It may be a loosing battle but that does not mean that oppinions do not matter. I don't know about yall but if I was to just go in and cut off a winning part of a poll in the middle of a poll with no rules to back it up my membership would chop my head off does the admin team here even know what spamming is by def:

To send (a message) indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups

Indiscriminately-
1) Not making or based on careful distinctions; unselective
2)Random; haphazard
3)Confused; chaotic
4)Unrestrained or wanton

OK Now correct me if I am wrong but this does not define what was done by Mr. Zero at all. he selected his people that he sent an Email to very carefully from a list of beta testers. That would not be defined as SPAM by any sane minded person. So I to believe that someone needs to take a closer look at the Large mistake that has been made by the Administartion here to Mr. Zero and the other past people that this has been done to.

I don't know why people are continuing to waste their time arguing about this. It's a rule - no promoting your hack in a HOTM vote. We found out it was happening, and like all the previous cases it was removed. This has not changed - and it won't ever change back for anyone, as it would be unfair on all those other contestants who hacks were removed from the poll for promoting it.

I would like to add that we already admitted this months actions will win a beauty contest, and that this rule should be more clearly visible, and that we will change that in the next run of the poll. I don't see what is left to fight about it.

PS Nobody's votes got 'reassigned'.
PSS Paying for support should show in less votes by members if they really cared about that.

hehe. Thats classic. I PMed Erwin before I released GARS. I asked him if I could release it here FOC but with a simple request that support questions were done on thevbgeek.com as it is a pain to support huge projects like that in a single thread.

The only reason GARS is a commercial hack now is because he said 'No'. I was told that Support should not be done outside of .org as it is seen as baiting.

Not that I'm complaining now! I just thought I would point out how inconsistent policies are at times. Sadly it takes a bad situation to point these hic ups out :)

Not really related to the HOTM, but that's just plain silly. It's up to the author how they support something. Even the staff support their hacks using external sites (andreas, journal ....).

They haven't, that's just a poll display bug in 3.0

Yup - very silly, not related to HOTM but very much related to inconsistant rules being applied willy nilly which seems to be a large portion of the topic. ;)

I think since precedents are being utilized to rationalize actions taken by one mod here, then certain other precedents should be taken into consideration. The above logic applies here.

The people have spoken. Reset the poll while there is plenty of time left. Make an announcement to let everyone know that the poll has been reset and close the announcement.

If you are a fan of simplicity then you would implement the above.

Totaly Agree With The Above

It was not the action of a single mod. It has been a team decission (although not all team members where online to participate), and the moderator in question was asked to execute the decission since he had time available.

It was a decision made in haste. Unfortunately this decision is harming the community. Without a community there is no site nor a need for staff.

I may or may not agree with the action taken by a staff member here however there is a public outcry for its reversal. There is no public outcry or even a single member to support the action as of yet.

The numbers add up.