pointy thing goes to us! Yay. (Actually, they break really easy, g/f got one last year and the top cracked off after it fell off the table, boards.ie don't really want one, having said that, the dinner was nice )

Trojan

Ah jeez, I just went to the site (root homepage) - first bloody thing I see is a warning and a stupid slow dling flash! Remember, your stop button does not stop a flash download...

Now I'm not a "flash is evil" person but how can these people assume to judge internet awards?

Grr,
Al.

Shinji

Done... God, their website is brutal. I especially like the clever trick of having the links at the top totally unreadable even on very high contrast screens.

LoLth

wheeeeeeeeeeee!

I mean, done.

WhiteWashMan

done

Venom

Done.

Im with Rob on this one-that web sites sucks.


And then some

Ven(did you scroll all the way down here)om

DeVore

Some points to answer...

Draco Says:

Er, why is Boards.ie just refered to as "Board"?

Well, initially it said even less. It just put up a link. No description at all. After we complained and they put us up as "Board".
Ho hum, we're still going to win.

Bubbles Rants stuff about constricting his "vision"...

Ok, yes we limited the options. We actually thought people here would see the funny side of us exploiting their lack of referrer-URL checking.

Do you REALLY honestly think we sat here and thought "You know, if we dont give them options they'll HAVE to vote for boards.ie"

Yes... yes... actually we did... then Regi and Vex and I laughed "Muuuahhahaha the fools they have played directly into our hands, soon this world will be ours Muuuahhahahahah *cough* hahaha"

We also were banking on you all overlooking the cunning decoy url directly to the awards site I placed in original post.

And bubbles, three shakes is enough sweetums


The fact is that this whole thing is dodgy and smells. I want to make a show of them by using the power of community to FORCE them to acknowledge this site. I want it to be soooo undenyable that they will loose all credibility should we not be awarded the prize. If we get an awards statue we'll probably raffle it amongst us.

Personally I just want to see an award go a site that is actually doing something with the general users of the internet rather then some knob-jockey marketing types bumchum mate who knocked up some corporate-ware. Ahem... I've said too much

FYI Boards.ie has broken the quarter million impressions a month barrier and is ranked 28th in Irish traffic.

DeV.

Molly

it doesn't work
what exactly do u get 4 winning????/

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When ya want it goes away too fast times ya hate it always seem to last secretdeathsquad.clanpages.com

DeVore

Um, in what way is it not working?

Afaik, we get absolutely nothing. Maybe a statue or something. We certainly dont get bags of cash or anything (God I wish we did )

DeVore.

Mills

Done

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I am inflatible !

Bloody Drunkard

done

LegacyUser

Appreciate it folks! Keep it going...

John (currently in Blacksburg, Virginia).
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Irish Newspapers
http://www.irishnewspapers.com/

Hobbes

Devore don't forget to take a printout of the 1500+ usernames and thank each one individually for thier help.

ffs... have to sit through a webcast to see who won last year. What drugs are these people taking?

BossArky

Done

Illkillya

dun

SHADOW

tis a done deed
N

ThunderingMike

Dunne

DeVore

See SEE how our glorious leader Cloud has led us to conquer whole new continents! Nothing NOTHING can stop us now!

Muuuhahahhahah*cough*hahaha

DeV.

Wyverne

the king has voted hail hail woooohooooo hehe tis done ya

bonjour
salut
bienvenue
wilkommen
ya ya tis twue


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tis done for you mien vaddar, hehe j/kiding dev

its all kewl was goping to vote for boards.ie anyway just didnt know where

Trojan

Originally posted by Hobbes:
Btw the winner isn't based on the votes

Haven't read the site - how is it decided?

what feicin time is it in boston ffs?

Al.

Monty - the one and only

tis done

Hobbes

You know the more I read this site, the more it's going to show how corrupt Ireland is.

I don't know if everyone knows the peoples in the list but some of the judges are or were very close to people who are entered.... Actually one of the Judges has thier own site entered!. Some of the people entered are also doing the advertising on the pages (eg. Today FM).

What makes a winner
These will be the winners of the National Internet Business Awards 2000 - nominees that innovate, inspire, achieve their objectives, add value to an organisation and are genuinely pioneering.

Judging Criteria
The specific judging criteria for all site award categories are:
- Effectiveness in meeting objectives
- Innovation and excellence in design
- Value of content
- Ease of navigation
- Innovative use of technologies

Additional judging criteria with specific relevance to a particular category may be used. Click on the individual award categories to check these out.

There is also more categories then you can vote on? Someone explain that.

oh yea Trojan, always -5 hours.

Stephen

Done!
TAKE IT silly corrupt worthless awards people

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Rev Hellfire

Done.

jmcc

Originally posted by Hobbes:
You know the more I read this site, the more it's going to show how corrupt Ireland is.

The whole internetawards.ie thing is a farce just like most other Irish web awards events. I originally posted a message on the IIA Webmaster list about how suspect the whole thing was, especially questioning the impartiality of the selection - all of the selection seemed to be past or current Web Ireland advertisers. Yahoo.co.uk, the winner in last year's awards wasn't even operating in Ireland at the time it won and only opened an advertising office after the event as far as I remember. HackWatch made it to the top four and though the "winners" were promised £9K of consultancy from a leading Irish web firm, nobody seemed to have got anything and HackWatch was not even contacted.

The post on WST upset those delicate technology journalists in Web Ireland. I got a phonecall from the editor of WI next day and he was very upset having read the message I posted on "the bulletin board" [sic]. My first question was whether the selection were past or current advertisers. Second was about who selected the candidates. It turned out that it was himself, Andrew McLindon, and his deputy copywriter. I was then told that I was seeing conspiracies everywhere. Basically that is what is known as a non-denial denial. Web Ireland had been caught stuffing their e-lection thing with their friends and non-lethal choices (Apart from John Sterne who is a very good journo). What really irritated me was that the main choices in the journo section were people who's primary output is bland cliche riddled press release rewrites. Web Ireland is a magazine that is increasingly irrelevant. It is merely advertising punctuated by exerises in sequential spelling.

And the webcast of last year's event - I was lucky to have a pot of Jamacian Blue Mountain coffee and some paracetemol to hand. The production was so poor that it was like some really naff seventies porno film but without the funny dialogue.

I guess the ultimate irony is that Web Ireland does not actually have a real website - other than a bit of content free brochureware.

Regards...jmcc

Canaboid

Thanks for that John.
Err, I mean done.

spod

Originally posted by DeVore:
Ok, yes we limited the options. We actually thought people here would see the funny side of us exploiting their lack of referrer-URL checking.

Ah come on now, it's not exactly a big deal even if they did bother checking HTTP-REFERER, should take all of 30 seconds to sort out that little hurdle.

Oh, and as soon as internetawards.ie are up I'ill vote.

spod

j00 h4v3 my v0t3 d00d.

Cerberus

don't know why I I did it,
don't know why I liked doing it,
and I don't know why I'll do it again.

Ah..done it

Baz_

Done, but like the last post I saw, I don't know why???

Lump

GWAN THE BOARDS

john

DeVore

L33t!

Stephen

Originally posted by Baz_:
Done, but like the last post I saw, I don't know why???

To stick it to those muppets with their corrupt pat-on-the-back awards.