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  • 23-02-2009 7:51pm
    #1
    m-a-i-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭


    Well? I am just at it now. So far so good


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  • #2
    m-a-i-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭m-a-i-


    Its getting pretty scandalous now... a few oooooo's were thrown about and a few mean things were said by a number of candiates


  • #3
    banquo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    Rob for VP Comms here.

    I hope too many of the mean things weren't by me! Although I know a few of them were...


  • #4
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    banquo wrote: »
    Rob for VP Comms here.

    I hope too many of the mean things weren't by me! Although I know a few of them were...

    Care to specify before the bells are added?


  • #5
    banquo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    Heh. I remember answering to the idea that you don't need any experience to be a good editor by asking if anybody had read the latest issue of The Spoke with the two pages cut out(referring to Richard's 100% lack of experience before he started), that got a few 'oohs'...

    Mai, did I see you sitting near the very back with a silver laptop?

    Now, let the slating begin, as the creed of the Internet doth command...


  • #6
    PrivateEye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    What was the attendance? Very curious.


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  • #7
    Rozabeez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    I was interested in seeing the last lot but just had to leave because it went on very long, was beginning to wilt :p

    Banquo, you did very well I think!


  • #8
    m-a-i-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭m-a-i-


    Yes I did have a laptop but I was in the middle of the room. I don't think any candidates were specifically mean or anything. Just a few questions were a bit Oh s/he didn't just say that. I suppose the main one that stuck my mind was the spoke questions. I had to leave before welfare sadly. Could someone tell me how did everyone get on there?


  • #9
    cython
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,799 ✭✭✭cython


    banquo, personally I think you shot yourself in the foot in at least one instance, specifically when you were talking about the article you were asked to write at 4:30am about a jazz musician. What I got from it was that you filled upt hte article with random phrases that could be applied broadly to any number of musicians, for the sake of padding out the article to the 2000 words (I think) that you were asked for. If that's your take on good, solid content, I fail to see any real improvement to the Spoke coming from it


  • #10
    banquo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    cython wrote: »
    If that's your take on good, solid content

    Did you not listen to the question asked? IT wasn't a question on content. It was a question on if and then how we will bring volunteer writers up to a decent standard level of writing. I said we could get them to the point where we could get them to write really well about anything, even nothing.

    Anyway, I want to hear more about the other candidates. How did Oneka and Eoin do?

    I'm not voting for Ross Barratt, but he was much better than I expected yesterday.


  • #11
    cython
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,799 ✭✭✭cython


    banquo wrote: »
    Did you not listen to the question asked? IT wasn't a question on content. It was a question on if and then how we will bring volunteer writers up to a decent standard level of writing. I said we could get them to the point where we could get them to write really well about anything, even nothing.

    Anyway, I want to hear more about the other candidates. How did Oneka and Eoin do?

    I'm not voting for Ross Barratt, but he was much better than I expected yesterday.

    To me the fact that the question was not about content is irrelevant. Your campaign has complained about the Spoke being filled with poor content, and then you turned around and said (as you have confirmed here) that you would train writers to be able to write well but possibly about nothing. The appearance of a publication is nothing without content, and your answer smacked of someone who was putting appearance ahead of content. If that is indeed the case, then the phrase "polished turd" springs to mind......

    As for how the other candidates did, I felt that Oneka let herself down specifically by saying she would work with the editor of the Spoke, which suggested that she didn't realise that it would be her in that job were she to be elected. Eoin seemed to address the overall position pretty well, in both development and comms, as opposed to narrowing in specifically on the Spoke and the website as is done year in, year out. He also seemed to be the only one to address the changes to the job of organising campaigns as introduced in the latest constitution.


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